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Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology
at Johns Hopkins University. His main interests are in the fields of
comparative and historical sociology, world-systems analysis and economic
sociology. He has done research on processes of labor-market formation
and economic development in Southern Africa and Southern Europe, on
the origins and transformations of the world capitalist system, and
on the stratification of the global economy. Read
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Craig Calhoun has been President of the Social Science
Research Council since 1999. He is also University Professor of the
Social Sciences at NYU. Under Calhoun's leadership, the SSRC has been
reinvigorated as a leader of public social science, research on critical
social issues, and support for leading young researchers. He has launched
new work on knowledge institutions and innovation, on information technology,
on HIV/AIDS and social transformation, and on media, democracy and the
public sphere. Read more... |
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Hester Eisenstein is a Professor of Sociology at
Queens College and at the Graduate School and University Center, where
she does one-third of her teaching. From February 1996 to December 2000
she served as the Director of the Women's Studies Program at Queens
College. Her major publications include Inside Agitators: Australian
Femocrats and the State (Temple University Press, 1996); Gender Shock:
Practicing Feminism on Two Continents (Beacon, 1991); and Contemporary
Feminist Thought (G.K. Hall, 1983. Read
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Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a longtime labor and international
activist and the former President and chief executive officer of TransAfrica
Forum, a national non-profit organization organizing, educating and
advocating for policies in favor of the peoples of Africa, the Caribbean
and Latin America. Fletcher is also a founder of the Black Radical Congress
and is a Senior Scholar for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington,
DC. Read
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David Laibman is Professor of Economics at Brooklyn
College and the Graduate School, City University of New York. He received
a Ph.D. in Economics in 1973 at the Graduate Faculty of the New School
for Social Research in New York. His dissertation, The Invariance Condition
for Value-Price Transformation in a Linear, Non-Decomposable Two-Sector
Model, dealt with problems in Marxist value theory. Laibman teaches
economic theory, political economy, and mathematical economics, at the
undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels at CUNY. Read
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Lauren Langman received his PhD in Human Development
from the University of Chicago. Although he had planned a career in
psychology, as a result of participation in civil rights and anti war
movements, his interest shifted to sociology as a way of understanding
how social conflict was based on group membership and interests rather
than individual personality. As a result, his work as a sociologist
has always had an interdisciplinary focus largely concerned with the
relations of the historically instantiated social structure and culture
to the individual. Read
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Valentine Moghadam's areas of research are globalization,
transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship in the
Middle East, and women in Afghanistan. She has lectured and published
widely and has consulted with many international organizations. She
is a contributor to a 2001 report, coordinated by CAWTAR and the UNDP,
on the impact of globalization on women's economic conditions in the
Arab world and has also prepared a background paper on Islam, culture,
and women's rights in the Middle East for the UNDP's Human Development
Report 2004. Read
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Vijay Prashad is Professor and Director of International
Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. His most recent books are
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World (New Press,
November 2006) and (with Teo Ballve) Dispatches from Latin America:
Experiments Against Neoliberalism (South End Press, October 2006). He
is the author of ten other books, including two chosen by the Village
Voice as books of the year (Karma of Brown Folk, 2000; Everybody Was
Kung Fu Fighting, 2001). Read
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William Robinson is professor of sociology at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also affiliated with
the Latin America and Iberian Studies Program, and with the Global and
International Studies Program at UCSB. His main research interests lie
in the filed of macro and comparative sociology; globalization; political
economy; development; social change; political sociology; Latin America
and the Third World. Read
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Beverly J. Silver is a Professor in the Department
of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on
problems of development, labor, social conflict and war, using comparative
and world-historical methods of analysis. Her work recasts a variety
of issues in a broad spatial and temporal framework in order to identify
patterns of recurrence, evolution and “true novelty” in contemporary
processes of globalization. Read
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Saskia Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization
(including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration,
global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies,
and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational
conditions. In her research she has focused on the unexpected and the
counterintuitive as a way to cut through established “truths.” Read
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Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies
and Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT University. He is also
a Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center at the University
of Hawai'i-Manoa. His academic interests include global studies, political
and social theory, international politics, and theories of nonviolence.
His most recent publications include Globalism: Market Ideology Meets
Terrorism, 2nd ed.; Globalization: A Very Short Introduction; Gandhi's
Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power; and The Quest
For Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy. Read
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William K. Tabb taught Economics at Queens College
and in the Economics, Political Science and Sociology Departments at
the Graduate Center of the City University for many years. He is the
author of The Amoral Elephant: Globalization and the Struggle for Social
Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Monthly Review, 2001), and Unequal
Partners: A Primer on Globalization (The New Press, 2002). Read
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Immanuel Wallerstein is the former President of the
International Sociological Association (1994-1998), and chair of the
international Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social
Sciences (1993-1995). He writes in three domains of world-systems analysis:
the historical development of the modern world-system; the contemporary
crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of knowledge.
Books in each of these domains include respectively The Modern World-System
(3 vols.); Utopistics, or Historical Choices for the Twenty-first Century;
and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms.
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