Professor
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 725
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7
Tel.: 514-398-6850
Email: matthew.lange [at] mcgill.ca
Office Hours: Wednesday 10:30 - 12:00
Research Areas
Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Sociology, Ethnic Violence,听Development, Emotions.
Biography
(PhD, Brown University, 2004).听 Lange has been a professor at 91社区 since 2004.听 His work focuses on state building, nationalism, ethnic violence, development, colonial legacies, emotions, and comparative-historical methods. In addition to his articles and chapters, he has authored Lineages of Despotism and Development:听 British Colonialism and State Power (Chicago, 2009), Educations in Ethnic Violence:听 Identity, Educational Bubbles, and Resource Mobilization (Cambridge, 2012), Comparative-Historical Methods (Sage, 2013), and Killing Others: A Natural History of Ethnic Violence (Cornell, 2017), and is a co-editor of States and Development:听 Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of the State (Oxford, 2015).
Selected Publications
Books
Lange, Matthew.听 2017. Killing Others: A Natural History of Ethnic Violence. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Liebfried, Stephan, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John Stephens (eds.).听 2015.听听Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of the State.听 New York: Oxford University Press.
Lange, Matthew.听 2013.听听Comparative-Historical Methods.听 London: Sage.听
Lange, Matthew.听 2012.听Educations in Ethnic Violence:听 Identity, Educational Bubbles, and Resource Mobilization.听New York: Cambridge University Press.
Lange, Matthew.听 2009.听Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power.听Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lange, Matthew and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.). 2005.听States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance.听New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press.
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Book Chapters
Lange, Matthew.听 2019. "Resistance and Nationalist Violence: A Halsian Approach to Nation-Building in a Colonial Context." States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives. Francesco Duina (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 197-220.
Lange, Matthew.听 2015.听 鈥淪tate Formation and Transformation in Africa and Asia:听 The Third Phase of State Expansion.鈥澨�Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of the State.听 Stephan Liebfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy,听Frank Nullmeier,听and John Stephens (eds.).听 New York:听 Oxford University Press, 116-130.
Lange, Matthew. 听2015.听 鈥淪tates in the Global South:听 Transformations, Trends, and Diversity.鈥澨�Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of States.听 Stephan Liebfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy,Frank Nullmeier,听and John Stephens (eds.).听 New York:听 Oxford University Press, 673-688.
Lange, Matthew, and Klaus Schlichte.听 2015.听 鈥淓thnicity and State Transformation in the Global South.鈥澨� Pp. 763-778 in听Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of States.听 Stephan Liebfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy,听Frank Nullmeier,听and John Stephens (eds.).听 New York:听 Oxford University Press, 763-778.
Huber, Evelyne, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens.听 2015.听 鈥淚ntroduction:听 Transformations of the State.鈥澨�Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of States.听 Stephan Liebfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy, and John Stephens (eds.).听 New York:听 Oxford University Press, 1-32.
Huber, Evelyne, Matthew Lange, Stephan Leibfried, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens.听 2015.听 鈥淐onclusion:听 States Transforming.鈥澨�Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of States.听 Stephan Liebfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah Levy,听Frank Nullmeier,听and John Stephens (eds.).听 New York:听 Oxford University Press, 815-839.
Lange, Matthew.听 2013.听 鈥淲hen Does Nationalism Turn Violent?听 A Comparative Analysis of Canada and Sri Lanka.鈥澨�Nationalism and War.听 John Hall and Sinisa Malesevic (eds.).听 New York:听 Cambridge University Press, 124-144.
Lange, Matthew.听 2012.听 鈥淓ducation, Ethnonationalism, and Non-Violence in Quebec.鈥澨�Reading Sociology. Lorne Tepperman (ed.).听 Toronto: Oxford University Press, 122-126.
Lange, Matthew.听 2010.听 鈥淪tates and Economic Development.鈥澨�The Handbook of Politics:听 State and Society in Global Perspective.听 Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins (eds.).听 New York:听 Springer Publishers, 263-278.
Lange, Matthew.听 2010.听 鈥淪tate Formation, Consolidation and the Security Challenge: Why Developing Countries are Not Becoming Stronger and More Secure.鈥澨�Weak States and South Asia鈥檚 Insecurity Predicament, edited by T.V. Paul. Stanford University Press, 51-72.
Lange, Matthew.听 2006.听 鈥淎uthor鈥檚 Response.鈥澨�Colonialism and Imperialism:听 Between Ideologies and Practice. Diogo Ramada Curto and Alexis Rappas (eds.).听 Fiesole, Italy:听 European University Institute, 105-114.听
Lange, Matthew.听 2005. 听鈥淏ritish Colonial State Legacies and Development Trajectories:听 A Statistical Analysis of Direct and Indirect Rule.鈥澨�States and Development:听 Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance. Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Press, 117-139.
Lange, Matthew.听 2005.听 鈥淭he Rule of Law and Development:听 A Weberian Framework of States and State-Society Relations.鈥澨�States and Development:听 Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance. Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Press, 48-65.
Lange, Matthew and Dietrich Rueschemeyer.听听 2005.听 鈥淪tates and Development: An Introduction.鈥澨�States and Development:听 Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance. Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Press, 3-25.
Lange, Matthew and Dietrich Rueschemeyer.听 2005.听 鈥淪tates and Development: What Insight Did We Gain?鈥� Co-written with Dietrich Rueschemeyer.听听States and Development:听 Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance. Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan Press, 239-258.
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Articles
Lange, Matthew, Tay Jeong, and Charlotte Gaudreau. 2022. 鈥淎 Tale of Two Empires: Models of Political Community in British and French Colonies.鈥� Nations and Nationalism, 28 (3): 872-989.
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Lange, Matthew, Emre Amasyali, and Tay Jeong. 2022. 鈥淐ommunalizing Colonial Policies and Postcolonial Ethnic Warfare: A Multimethod Analysis of the British Empire.鈥� European Journal of Sociology, 62 (3): 337-379.
Lange, Matthew, Tay Jeong, and Emre Amasyali. 2021. "The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Warfare: Re-Examining the Impact of Communalizing Colonial Policies in the British and French Empires." International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 62 (2): 141-165.
Lange, Matthew. 2020. 鈥淎 Path-Dependent Approach to Communal Transformation: Recognizing Cognitive and Structural Views of Collective Community.鈥� Canadian Journal of Sociology, 45 (4): 313-35.
Quamruzzaman, Amm and Matthew Lange. 2016. "Female Political Representation and Child Health: Evidence from a Multilevel Analysis." Social Science & Medicine, 171: 48-57.
Lange, Matthew.听 2011.听 鈥淪ocial Welfare and Ethnic Warfare:听 Exploring the Impact of Education on Ethnic Violence.鈥澨�Studies in Comparative International Development, 46 (4): 372-396.
Gerring, John, Peter Kingstone, Matthew Lange, and Aseema Sinha. 听2011.听 鈥淒emocracy and Economic Policy:听 A Historical Perspective.鈥澨�World Development, 39: 1735-1748.
Lange, Matthew and Andrew Dawson.听 2010.听 鈥淓ducation and Ethnic Violence:听 A Cross-National Time-Series Analysis.鈥澨�Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 16: 216-239.
Lange, Matthew and Andrew Dawson.听 2009.听 鈥淒ividing and Ruling the World?听 A Statistical Test of the Effects of Colonialism on Postcolonial Civil Violence.鈥澨�Social Forces, 88: 785-818.
Lange, Matthew.听 2009.听 鈥淒evelopmental Crises:听 A Comparative-Historical Analysis of State Building in Colonial Botswana and Malaysia.鈥澨�Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 47: 1-27.
Lange, Matthew and Hrag Balian.听 2008.听 鈥淐ontaining Conflict or Instigating Unrest?听 A Test of the Effects of State Infrastructural Power on Civil Violence.鈥澨�Studies in Comparative International Development, 43: 314-333.
Lange, Matthew, James Mahoney, and Mattias vom Hau.听 2006.听 鈥淐olonialism and Development:听 A Comparative Analysis of British and Spanish Colonies.鈥澨�American Journal of Sociology, 111, 5: 1412-1462.
Lange, Matthew.听 2004.听 鈥淏ritish Colonial Legacies and Political Development.鈥澨�World Development, 32, 6: 905-922.
Lange, Matthew.听 2003.听 鈥淪tructural Holes and Structural Synergies: A Comparative-Historical Analysis of State-Society Relations and Development in Colonial Sierra Leone and Mauritius.鈥澨�International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 44, 4: 372-407.
Lange, Matthew.听 2003.听 鈥淓mbedding the Colonial State:听 A Comparative-Historical Analysis of State Building and Broad-Based Development in Mauritius.鈥澨�Social Science History, 27, 3: 397-23
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses:
SOCI 245听The Sociology of Emotions
SOCI 326 Political Sociology
SOCI 446 Colonialism and Society
Graduate Seminars:
SOCI 507 Social Change
SOCI 555 Comparative Historical Sociology
SOCI 602 Comparative-Historical Methods