Curriculum Vitae

(Updated June 2021)

Name

Keith D. Doubt

Date of Birth

April 23, 1954

Place of Birth

Camden, New Jersey

Academic Degree

Ph.D., York University, 1986, Sociology
Doctoral Dissertation--Acquaintance, Good Will, and the Problem of Knowing the Other

Professional Experience

  • Wittenberg University, Professor Emeritus, Fall 2020

  • Wittenberg University, Professor and Chair, Spring 2016-Spring 2020

  • Wittenberg University, Professor, Fall 2015

  • Wittenberg University, Professor and Acting Chair, Spring 2015

  • Wittenberg University, Professor, Fall 2012-Spring 2015

  • International University of Sarajevo, Cultural Studies, Visiting Professor, Spring 2014

  • Wittenberg University, Professor and Chair, Fall 2000-Spring 2012

Awards and Honors

  • Fulbright Specialist Award, 2020-2024

  • Title VIII Grant, State Department, 2019, Serbo-Croatian, Summer School, Sarajevo

  • Fulbright Award, Flex Grant, University of Tuzla, 2017, 2018, and 2019

  • Title VIII Grant, State Department, 2016, Serbo-Croatian, Summer School, Sarajevo

  • Title VIII Grant, State Department, 2014, Serbo-Croatian, Indiana University

  • Honorary Member, Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academic of Arts of Sciences, 2008

  • Distinguished Chair Fulbright Award, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Spring 2007

  • Diversity Award for Wittenberg Faculty Member, 2005

  • Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Student Senate Award (Imani Gospel Choir), 2004

  • Senior Fulbright Scholar, Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo, 2001

  • Social Theory Council Member, American Sociological Association, 1995-98

Publications Books

  • Sociocide: Reflections on Today's Wars. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.

  • Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Kinship and Solidarity in a Polyethnic Society with Adnan Tufekčić. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.

  • Through the Window: Kinship and Elopement in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014

  • Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia. New York: Fordham University Press. 2006.

  • Sociologija nakon Bosne [Sociology after Bosnia]. Sarajevo: Buybook Publishers. 2003.

  • Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Press. 2000.

  • Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1996.

Journal Editor

Editor of “Duh Bosne / Spirit of Bosnia,” an international, interdisciplinary, bilingual, online journal. The journal has been publishing quarterly since January 2006.

Articles

  • “Serbian Folklore and Belgrade Politics: Kumstvo and its Betrayal” in The Western Balkans: Cooperation, Geopolitics, and Economic Transformations and Relations, edited by Muhidin Mulalić, Emel Topcu, and Jahja Muhasilović (Sarajevo: International University of Sarajevo, 2022).

  • “Flying Flags at Wedding in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Nationalism and the Limits of Flag Power,” Nationalities Papers with Amna Tuzović and Alem Hamzić, 1-22. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.58

  • “The Politics of Forgiveness and Bearing Witness after a Genocidal War: Three Short Films from Bosnia-Herzegovina" in Remembrance and Forgiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence, edited by Ajlina Karamehić-Muratović and Laura Kromjak (London: Routledge, 2020).

  • “Is Ratko Mladić Miserable?” Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters, July 10, 2019

  • “Political Reflection on Đorđe Balašević’s Ballad, ‘Ne Lomite Mi Bagrenje’” Spirit of Bosnia / Duh Bosne, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2019.

  • “Sociocide.” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Second Edition. Edited by George Ritzer and Chris Rojek. New York: Wiley, 2019.

  • "Srebrenica and Demagogues," Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters, July 20, 2018.

  • "School Shooters and Privilege," Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters, March 27, 2018.

  • “Panethnicity and Social Solidarity in Bosnia-Herzegovina” with Harry Khamis and Adnan Tufekčić. East European Quarterly. Vol. 45, No. 1-2, March-June 2017.

  • "March of Peace," Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters, July 17, 2017. “Eulogy for Bernie,” Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters, August 2016.

  • "The Meaningfulness of Jelena in the Work of Ivo Andrić" with Genevieve Tripp (Wittenberg student), translated by Biljana Djordjević Mironja, in the annual publication entitled Sveske Zadužbine Ive Andrića (Journal of the Ivo Andrić Foundation), 2015. [The article first appeared in New Zealand Slavonic Journal, Vol. 46 (2012)]

  • “Bearing Witness and the Limits of Photojournalism: Ron Haviv in Biljeljina” with Martin Lukk (Wittenberg student) Human Rights Quarterly 37 (2015) 629-936.

  • “Collective Destruction,” Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters, October 2014.

  • “Ivo Andrić’s Jelena as a Non-Representative Image” with Genevieve Tripp (Wittenberg student). New Zealand Slavonic Review, vol. 46 (2012)

  • “Ebooks, Deep Reading, and Cultural Lag.” Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination. Vol. 4 (2013). Republished in Befrois: Intellectual Jousting in Republic of Letters, July 9, 2013

  • “Elopements of Bosnian Women.” The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2012).

  • “Friendship in Plato’s ‘Lysis’” with Michael Sauder (Truman State student) in Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2012) May.

  • “Solipsizam ispričan dostojanstveno: Refleksije o romanu Derviš i smrt [Solipsism Narrated Magnanimously: Reflections on Death and the Dervish]” in Meša Selimović’s Work, edited by Zdenko Lešić and Juraj Martinović, Special Edition, Novi Izraz, Vol. 38. Sarajevo: Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2010.

  • “Grčki Duh u Poeziji Maka Dizdara” [The Greek Spirit in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar] in Slovo o Maku [Essays on Mak]. Sarajevo: Fondacija Mak Dizdar, 2008.

  • “Destructive Secrets and Destructive Consequences: Carla Del Ponte and the World Court Decision.” Helsinki Charter: Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, No. 113-14, November-December 2007

  • “Social Order without Scapegoating.” Forum Bosne, Vo. 48. 2009.

  • “War in Iraq: Is it Sociocide?” with Jeff Boucher (Wittenberg student). Forum Bosne, “Unity and Plurality in Europe, Part II.” Vol. 39, No. 7, 2007

  • “Schizophrenia,” “Bosnia,” & “Sociocide.” Entries in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology:

  • The Definitive Sociology Reference Source, 2007.

  • “Scapegoating and the Simulation of Mechanical Solidarity in Former Yugoslavia: “Ethnic Cleansing” and the Serbian Orthodox Church.” Humanity and Society, special issue, “Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Lessons and Legacies of Mass Atrocity,” edited by Ronald J. Berger and Paula Mohan (Vol. 31, No. 1, February 2007, pp. 65-82).

  • “Socratic Medicine for Radovan Karadzic” Odjek, Autumn-Winter, 2004. [English Edition].

  • "Evil and the Ritual of Shame: A Crime Against Humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Janus Head, Philosophy Journal, Winter 2004.

  • "Hamlet and Friendship." Shakespearean Criticism. Volume 82, Summer 2004. Published by Gale Group and edited by Michelle Lee. [Essay first appeared in Hamlet Review in 1995.]

  • “Sramota i Zapadni Odgovor Bosni” [Shame and the Western Response to Bosnia], Odjek, Fall- Winter, 2003

  • "Intellektualna Izdaja i Bosanskohercegovacka Muka" [Intellectual Betrayal and Bosnia- Hercegovina's Suffering], Odjek, Fall-Winter, No. 3-4, 2002, Sarajevo.

  • "What is the Evil of War Crimes? The Ethical Requirement of Burial and its Transgression in the War Bosnia-Herzegovina" Peace, Conflict, and Development, Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 2002).

  • “Journalism and Modern Ethics: Tim Judah and Roy Gutman in Bosnia” Forum Bosnae: Culture, Science, Society, Politics: Quarterly Review. Special edition of selected essays titled “Life at the Crossroads” edited by Ivan Lovrenovic and Francis R. Jones. 11/01 (2001). International Forum Bosnia: Sarajevo.

  • “The Critique of Utilitarianism in Structure and Gorgias,” in Zur Aktualität eines Theorieprogramms, ed. Helmut Staubmann & Harald Wenzel, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. (Sonderband 6, 2000).

  • “O nepravdi postmodernizama,” [On the Injustice of Postmodernism] Novi Izraz. Sarajevo. (1999).

  • “Moral i Politika,” [Morality and Politics] Dijalog (2) Sarajevo. (1999).

  • “Dworkin’s Moral Hermeneutics and Sociological Theory.” Social Science Journal. (Vol. 35, No. 3, July 1998).

  • “‘We Had to Jump Over the Moral Bridge’: Bosnia and Pathetic Hegemony of Face-work” in The Conceit of Innocence, edited by Stjepan Mestrovic, Texas A & M University Press. (1997).

  • “‘Mother is not holding completely respect’: Making social sense of schizohrenic writing” with Maureen Leoncrd, Laura Muhlenbruck, Sherry Teerlinck, and Dana Vinyard (Truman State students) Human Studies, Vol. 18, No, 1. 1995

  • “A Burkean Hermeneutics for Understanding the Social Character of Schizophrenic Language." Symbolic Interaction. (Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 1994).

  • "The Person and the Limit of Empiricism." The Personalist Forum. (Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 1994).

  • "Mead's Theory of Self and Schizophrenia." Social Science Journal. (Vol. 29, No. 3, July 1992).

  • "A Theoretical Note on Simmel's Concept of Acquaintance." Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior. (Vol. 20, No. 3, September 1990).

  • "Autonomy and Responsibility in Social Theory." Current Perspectives in Social Theory. (Vol. 10, 1990).

  • "The Pedagogy of Tact in Theoretical Discourse." Phenomenology + Pedagogy. (Vol. 8, 1990). "Garfinkel before Ethnomethodology." The American Sociologist. (Vol. 20, Fall 1989).

Recent Reviews

  • Review of The Theory of Social Pulsation by Komšić. International Sociology Reviews.

  • Review of Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia,
    by Eric Gordy. Human Rights Quarterly, republished in Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters titled “Morality and Discourse in Serbia,” August 2014

  • Review of Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee in Berfrois, Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters titled “Frontline Ethnography,” May 2013.

  • Review of Investigating Srebrenica: institutions, facts, responsibilities by Isabelle Delpla, Xavier Bougarel, and Jean-Louis Fournel for Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 41, Issue 4, 2013

  • To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica’s Missing by Sarah Wagner. In Slavic Review.

  • The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories, and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society. Edited by Xavier Bougarel, Elissa Helms, and Ger Duijzings. Ashgate Publishing. In Slavic Review.

  • The Serbian Project and its Adversaries: A Strategy of War by James Gow. Montreal: McGill- Queen's University Press, 2003. In Slavic Review.

Journal Reviewer

Sociological Theory
American Journal of Sociology

Recent Public Lectures and Conference Presentations

  • “Political Ritual and Kinship in Belgrade,” Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo, July 2019.

  • “Prijatelji (in-lawship) and Kumovi (ritual kinship) in Former-Yugoslavia,” October 27, 2016, Dimensions of Antagonisation of Cultures in Contemporary Europe, University of Wroclaw, Poland

  • “The Cultural Tradition of Godfather-hood (Kum) and Its Presence in Contemporary Serbian Politics,” October 5, 2016, Saint Louis University

  • “Kinship Variations and Ethnic Identity,” October 6, 2016, Fontbonne University

  • “Preserving Prijatelji Before and After Genocide,” “SREBRENICA 1995-2015: EVALUATING THE LEGACY AND LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF GENOCIDE,” Sarajevo – Tuzla – Srebrenica (Potočari): 9 – 11 July 2015.

  • “Bosnia's Kin in Turkey and the Cultural Importance of the Affinal Relation Prijatelji.” International Conference on Education, Culture, and Identity, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 3013

  • “Ebooks, Deep Reading, and Cultural Lag.” International Conference of Slavic Librarians on Librarianship. Publishing. Bookselling: Dilemmas in E-reading, April 2013, Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina.

  • “On the Lure of the Pariah’s Logic.” Sixth International Conference on Unity and Plurality in Europe in the panel, “Europe’s Internal and External Others,” Invited paper. Mostar, Bosnia- Herzegovinia. August 2, 2011

  • “Solipsism Narrated Magnanimously: Reflections on ‘Death and the Dervish.’” Conference Jubilee on the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Mesa Selimovic. Hosted by Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and P.E.N. International, Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina. Invited paper. April 26th, 2010.

  • “Elopements and the Ritualized Development of Affinal Relations among Rural Bosniaks.” “Days of BHAAAS in BH.” Invited paper. Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Invited paper. October 28th – 30th, 2009.

  • “The Serbian Orthodox Church in Serbia: Ethnic Cleansing as Scapegoating and the Simulation of Mechanical Solidarity.” American Sociological Association. Regular Paper Session. New York, New York. August 2007

  • “Destructive Secrets and Destructive Consequences: Carla del Ponte and the World Court Decision.” Conference, “Reacting to genocide before it’s too late – Genocide studies and its prevention.” Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. July 2007

  • “Habits of Heart and the American Television Series, ‘The Simpsons.’” Lecture. American Studies Seminar. Hosted by the Austrian Fulbright Commission. Altenmarkt, Austria. April 2007

  • “Connecting Cultures: Setting up Internet-Based Distance Learning Courses.” Lectures in Bihac, Banja Luka, Tuzla, Mostar, and Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sponsored by the Office of Public Affairs, United States Embassy, Bosnia-Herzegovina. October 2005

  • "The Politics of Scapegoating: A Critique for the Sake of Democracy in Southeastern Europe." Graduate Seminar on "Social Welfare, Multiculturalism, and Democracy." Dubrovnik, Croatia. April, 2004.

  • "Reflections on War as Sociocide." Croatian Sociological Association Meeting, Sociology of War, December 4, 2002, Zagreb, Croatia.

Recent Courses

  • SOCI 101 Introduction to Sociology for Nursing Students with a focus on medical

    sociology


  • SOCI 201 War, Identity, and Justice, sociology of war course taking a comparative view


  • SOCI 301 American Social Character, application of sociological studies to different television series 


  • SOCI 380 Identity, Self, and Society, with intensive service learning with people suffering mental illness at Springfield NAMI


  • Honors 300: Sarajevo: Surviving Urbicide 


  • Interdisciplinary Course for School of Continuing Education, What is Friendship? 


  • SOCI 498 Senior Thesis, Revised Senior Thesis Capstone course giving it a more applied and less academic approach 


Campus Contributions

  • Task Force on Secret Societies, 2017-2018

  • Faculty Hearing Board on Academic Freedom and Tenure, Fall 2018, Chair 2019-Spring 2020

  • Faculty Endowment Fund Board, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Community Contributions

  • Board Member, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Springfield, Ohio, Vernon Center

  • Supporter of Dayton Peace Accords Committee and Dayton Peace Museum

  • Member of Christ Church Episcopal, Springfield Ohio, Vestry Member .