(Updated August 2012)
Name
Keith D. Doubt
Academic Degree
Ph.D., York University, 1986, Sociology
Doctoral Dissertation–Acquaintance, Good Will, and
the Problem of Knowing the Other
Professional Experience
2012-Present Wittenberg University
Professor
2000-2012 Wittenberg University
Professor and Chair
1988-2000 Truman State University
Associate Professor of Sociology
Awards and Honors
Honorary Member, Bosnian-Herzegovinian 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
Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia. New York: Fordham University Press. 2006.
Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1996.
Journal Editor
Duh Bosne / Spirit of Bosnia an international, interdisciplinary, bilingual, online journal. Published quarterly since January 2006.
Articles
“Friendsip in Plato’s Lysis” with Michael Sauder. Luvah: Journal of the Creative Imagination, Vol. I No. 1, 2012
“Solipsism Narrated Magnanimously: Reflections on Death and the Dervish” in Meša Selimović’s Work, edited by Zdenko Lešić and Juraj Martinović, Special Edition, 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, “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, 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).
“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).