 Resat Kasaba
Distinguished Teaching Award
Department: Associate Professor, Jackson
School of International Studies; 13 years at UW.
Courses Taught: SIS 200 (his most famous class) States and Capitalism:
The Origins of the Modern Global System; Introduction to International Political
Economy, Middle East and the World Economy; Ethnicity and Nationalism; Contemporary
Sociological Theory; Social Change in the Third World; Change in International
Affairs; States & Capitalism in the Modern World; Political Economy
of Development in the Middle East, Comparative Studies in Ethnicity and
Nationalism; World Cities
Achievements: Despite teaching classes known among students for
their difficulty and demanding workloads, he pulls in consistently superior
scores on student evaluations. He is the chair of the International Studies
Program and has revised and improved graduate and undergraduate curricula.
His soft-spoken lecturing style and riveting lecture topics always draws
a crowded auditorium of students.
Quote: "Resat Kasaba is one of the great teachers the University
of Washington has had in the last generation. He is the best I have observed
in a quarter century of teaching, and that statement ranks him above such
well-known figures as Michael Walzer and Joseph Nye."--International
Studies Professor Joel Migdal
Biography: B.S., Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey,
1976; M.A., sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1978;
Ph.D., sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1986. | 