Karen Barkey

Karen Barkey is the Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity at the Othering & Belonging Institute and a professor of sociology at University of California, Berkeley. She is also the director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) at UC Berkeley. She was previously a professor of sociology and history at Columbia University. She was awarded the Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean studies at IMéRA for 2021–2022.

Barkey was awarded the Germaine Tillion Chair of Mediterranean studies at IMéRA, for 2021–2022. IMéRA is the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, and a member of the French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study.

In March 2018, the exhibition opened at the New York Public Library, Graduate Center, CUNY, and Morgan Library & Museum in New York. An exhibition catalogue, Shared Sacred Sites: A Contemporary Pilgrimage, co-edited with Dionigi Albera and Manöel Pénicaud, was published by CUNY Publications in 2018.

Part of the project is a traveling international Shared Sacred Sites Exhibition, which was hosted at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseilles, France (2015), the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, Tunisia (2016), Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, and Yeni Cami (also known as New Mosque (Thessaloniki) in Thessaloniki, Greece. An exhibition catalogue, Shared Sacred Sites in the Balkans and in the Mediterranean, co-edited with Dionigi Albera, Dimitris Papadopoulos and Manoël Pénicaud, was published by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art Publications in 2018.