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"Professor Lange (Ph.D., Brown University, 2004) has been a professor at McGill since 2004. His work focuses on state-building, nationalism, ethnic violence, development, colonial legacies, and comparative-historical methods. In addition to his articles and chapters, he has authored Lineages of Despotism and Development: British Colonialism and State Power (Chicago, 2009), Educations in Ethnic Violence: Identity, Educational Bubbles, and Resource Mobilization (Cambridge, 2012), and Comparative-Historical Methods (Sage, 2013) and is a co-editor of States and Development: Historical Antecedents of Stagnation and Advance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of the Transformations of the State (Oxford, 2015)".