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Curriculum Vitae
Name Thomas Ehrlich Reifer Address University of San Diego, Sociology Department 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110-2492 Office: 619-260-7422 Fax: 1-619-849-2267 Email: [email protected]
Academic Career
Degrees
Ph.D., August 2000, Sociology, State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton.
MA, 1993, Sociology, SUNY Binghamton.
BA, 1989, Sociology, University of California (UC) Santa Cruz. Honors in Sociology. Honors, Senior Thesis.
Professional Experience
Fall 2004-present, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of San Diego. http://www.sandiego.edu/sociology/ Affiliated Faculty, Ethnic Studies Program. http://sandiego.edu/es/faculty.php
Fall 2004-2006, Assistant Research Scientist, University of California, Riverside, 25%.
Winter 2002-Fall 2004, Assistant Research Scientist and Associate Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS), University of California, Riverside (UCR), and faculty member, Department of Sociology. Managing editor, Journal of World-Systems Research, now the official peer-reviewed electronic journal of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association.
October 2002-Fall 2004, Associate Director, Program on Global Studies (POGS), UCR Branch of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), a multi-campus research unit of the University of California. Coordinator of speaker and colloquium seminar series on “Globalization, Inequality and Transnational Social Movements.”
May 2001-June 2003, Senior Research Associate, Focus on the Global South, Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.focusweb.org/
July 2000-July 2001, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston College. 2
1998-1999, Instructor, Department of Sociology, Worcester State College.
Research
Thomas Reifer and Christopher Chase-Dunn (co-principal investigators): "The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation: Waves of Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st Century." http://irows.ucr.edu/research/glbelite/globeliteprop03.htm National Science Foundation Sociology Program, Award: Award Date: February 3, 2004. Award No. SES-0350819. Proposal No. SES-0350819. Award Effective April 1, 2004-March 31, 2006. $152,312.
Co-principal investigator, with Edna Bonacich & Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Labor Solidarity and Transportation: Global Capital and Labor in the Pacific Rim,” Funded by the University of California, Institute for Labor and Employment, 2003/2004. $30,000.
Co-principal investigator, with Edna Bonacich and Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Labor and Logistics in the Pacific Rim: Changing Structures of Production and Immigration in the Mexico-Southern California-China Triangle,” funded by the Ernesto Galarza Applied Research Center, University of California, Riverside, 2003/2004. $1,000. http://egarc.ucr.edu/vision.html http://egarc.ucr.edu/projects.html
Research & Institutional Affiliations
2006-2009, Associate Fellow, Transnational Institute: A Worldwide Fellowhship of Committed Scholar-Activists http://www.tni.org/ http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?text10=fellows_reifer&menu=131/
September 2004-present, Research Associate, Institute for Research on World-Systems (IROWS), University of California, Riverside.
Summer 2004-present, Member, Industry Studies Community, Affiliate of the Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Program, Committee for Industry Studies.
May 1, 2007-April 30, 2012. 1991-2004, Research Associate at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, SUNY Binghamton (Binghamton University). Participated in and wrote papers for two Research Working Groups (RWG), for a two part project funded by the MacArthur Foundation, headed by Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein, entitled ‘Hegemony and Rivalry in the World-System: Trends and Prospective Consequences of Geopolitical Realignments, 1500-2025’. The results of this research were published in two separate volumes that have since been translated into numerous foreign languages.
1987-2001, 2006-present, Research Assistant for former State, Defense Department official, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg. Assistance in research and writing, including for Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Viking Press, 2002. 3
1992-2000, Research Assistant for Harvard University Professor Margaret Brenman- Gibson.
1991, Junior Specialist, UC Santa Cruz. Primary responsibilities included assistance with research and writing for Professor John Borrego.
1991, Junior Specialist, UC Santa Cruz. Primary responsibilities included research assistance for Professor Rebecca Klatch.
University Service and Professional Activities
Member, Advisory Committee, 2005-present, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego (NGO with Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations). http://peace.sandiego.edu/
Curriculum Committee, University of San Diego, 2009.
On Our Campus Committee, University of San Diego, 2008-present.
WASC Committee, University of San Diego, 2008.
Gender Studies Advisory Committee, University of San Diego, 2007-present.
Women's Center Advisory Committee, University of San Diego, 2005-2006.
Member, Catholic Social Teaching Task Force, Basic Education Subcommittee, University of San Diego, Fall 2005-January 2006.
Co-Director, Gender Studies Program, University of San Diego, May 2005-January 2006.
Member, Search Committee for Concentration in Crime, Justice, Law & Society, Department of Sociology, University of San Diego, Summer 2005.
Chapter Adviser, Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), International Sociology Honor Society, University of San Diego, 2005.
Elected Treasurer, Research Committee on Economy and Society, International Sociological Association, for a four-year term, Fall 2002-2006.
National Science Foundation, Division of Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences, FY 2004 Human and Social Dynamics Agents of Change-Social & Political Change (AOC- SPC) Advisory Panel, June 24 - 25, 2004. 4
January 2002-August 2004, Advisory Council, Program on Global Studies (POGS), UCR of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), a multi-campus research unit of the University of California.
January 2002-August 2004, Associated Faculty, Political Economy and Global Social Change (PEGSC), Specialized Program of Study within the Sociology graduate program, UC Riverside. PEGSC focuses on classical and contemporary political economy, social movements, and the historical development of social systems. http://www.sociology.ucr.edu/pegsc/index.html
2004, Program Faculty, Labor Studies Minor, UC Riverside.
Summer 1985, 1989, Administrative Assistant, UC Irvine, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Summer Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control.
Scholarships, Awards, Scholarly Nominations
Scholarships
Four consecutive appointments as Teaching or Research Assistant, 1991-1995, Department of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton.
Scholarly Awards & Nominations
Award, Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Committee. Course release time in 2008-2009 for scholarly research project, "Earth, Wind & Fire."
Award, Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Committee. Course release time in 2006-07 for scholarly research project on "Violence, Profits and Power."
Award, Faculty Research Grant (FRG) Committee. Course release time in 2005-06 for scholarly research project on "War and the American System."
Award, Robert Jay Lifton Fellowship (for the Study of the Nuclear Age), $2,500, Center on Terrorism, John Jay College, 2004-2005, funded by the Jennifer Simons Foundation, http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/terrorism/rjl.asp
2001, Winner of the American Sociological Association's (ASA) Section on the Political Economy of the World-System Book Award for Giovanni Arrighi & Beverly J. Silver, with Iftikhar Ahmad, Kenneth Barr, Shuji Hisaeda, Po-keung Hui, Krishnendu Ray, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, Miin-wen Shih & Eric Slater, Chaos & Governance in the Modern World System, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
2001, Nominated for the Dr. Terence K. Hopkins, Dissertation Award, Political Economy of the World-System Section, American Sociological Association. 5
1993, 2000, Nominated for a Junior Fellowship, Harvard University’s Society of Fellows.
1995-1996, Dissertation Year Fellowship, SUNY Binghamton.
Publications
Edited Books
Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer, editors, Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era, Series, Studies in Critical Social Science, Brill Academic Press, 2005. Paperback version forthcoming from Haymarket Press, 2009.
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, ed., Globalization, Hegemony & Power: Antisystemic Movements and the Global System, Boulder, London, Paradigm Publishers, 2004. http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/node/71? PHPSESSID=9b3ef42d11a93ce57ca0762b712af855
Books in Progress
Global Crises & the Challenges of the 21st Century, edited by Thomas E. Reifer, Paradigm Press, forthcoming, 2010.
The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation: Waves of Globalization and Global Elite Integration, 19th to 21st Century, Thomas E. Reifer, Kenneth Barr, Christopher Chase-Dunn, coordinators, with contributing authors.
Lawyers, Guns & Money.
Violence, Profits and Power.
Blown Away: US Militarism, Hurricane Katrina & the Challenges of the 21st Century
Earth, Wind & Fire.
September 11th, Terrorism & the Globalization of Human Rights.
War & the American System.
Forthcoming Journal Articles & Book Chapters
“The National Security State Corporate Complex (NSSCC) & the Changing Social Foundations of the Global System,” in Eric Wilson, ed., National Security Agencies & the Dual State, Pluto Press, Government of the Shadows Series, 2010. 6
“American Exceptionalism & the Burgeoning Criminal Injustice Complex: 21st Century Perspectives,” in Proceedings from the Critical Criminology Mini-conference, Karen Glover, ed., forthcoming.
"Unlocking the Black Box of Globalization," in Nelson Lichtenstein, ed., The Traveling Box: Containers as the Global Icon of our Era, New Press, forthcoming.
"Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis," in Marjorie Cohn, ed., The United States of Torture, New York University Press, forthcoming.
Chapter 1, "Beyond Divide & Rule? From the Washington to the Beijing Consensus," forthcoming in Geopolitics and Trajectories of Development: The Cases of Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Germany and Puerto Rico, Institute for East Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, University of California Berkeley.
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
“Blown Away: U.S. Militarism & Hurricane Katrina,” Hillary Potter, ed., Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina, Lexington Books, 2007, pp. 197-223.
"Militarization, Globalization, & Islamist Social Movements: How Today's Ideology of Islamaphobia Fuels Militant Islam," in Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Volume V, Issue 1, Fall 2006 (though published Summer 2007), Special Issue on "Othering Islam: Proceedings of the International Conference on "The Post-September 11 New Ethnic/Racial Configurations in Europe & the United States: The Case of Islamaphobia," pp. 51-72. French translation, "La militarization, la globalization et les mouvements sociaux islamistes: comment l' ideologie de l'Islamaphobie actuelle alimente l'Islam militant," and published as part of an expanded book, Mahamed Mestiri, Ramon Grosfoguel & El Yamine Soum, ed., Islamophobie: dans le monde moderne/Islamaphobia: New Post-911 racial/Ethnic Configurations: the Problem and prafctical Effects of Islamaphobia," internationale institute of islamic thought IIIT, France, Berkeley, Department D'Etudes Ethniques, 2008.
Thomas Reifer, "From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina: War, the 21st Century & America's Future," in Destroy & Profit: Wars, Disasters, & Corporations, 2006, Focus on the Global South, pp. 65-78. http://www.focusweb.org/pdf/Reconstruction-Dossier.pdf
Chris Chase Dunn, Andrew Jorgenson, Thomas Reifer and Shoon Lio, "The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitative Reflection," Sociological Perspectives (Journal of the Pacific Sociological Association), Volume 48, Issue 2, 2005, pp. 233-254. 7
Thomas Reifer, “Latin@ Century, Pacific Century: 21st Century Possibilities in World- Systems Perspective,” in Ramon Grosfoguel, Nelson Maldonado-Torres and Jose David Saldivar, ed., Latin@s in the World-System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st Century U.S. Empire, Boulder, Co: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, Ch. 12, pp. 199-211. Sociology/Ethnic Studies: Political Economy of the World-System Annuals, Vol. XXVII; series editor: Immanuel Wallerstein.
Thomas Reifer, “Globalization, Democratization & Global Elite Formation in Hegemonic Cycles: A Geopolitical Economy,” in Jonathan Friedman & Christopher Chase- Dunn, eds., Hegemonic Declines, Paradigm Publishers, 2005, Ch. 7, pp. 183-201.
Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer, “Introduction: The Effort to Transform Globalization: Historical and Contemporary Struggles,” in Bruce Podobnik and Thomas E. Reifer, editors, Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era, Series, Studies in Critical Social Science, Brill Academic Press, 2005, pp. 1-7. Reprinted in paperback by Haymarket Books, 2009.
Thomas Reifer, "Torture, Human Rights and the Challenges Facing the Global Peace and Justice Movements," in Bruce Podobnik and Thomas E. Reifer, editors, Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era, Series, Studies in Critical Social Science, Brill Academic Press, 2005, pp. 157-165. Reprinted in paperback by Haymarket Books, 2009.
Thomas Reifer, Christopher Chase-Dunn & Andrew Jorgenson "The U.S. Trajectory: Quantitative and Historical Reflections," Faruk Tabak, ed., Allies as Rivals: The U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System, Paradigm Publishers, 2005, pp. 55-71.
Thomas Reifer, “Hegemony, State-Corporate Globalization and Antisystemic Movements: Contending Theoretical and Historical Approaches,” in Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, ed., Globalization, Hegemony & Power: Antisystemic Movements and the Global System, Bouder, Co: Paradigm Publishers, 2004, pp. 1-15.
Paul M. Lubeck and Thomas Reifer, “The Politics of Global Islam: U.S. Hegemony, Globalization and Islamist Social Movements,” in Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, ed., Globalization, Hegemony & Power: Antisystemic Movements and the Global System, Boulder, Co: Paradigm Publishers, 2004, pp. 162-180.
Thomas Reifer, “Labor, Race & Empire: Transport Workers & Transnational Empires of Trade, Production & Finance,” in Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration, Edited by Gilbert Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Dorothy Fujita-Rony,Vivian Price, David Smith, and Linda Trinh Võ, Routledge Press, 2004, pp. 17-35.
Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer, “The Globalization Protest Movement in Comparative Perspective,” Journal of World-Systems Research, “Special Issue: Global 8
Social Movements Before and After 9-11,” Bruce Podobnik & Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, guest editors, Volume X, Number 1, Winter 2004. http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php
Thomas Reifer, “Globalization & the National Security State Corporate Complex (NSSCC) in the Long Twentieth Century,” in Ramon Grosfoguel & Ana Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez, eds., The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century: Global Processes, Antisystemic Movements and the Geopolitics of Knowledge, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 3-20. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, Number 227. Studies in the Political Economy of the World-System. Immanuel Wallerstein, Series Adviser.
Thomas Reifer, “Globalization, Militarization & US Policy Towards the Asia-Pacific & the Philippines: Democratic Struggles, Overseas Expansion & International Solidarity Movements,” Human Rights Forum, 10th Anniversary Edition, Volume 11, No. 1, July- December 2001, pp. 79-116.
Thomas Reifer, “The Global Significance of Korea’s Cold War Division System & the International Movement for Reconciliation,” in Brid Brennan, ed., Melting the Iceberg: Ending the Cold War in the Korean Peninsula & the Search for Global Peace, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Transnational Institute in cooperation with Focus on the Global South, 2001, pp. 15-32. http://www.tni.org/reports/asia/asem6.htm
Thomas Reifer, “Student Union,” Campus, Inc.: Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower, Prometheus Books, 2000, pp. 358-370.
Giovanni Arrighi, P.K. Hui, Krishnendu Ray, and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer “Geopolitics & High Finance,” in Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, et. al., Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999, pp. 37- 96. Translated editions in Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese.
Thomas Reifer and Jamie Sudler, “The Interstate System,” in Terence K. Hopkins & Immanuel Wallerstein, Coordinators, The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the World System, 1945-2025, New Jersey: Zed Press, 1996, pp. 13-37. This book is part of Zed Titles on Globalization, Studies in International Political Economy. Translated editions in Korean, Italian, Japanese, Turkish and Chinese.
Dictionary Entries
"Decolonization," in Bryan Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 125.
"Development Theory," in Bryan Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 133-135.
"Diaspora," in Bryan Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 142. 9
"Modernization," in Bryan Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 394-396
"World-Systems Analysis," in Bryan Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 682-685.
Forthcoming Encyclopedia Entries
“Hegemony,” in Phillip O’Hara, ed., International Encyclopedia of Public Policy: Governance in a Global Age, four volumes, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Military-Industrial Complex,” in Phillip O’Hara, ed., International Encyclopedia of Public Policy: Governance in a Global Age, four volumes, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Berlin, East & West,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 65-69.
“Coordinator of Information,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 168-169.
“Lyndon B. Johnson,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 347-350.
“Journalism and Propaganda,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 352-357.
“Literature and Film,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 394-397.
"Middle Ages,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 428-430.
“Otis Pike,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 496-497.
“Franklin D. Roosevelt,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 534-538.
“Satellites,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 554-559.
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“Taiwan,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 663-634.
“Harriet Tubman,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 649-650.
“United States of America,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 663-671.
“Woodrow Wilson,” in Rodney B. Carlisle, ed., Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe, 2005, pp. 709-710.
"Corporations," in William A. Darity, editor, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2008, Volume 2 (of 9 Volumes), pp. 139-140.
Book Reviews & Review Essays
“Review of David Luban, Legal Ethics & Human Dignity, Cambridge University Press, 2007, Law & Society Review, Volume 43, Number 2, June 2009, pp. 449-451.
“Review of Immanuel Wallerstein, ed., The Modern World-System in the Longue Duree, in section on "Global Dynamics & Social Change," Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 36, 3, May, 2007, pp. 290-292.
“Review of Laurie Wermuth, Global Inequality and Human Needs: Health and Illness in an Increasingly Unequal World,” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, (33: 1), January 2004, pp. 105-106.
“Review of Mike Davis, Dead Cities: And Other Tales, in City and Community (Journal of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the ASA), Vol. 2, Issue 4, December 2003, pp. 369-370.
“For Further Reading,” in “1968—Remembering & Pondering After Three Decades,” Special Issue of Peacework: Global Thought & Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change, New England Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee, Issue 284, April 1998, pp. 19-20.
“Review of Meredith Woo-Cumings and Michael Loriaux, eds., Past as Prelude: History in the Making of a New World Order, in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews,” Vol. 23, Number 6, November 1994, pp. 840-841.
Interviews, Letters, Comments
"Interview on the Question of Torture," The Vista, USD Student Newspaper, February 15, 2007, p. 15. 11
Herbert Docena and Thomas Reifer. Interview with Dr. Chalmers Johnson, Critical Asian Studies, 35: 2, June 2003, pp. 301-313.
“Comment,” Contemporary Sociology, Volume 37, #5, September 2008, pp. 501-502.
Electronic Bulletins
"War, the 21st Century, and America's Future: From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina," http:// www.focusweb.org/Article698.html A shortened edited version of this piece appeared in Focus on Trade 113, Part II, September 2005, an Electronic Bulletin, published by Focus on the Global South. http://www.focusweb.org/Article696.html
“Culture & Power: Globalisation, the West & the Islamic Resurgence,” in Asia Europe Meeting Watch, “Understanding Islamic Politics & Culture,” No. 77, July 2002, Electronic Bulletin, ASEM Watch Online Archives, Transnational Institute. http://www.tni.org/asem-watch/archives.htm
Magazine Articles and Chapters in Handbooks
“Is Copying the US Model of Capitalism a Good Answer for Japan?,” Weekly Ekonomisuto, (Japanese Economist, the leading economic weekly in Japan, issued by Mainichi Newspaper), “Special Double Issue,” Tokyo, Japan, December 23/January 2002/2003. Translated by Dr. Shigeo Nakao, Professor of Economics, Osaka City University, Japan.
“Geopolitics, Globalization and Alternative Regionalisms: Possibilities for Global Peace, Democracy and Social Justice,” in Paul Scannell and Brid Brennan, ed., Asia Europe Crosspoints, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Transnational Institute Handbook, 2002. http://www.focusweb.org/publications/2002/geopolitics-globalisationand-alternative- regionalisms.pdf
“Connections That Keep Fires Burning,” in “1968—Remembering & Pondering After Three Decades,” Special Issue of Peacework: Global Thought & Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change, New England Regional Office of the American Friends Service Committee, Issue 284, April 1998, pp. 8-9.
Guest Editorship
Bruce Podobnik & Thomas Reifer, guest editors. Journal of World-Systems Research, “Special Issue on Global Social Movements Before and After 9-11,” Volume X, Number 1, Winter 2004. http://jwsr.ucr.edu/index.php 12
Other
Thomas Reifer, "Introduction," JWSR Mini-symposium: “Peter Gowan and the "Capitalist World-Empire,"” Journal of World-Systems Research, Volume 10, Number 2, Summer 2004, p. 471. http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol10/number2/pdf/jwsr-v10n2gs- gowan.pdf
Thomas Reifer, Asia-Pacific Security & U.S.-led Neoliberal Globalization and Militarization in Historical Pespective. http://www.focusweb.org/publications/2001/Asia-pacific-secuirty.html
Public Sociology
With Gail Perez, Challenging Deportation Nation(s), March 19, 2009, Transnational Institute News http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=19333
September 11th, Terrorism & the Globalization of Human Rights, September 2008, Transnational Institute News http://www.tni.org/detail_page.phtml?act_id=18652
Radio Programs (Partial listing only)
Informal consultant, "Intelligence Update," "Forum with Michael Krasny," July 17, 2007. The program assesses recent intelligence reports suggesting that al- Qaeda networks have strengthened, and that terrorist threats are as high as they've ever been since 9/11. Host: Michael Krasny Guests: Bruce Riedel, former CIA agent and senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East studies at the Brookings Institution Christopher Libertelli , senior director of Government Relations for Skype Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson chair-holder in International Affairs and Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and visiting professor at the American University in Cairo Melvin Goodman, former CIA agent and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy Peter Bergen, Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation, CNN's terrorism analyst and author of "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden" http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R707170900 13
Consultant and co-producer, "California's Spending Priorities in the 21st Century: Education versus Prisons," with Maya Harris, Executive Director, ACLU, Northern California; Peter Sacks, Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Higher Education, University of California Press, 2007; India Williams, Youth Leader, Education Not Incarceration City Visions Radio, KALW, 91.7 FM, National Public Radio affiliate, San Francisco, California, June 11, 2007 http://www.cityvisionsradio.com/archive007.html
Submissions, Proposed Panels
“The Emerging Pacific Triangle & the Transformation of the Global Labor Movement: 21st Century Perspectives,” Paper proposal for the conference on “Work & Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico & the US,” for proposed panel, “The Emerging Pacific Triangle & the Transformation of the Global System,” University of California, Los Angeles, October 7-9, 2009.
“(Walter) Benjamin & (Paul) Klee’s Angel in Critical Girardian Perspective,” Abstract accepted for the Colloquium on Violence & Religion Conference, UC Riverside, June 2008.
Forthcoming Presentations & Conference Participation
“Action & Agency in the Modern World-System: A Geopolitical Economy,” Panel on World-Systems Analysis, Social Science History Association, Long Beach, California, November 12-15, 2009.
Discussant for Panel: “Overcoming Inequalities In and Between China, Mexico and the US: Labor Conditions and Struggles,” with Alejandro Alvarez Bejar, Robert Weil, Liu Xue Dong, Ximena Valentina Echenique, & John Borrego, for the conference on “Work & Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico & the US,” Sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, University of California, Los Angeles, October 7-9, 2009.
Conference Papers, Presentations, Roundtable Participation, Discussion Groups
“Giovanni Arrighi’s Geohistorical Capitalism,” Panel on Giovanni Arrighi, Conference on “The Systemic Crisis of Capitalism: Dynamics of Global Crisis, Antisystemic Movements & New Models of Hegemony,” International Conference Honouring the Work of Giovanni Arrighi. Participants include Samir Amin, Perry Anderson, Amiya Bagchi, Walden Bello, Robert Brenner, Gillian Hart and many others. Madrid, Spain, May 25-29, 2009 http://madrid2009arrighi.blogspot.com/
Panel on the “The Financial & Military Underpinnings of Global Power Relationships,” Conference on “The Systemic Crisis of Capitalism: Dynamics of Global Crisis, 14
Antisystemic Movements & New Models of Hegemony,” International Conference Honouring the Work of Giovanni Arrighi. Madrid, Spain, May 22-29, 2009
“US Militarism & the “Myths of Empire” in the Longue Duree: From the Anglo- American Hegemonic Transition to the Rise & Demise of the New Deal World Order, late 19th to early 21st Century,” Plenary Panel on “Theorising Militarism in the 21st Century,” Thursday, May 14, “Militarism: Political Economy, Security, Theory,”: An International Conference Organized by the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, 14-15, May 2009. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, the Network of Activist Scholars of Politics & International Relations (NASPIR), the British International Studies Association, the Transnational Institute & the University of Sussex.
Closing Remarks, “World-Systems Analysis & the Challenges of the 21st Century: Critiques, Revisions, Agendas, Explorations,” Conference on World-Systems Analysis & the Challenges of the 21st Century, April 25, 2009, USD.
Panel on “World-Systems Analysis & the Challenges of the 21st Century: Critiques, Revisions, Agendas, Explorations,” Conference on World- Systems Analysis & the Challenges of the 21st Century, April 25, 2009, USD.
“NAFTA in the Longue Duree: A World-Systems Perspective,” Presidential Session, Panel on “Thinking About NAFTA 15 Years On,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 8-11, 2009.
With Jodie Lawston, “Rethinking American Exceptionalism: The Ever-Expanding Carceral State & the Challenges of the 21st Centuury,” panel on “The Carceral State: Trajectories of Punishment in the 21st Century,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 8-11, 2009.
Thomas Reifer & Christopher Chase-Dunn, “World-Systems Analysis and Charles Tilly’s Sociology of Inequality: 21st Century Perspectives,” Panel on “Charles Tilly’s Sociology of Inequality: 21st Century Perspectives,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, April 8-11, 2009.
Panel and Open Discussion on Religion and Politics, part of a week of service and awareness to commemorate the 29th anniversary of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero's assassination, March 26, 2009, USD.
“American Exceptionalism in Global Perspective: Structural Underpinnings of the Ever- Expanding “Criminal Injustice Complex,” “Critical Criminology & Justice Studies Mini- Conference,” February 5, 2009, Island Palms Hotel & Marina, San Diego, California. 15
“The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons & the Question of Abolition,” Panelist & Chair, “Nuclear Weapons After Bush: Prospects for Abolition: A Invitational Conference Supported by the Jennifer Simons Foundation, Robert Jay Lifton Fellowship Program, Center on Terrorism, John Jay College, January 16, 2009.
Panel on film, Crash, University of San Diego, Maher, Saloman Hall, October 1, 2008.
“Prison Abolitionism & the Challenges of the 21st Century,” Panel on “Anti-Prison Activist & the Academic World: What Can We Do,” Critical Resistance 10th Anniversary Conference, Laney College, September 27, 2008.
“Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Jr., & the “Three Interrelated Evils: Racism, Economic Exploitation & Militarism” Panel on Vietnam, Conference on “The Great Rehearsal: The World Revolution of 1968,” University of San Francisco, September 20, 2008.
Panel on “Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: A Teach-In on the Constitutional Crisis,” 10-11 am, “National Teach-In on the Iraq War,” UC Berkeley, September 19, 2008.
"The Changing Social Foundations of Global Conflict & Cooperation," San Diego State University, Monday, September 8, 2008, Sponsored by San Diego State University College of Extended Studies.
With Jennifer Kuiper, Film Viewing and Discussion of 9 Start Hotel (The Story of Palestinians Working in Israel Illegally), San Diego Public Library, City of San Diego, Sunday, July 20, 2pm, 2008; 3rd Floor Auditorium, Central Library, 820 E Street in Downtown San Diego.
“Global Warming, Environmental Racism & Struggles for Peace & Environmental & Social Justice: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century,” American Indian Recruitment Program, University of San Diego, July 14, 2008.
Discussant, Panel on Diversity, Sponsored by the University of Diversity Committee, University of San Diego, April 26, 2008.
Discussant, Panel on Michael Moore's Sicko, USD's Oscar Romero Center for Faith in Action, University Ministry, April 24, 2008.
Participant, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Peace & Conflict Discussion Group, "Climate Change," April 23, 2008.
Discussant, Movie, Juno, University of San Diego, April 9, 2008. 16
"Asian Regionalism & Global Power in the Longue Durée,"Andre Gunder Frank's Legacy for Critical Social Science,” University of Pittsburgh, April 11-13, 2008.
“After the American Century: The US & the Changing Social Foundations of the Global System,” Global Review Colloquium, Illinois State University, March 6, 2008.
“Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century: The US in the Global System,” International Studies Seminar Series, Illinois State University, March 5, 2008.
"Cross-Border Media Roundtable: Reporting on the U.S.-Mexican Border, USD, Co- Sponsored by the Trans-Border Institute (TBI) and the Public Relations Department of USD, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, Room 1, 8:30-11am, February 6, 2008.
"Out of the Box: Containerization, Global Supply Chains, & the World Market," Conference on "The Traveling Box: Containers as the Global Icon of Our Era," Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor & Democracy, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, November 8-10, 2007.
Roundtable on Just War Theory & Terrorism, Institute for Law & Philosophy, USD Law School, University of San Diego, September 28-29, 2007.
Panel on book, Selling U.S. Wars, edited by Achin Vanaik, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 17, 2007, Sponsored by the Transnational Institute.
"East Asian Monetary Integration Ten Years After the Financial Crisis," Panel on New Challenges to the International and Regional Financial Institutions, Transnational Institute Fellows Meeting, "The Power of Money," June 15, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
"The Resurgence of Finance Capital in World-Systems Perspective," Transnational Institute Fellows Meeting, "The Power of Money," June 14, 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Author meets critic, discussing Dr. Harriet Baber's, "The Multicultural Mystique: The Liberal Case Against Diversity," University of San Diego, April 27, 2007, Sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, USD.
"Divide & Rule: The Cold War Division System in Global Perspective," Conference on Coloniality & Modernity, Center for Korean Studies, U.C. Berkeley, April 26, 2007.
Film and teach-in on "The Question of Torture," with Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, former Commander General, Abu Ghraib Prison, and Professor of Law, Thomas Jefferson Law School and President of the National Lawyers Guild, Marjorie Cohn. University of San Diego, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. This event, part of San Diego's Torture Abolition Month, was sponsored by the Committee to Abolish 17
Torture, San Diego Coalition for Peace & Justice, Activist San Diego, PDA Metro San Diego, Survivors of Torture International, the National Lawyers Guild, the Ethnic Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, the Center for Christian Spirituality and the Social Issues Committee at the University of San Diego. February 11, 2007.
“Coalitions and Conflict: Elite Integration and War in the 19th Century” American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 2006. With Global Elites Research Group (see below).
“Global Conflict & Elite Integration in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries,” American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 2006. With Global Elites Research Group http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows27/irows27.htm
With Judith Liu, "Who Killed New Orleans? An Inquiry, from the War Against the Cities to Hurricane Katrina," Session on Cities in the Political Economy of Global Capitalism, Joint Session with Section on Community and Urban Sociology, and the Political Economy of the World System Section, American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 2006.
With Kenneth Barr, Shoon Lio, Christopher Schmitt, Anders Carlson, Kirk Lawrence, Jonathan Krause, Yvonne Hsu and Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Global Conflict & Elite Integration in the 19th & early 20th Centuries," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, August 11, 2006.
Global Elites Research Group: Christopher Chase-Dunn, Kenneth J. Barr, Anders Carlson, Rebecca Giem, Yvonne Hsu, Linda Kim, Kirk Lawrence, Shoon Lio, Richard Niemeyer, Christine Petit, Thomas E. Reifer, and Christopher Schmitt, “The Precursors of Conflict: Contours of Elite Integration in the19th Century,” Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, California, April 20-23, 2006.
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas E. Reifer, Richard Niemeyer, and Anders Carlson, “Trade Networks and the Contours of Conflict: A World War I Case Study," Pacific Sociological Association, Hollywood, California, April 20-23, 2006.
"Hurricane Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster," Sociology of Disasters Panel, California Sociological Association, Sacramento, California, November 11-12, 2005.
"The Debate on American Exceptionalism/El 'Excepcionalismo Americano' En Debate," Public Presentation on "Ideologies of Empire: International Perspectives on the New World (Dis)order/Ideologias Imperiales: Perspectives Sobre Nuevo (Des) Orden Mundial," Transnational Institute, Uruguay, November 3, 2005.
Chris Chase-Dunn, Thomas Reifer, Ken Barr, Anders Carlson, Chris Schmitt, Shoon Lio and Rick Niemeyer, “Trade and the flag: integration and conflict in waves of globalization and deglobalization,” Presented at the American Sociological Association Conference, Session on Transnational Sociology, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005. 18
"The EU Army, NATO, and Europe as a Military Power," Conference, "Another Europe is Possible: How Do We Build It?" Transnational Institute, May 23-24, 2005. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
"Europe between East and West: Relations with the US and China," Fellows Meeting, Transnational Institute, May 20-22, 2005. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Chris Chase-Dunn, Thomas Reifer, Shoon Lio, Chris Schmitt, Anders Carlson, Richard Niemeyer, "Changing Contours Of Global Integration Since 1840" Paper presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Redondo Beach, CA, February 16-20, 2005.
“The Political Economy of Organized Violence & the Analytical Foundations of the World-Systems Perspective: Towards a New Paradigm,” Section on the Political Economy of the World-System, Panel on "Organized Violence and the Modern World- System," 99th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004.
"Walden Bello's 'Deglobalization' and the Global Peace and Social Justice Movement: Comparative Historical Perspectives on Globalization & Resistance at the Turn of the Millennium," Panel on "Globalization & Resistance: Past & Present," for Thematic Session on "Publics and Their Shifting Borders," 99th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004.
"Curriculum Development Workshop," 2004 Teaching Nonproliferation Summer Institute, University of North Carolina, June 11-15, 2004.
Sloan Workshop Series in Industry Studies, “Marketing, Merchandising, and Retailing: The Role of Intermediaries in Global Value Chains,” Co-Organized by Dr. Gary Hamilton of the Department of Sociology, and Dr. Suresh Kotha, Management and Organization Department, School of Business Administration, University of Washington, Seattle, June 7-8, 2004.
Presentation for Panel on “Responding to US Nuclear Policy in a Climate of Violence,” Conference on Charting a New Course for US Nuclear Policy, International Law Symposium, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, May 13-15, 2004.
“Demographics of Empire: Latin@s, the United States, and the Global System.” Panel on "Democracy, the U.S. Empire & Racial/Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century: Apartheid or Diversity?," Conference on Latin@s in the World-System," Political Economy of the World-System XXVIII Annual Conference, Section of the American Sociological Association, April 22-24, 2004.
“The Political Economy of Organized Violence,” University of San Diego. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, USD, February 17, 2004. 19
“Thinking About the Classics (and Contemporary Theory),” University of San Diego. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, February 16, 2004.
“Organizing for the American Century: The State-Corporate Nexus and the Rise and Demise of the New Deal World Order,” University of California, Riverside. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, January 26, 2004.
"Organizing for the American Century: U.S. State-Corporate Power Networks in Comparative Geohistorical Perpsective," University of California, Irvine. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, December 9, 2003.
"State-Corporate Power Networks and the Global Political Economy," University of Utah, Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, November 18, 2003.
"Transportation Workers, Global Restructuring and the New Landscape of Corporate Power," for Session on Restructurings' Threat to the Labor Movement, Labor Notes Conference, Detroit, Michigan, September 12-14, 2003.
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Andrew Jorgenson, Thomas Reifer, Rebecca Giem, Shoon Lio, and John Rogers, “The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitative Reflection," Session on Globalization, American Sociological Association, August 16-19, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Asia in the US Global Strategy,” Paper presented at the Transnational Institute’s Fellows Meeting,” Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 16-17, 2003.
Thomas Reifer, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, Shoon Lio & John Rogers, "The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: Quantitative and Comparative Historical Reflections," Political Economy of the World-System Conference, Section of the American Sociological Association, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., April 25-26, 2003.
“Lawyers, Guns and Money: Transnational Classes, Social Movements and US Hegemony,” Panel on “The Transnational State, Transnational Classes, and Transnational Social Movements,” Conference on “Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continuing Debates, New Directions, and Neglected Topics,” Co-Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara and the UK-based Global Studies Association, May 1-4, 2003.
Thomas E. Reifer, Edna Bonacich and Christopher Chase-Dunn, “Labor Solidarity and Transportation: Global Capital and Labor in the Pacific Rim,” Conference on “Labor, Race and Empire,” panel on "Labor, Race and Identity in the Neo-Liberal Context,” University of California Irvine, March 6-7, 2003. 20
“The Dynamics of Conflict and Nuclear Proliferation: From the Origins of the Global Arms Race to the Present,” Panel on Nuclear Proliferation After September 11th,” Asia Europe People’s Forum. Sponsored by the Asia Europe People’s Forum and Danish civil society organizations. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19-23, 2002.
“Geopolitics, Globalization and Alternative Regionalisms: Possibilities for Global Peace, Democracy & Social Justice,” Asia Europe People’s Forum. Sponsored by the Asia Europe People’s Forum and Danish civil society organizations. Copenhagen, Denmark, September 19-23, 2002. http://www.focusweb.org/publications/2002/geopolitics- globalisationand-alternative-regionalisms.pdf
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, Shoon Lio, Thomas Reifer, John Rogers, “Structural Globalization: 1800-2000,” American Sociological Association, Chicago, August 16-19, 2002. This research is supported by the National Science Foundation Sociology Program. http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows10/irows10.htm
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas Reifer, “US Hegemony & Biotechnology: The Geopolitics of New Lead Technology,” Session 8, “New Technologies & the Environment,” International Studies Association, Research Committee on Environment & Society, XV ISA World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002. IROWS Working Paper #9. http://www.irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows9/irows9.htm
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, Shoon Lio, Thomas Reifer, and John Rogers, “The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitative Reflection,” XV International Studies Association, World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, Session on “American Primacy or American Hegemony?” Research Committee on Comparative Sociology, organized by Neil Smelser and Mattei Dogan, Wednesday, July 10, 2002. IROWS Working Paper #8. http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows8/irows8.htm
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer & Christopher Chase-Dunn, “19th Century Global Elites: A Comparative World-Historical Approach,” “Panel on “Thinking Globally: Elites, Movements & International History,” All-UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Conference, “World History: Research, Teaching, Agendas,” UC Riverside, May 18-19, 2002.
“Anglo-American Trajectories of Globalization, Militarization, & Race, Class & Gender Formation in Comparative World-Historical Perspective,” Coloniality Working Group Conference, “World-Historical Approaches to Colonial Modernities/Coloniality, SUNY Binghamton, May 9-11th, 2002. 21
“Hegemonic Transitions, Globalization & Global Elite Formation,” Political Economy of World-Systems Conference, Section of the American Sociological Association, Institute for Research on World-Systems, UC Riverside, May 3-4, 2002.
“Globalization, Empire & the National Security State Corporate Complex: 19th Century Origins, 21st Century Efflorescence,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 12, 2002.
“Globalization, Empire & the Militarized National Security State Corporate Complex: 19th Century Origins, 21st Century Efflorescence,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Boston College, April 11, 2002.
“Beyond Injustice & Violence: Globalization, September 11th & the Challenges Facing the Global Justice and Peace Movements,” Panel on “The New Business of War: Security & the Global Economy,” with Amnesty International Secretary General, Irene Kahn, World Policy Institute Fellow William Hartung and others, International Conference, Public Eye on Davos/World Economic Forum, New York, January 31- February 3, 2002.
“State-Corporate Globalization & the Global Peace & Justice Movements: Towards a New Alliance,” Public Forum on Missile Defense and Security after September 11- Emerging Agendas for the Movement Around Globalization & the Peace Movement,” with Dan Plesch and others, Sponsored by the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. November 29, 2001.
“Landscapes of Globalization & Militarization,” University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sponsored by the Department of International Relations, October 21, 2001.
“Globalization, Militarization & the Question of Violence,” Sophia College, Bombay, India, October 13, 2001.
“US-led Globalization & Path-Dependent Militarization,” Beijing Broadcasting Institute, China, Sponsored by the International Communications College, Center for International Relations, September 14, 2001.
“Globalization, Social Movements & US Policy Towards the Asia-Pacific & China in World-Historical Perspective,” Sponsored by the Institute of World Economics & Politics,” Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, September 13, 2001.
“Geohistorical Capitalism & US-China Relations in the Longue Duree,” Sponsored by The Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Contemporary China, Beijing, China, September 13, 2001.
“Democratic Struggles, Overseas Expansion & International Solidarity Movements,” Philippine Civil Society and International Solidarity Partners: Strengthening Local & 22
Global Advocacy Initiatives, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, August 21, 2001.
“Transnational Social Movements for Global Peace, Justice & Korean Reconciliation,” Panel on Korean Reconciliation & Reunification & US Civil Society. The International Conference on Korean Reconciliation & Reunification for Global Peace, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, August 13-14, 2001, Sponsored by Focus on the Global South, Nautilus Institute, Transnational Institute, Asian Regional Exchange on New Alternatives, American Friends Service Committee.
“Korean Division & Reconciliation, Northeast Asian Security & US-led Neoliberal Globalization & Militarization in Historical Perspective,” Panel on Korean Reunification & Northeast Asian Regional Security. The International Conference on Korean Reconciliation & Reunification for Global Peace, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, August 13-14, 2001. Published in the Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 180-198.
“Neoliberal Globalization & Militarization in the Asia-Pacific Region,” Sponsored by the Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 6, 2001.
“Violence, Money & Power: Globalization & Global Race, Class & Gender Formation,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, March 23, 2001.
“Pathologies of Violence, Profits & Power: Epidemics of Race, Class and Gender Inequality in an Age of Globalization,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, March 22, 2001.
“Lawyers, Guns & Money: Globalization & the American Century,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University, December 8, 2000.
“Globalization, Violence & Ethics: An Unexplored Terrain,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Research on World-Systems, UC Riverside, November 27, 2000.
“Lawyers, Guns & Money: A Devil’s Advocate Perspective on Unlocking the Black Box of ‘Globalization,’” Section on Sociology of Law. Transnational Perspectives on Law. Co-sponsored by the Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association 95th Annual Meeting, August, 2000.
“Globalization & the National Security State Corporate Complex (NSSCC) in the Long Twentieth Century,” XXIV Annual Political Economy of the World-System Annual 23
Conference, Section of the American Sociological Association, Boston College, March, 2000.
Giovanni Arrighi and Thomas Reifer, “Geopolitics and High Finance: Does World Power Still Come Out of the Barrel of the Gun?,” XXII Annual Political Economy of the World-System Conference, Section of the American Sociological Association, Northwestern University, Ill., March, 1998.
“The Japanese Phoenix and the Transformation of East Asia: World-Economy, Geopolitics and Asian Regionalism in the Long Twentieth Century,” International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February, 1995.
“The Changing Spatial Configuration of the Interstate System,” Roundtable on Comparative Hegemonic Transitions at the American Sociological Association Conference, Washington, D.C., August, 1995, and International Studies Association, Northeastern Regional Conference, Providence, RI, November, 1994.
Other Conference Participation
Discussant, "American Exceptionalism," Seminar on Book Project on "Ideologies of Empire," (later published as Selling US Wars, edited by Achin Vaniak, 2007), Transnational Institute, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 4-5, 2005.
Discussant, Hans Morgenthau Symposium, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, University of San Diego, September 19-20, 2004.
Discussant, Session on "Commodity Chains & Labor in the World-Economy," for Conference on Globalization in World-Systems: Mapping Change Over Time," sponsored by The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Riverside: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Chancellor, Institute for Research on World- Systems, and Program on Global Studies, February 7-8, 2004.
Presider, Session on "Hegemony and Power Configurations in Interstate Systems," for Conference on Globalization in World-Systems: Mapping Change Over Time," sponsored by The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Riverside: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Chancellor, Institute for Research on World- Systems, and Program on Global Studies, February 7-8, 2004.
Session Co-Organizer and Discussant, “US Power & the Contemporary World-System,” American Sociological Association, August 16-19, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.
Discussant, “Regular Session: World-Systems,” American Sociological Association, August 16-19, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia. 24
Session Organizer, Contemporary Research on Globalization Panel, Pacific Sociological Association, Pacific Sociological Association, Pasadena, California, April 3-6, 2003.
Session Co-Discussant, Movements for Radical Democracy: Historical Legacies & Contemporary Challenges, California Sociological Association Meeting, October 18-19, 2002.
Panels Organized
“Charles Tilly’s Sociology of Inequality: 21st Century Perspectives,” Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, California, April 8-11, 2009.
Conferences Organized
With the cooperation of the USD Sociology Department, “World-Systems Analysis & the Challenges of the 21st Century,” Annual Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association Conference, April 23-25, 2009, University of San Diego, with participants including Bahar Davary, The (Beyond) the “Triangle of Emancipation” Collective, Enrique Dussel, Daniel Ellsberg, Wally Goldfrank, Ramon Grosfoguel, John Halaka, Michelle Jacob, Olga Garcia Echeverria, Alberto Pulido, Saskia Sassen, J.J. Schlichtman, Immanuel Wallerstein and many others.
Other
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Discussion Group/Salon, 2007-present.
Review Activity
Book Reviews, City and Community; Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews; Law & Society.
Manuscript Reviews, Caribbean Studies.
Manuscript Reviews, Critical Sociology.
Manuscript Reviews, Globalizations.
Manuscript Reviews, International Studies Perspectives: A Journal of the International Studies Association.
Manuscript Reviews, Journal of World-Systems Research.
Manuscript Reviews, Political Power & Social Theory.
Manuscript Reviews, Theory & Society. 25
Manuscript Reviewer, Pine Forge Press/SAGE Publications.
Manuscript Reviewer, Temple University Press.
Editorial Boards
Journal of World-Systems Research, Official peer-reviewed journal of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association, 2007 present.
Previous Editorial Board Participation
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism: A Journal of Socialist Ecology.
Selected Courses
Introduction to Sociology, Contemporary & Classical Sociological Theory, Social Change: Global Perspectives, Collective Behavior & Social Movements, USD, various years since 2004.
With Belinda Lum (Sociology, Affiliated Faculty, Ethnic Studies), Alberto Pulido (Director, Ethnic Studies Program) & Leonora Simonovis (Languages & Literatures). Sociology 101 & Ethnic Studies 100 Equivalent. Immigration & Ethnicity in Literature & Music: Movement, Sounds & Words. Cluster Preceptorial, USD, Fall 2009.
Honors 341. (Beyond) The “Triangle of Emancipation”: The Black Freedom Struggle in Global Perspective. Co-taught with Jesse Mills, Ethnic Studies Program, USD, Winter- Spring 2009.
Sociology 380 (Cross-listed with Ethnic Studies), “Collective Behavior (and Social Movements), Winter-Spring 2009.
Sociology 494. Special Topics in Sociology. War, Morality and Social Change, University of San Diego, Spring 2005. Undergraduate course.
Sociology 243J, Comparative and World Historical Sociology, Department of Sociology, UC Riverside, Fall, 2002. Graduate level course. This course fulfills a requirement for the Sociology specialization in Political Economy of Global Social Change. Undergraduate course.
Sociology 048, Social Change: Global Perspectives, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Spring, 2001. Undergraduate course. 26
Sociology 622, Advanced Studies in Comparative Historical Sociology, Spring 2001, Department of Sociology, Boston College. Graduate course.
Sociology 722, Black Social Thought in the Early 21st Century: Politics, Culture & Social Change. (This seminar also included presentations from Visiting Scholars). Department of Sociology, Boston College, Spring, 2001. Graduate course.
Sociology 047, Social Change in History: An Introduction to Comparative & Historical Sociology, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Fall, 2000. Undergraduate course.
Sociology 650, Introduction to Social & Political Economy, Department of Sociology, Boston College, Fall, 2000. Graduate course.
Soc. 310, Formal Organizations, Department of Sociology, Worcester State College, Spring, 1999. Undergraduate course.
Soc. 110, Cultural Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Worcester State College, Spring, 1999. Undergraduate course.
Soc. 100, Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, Worcester State College, Fall 1998, Spring, 1999. Undergraduate course.
Poverty & Social Structure, Department of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton, 1994. This course was for the School of Education and Human Development. Undergraduate course.
Other Teaching and Research Experience
1991-1995, Graduate Student Teaching and Research Assistant for Dr. Giovanni Arrighi, SUNY Binghamton. Primary responsibilities included academic research, as well as curriculum design, lecturing, leading section and grading for introductory course, “Social Change: Global Perspectives.”
1994, Instructor, Department of Sociology, SUNY Binghamton. Designed and taught course in School of Education and Human Development.
1988-1991, Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz. Primary responsibilities included curriculum design, leading discussion sections, grading papers and writing evaluations for undergraduate classes in eight courses, including Mass Media and Community Alternatives, as well as Introduction to Community Studies (this last class fulfilled the UC’s diversity requirement), both as an undergraduate and after earning my BA.
Other
Interim Director, Interfaith Peace Ministry, 27
Orange, Orange County, California, 1984.
Professional Memberships
American Geophysical Union American Society of International Law American Sociological Association California Sociological Association Center for the Study of the Presidency Colloquium on Violence & Religion International Biogeography Society International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies International Sociological Association National Writers Union Pacific Sociological Association Social Science Research Network Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations World Affairs Council of San Diego
References
Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Former Director, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton Senior Research Scholar, Yale University Department of Sociology Yale University P.O. Box 208265 New Haven, CT 06520 1-203-432-3313 [email protected]
Dr. Christopher Chase-Dunn, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems University of California, Riverside Department of Sociology Riverside, California, 92521-0419 1-909-787-2062 [email protected]
Dr. Walter Goldfrank, Department of Sociology, 28
UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 1-831-423-5136 [email protected]