DEPARTM ENT OF SOCIOLOGY • B OSTON UNIVERSITY • 9 6 - 10 0 CUMMINGTON ST • BOST ON, MA 02215 PHONE 443.983. 1325 • FAX 617.353.48 37 • n [email protected] N I C O L E M . ASCHOFF
EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Dissertation Title: Globalization and Capital Mobility in the Automobile Industry Advisors: Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University, Boston, MA September 2010 – August 2013
Ph.D., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD May 2010
M.A., Sociology: Program in Comparative Sociology and International Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD May 2005
B.A., History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ May 2002, Graduated with High Honors
Date of Birth: 02/08/1980 Location of Birth: Phillipsburg, NJ
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Globalization / Labor and labor movements / Global political economy / Africa and development / Comparative-historical Sociology
GRANTS AND HONORS
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant 2007-2009
Center for Africana Studies Summer Travel Grant 2005 Johns Hopkins University
PCSID Summer Travel Grant 2005 Johns Hopkins University
Global Studies Institute Research Fellowship 2005 Johns Hopkins University
Henry Rutgers Scholar 2002 Rutgers University TEACHING
Introduction to Globalization 1/2010 – 5/2010
Latin America in the World System (Teaching Assistant) 2/2006 – 5/2006
Latin America and Latinos in the U.S. (Teaching Assistant) 9/2005 – 12/2005
Introduction to Sociology (Teaching Assistant) 2/2004 – 5/2004
Introduction to Social Statistics (Teaching Assistant) 9/2003 – 12/2003 9/2004 – 12/2004
RESEARCH
Papers and Book Chapters
Arrighi, Giovanni, Nicole Aschoff and Ben Scully. 2010. “Accumulation by Dispossession and its Limits: The Southern African Paradigm Revisited,” Studies in Comparative International Development , Dec., 10.1007/s12116-010-9075-7.
Aschoff, Nicole. “The Global Automobile Industry and Crisis,” Socialist Register 2012. (Forthcoming)
Aschoff, Nicole. “Contours of Change: Geographical Restructuring in the North American Automobile Industry” (Under review)
Aschoff, Nicole. “The rise and demise of vertical production: Examining the role of finance in the restructuring of the US auto industry.” (In preparation)
Aschoff, Nicole. “Rolling out of South Africa: A study of capital mobility.” (In preparation)
Additional Research Projects
2005 – 2008 Collaborative research with Giovanni Arrighi analyzing development in Southern Africa.
2003 – 2004 Collaborative research with Beverly Silver studying historical patterns of labor unrest and the military.
2002 – 2003 Collaborative research with Beverly Silver studying patterns of transportation worker unrest using the World Labor Group Database.
2002 Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Northern Rhodesian Copper Miners in the World System.
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
Invited Talks
2 / 2010 “The Social Impacts of Finance: A Study of the Automobile Industry,” Socialist Register Workshop, York University, Toronto, ON. 11 / 2009 “Globalization and Capital Mobility in the Automobile Industry,” Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.
11 / 2009 “Capital Mobility and Globalization in the Automobile Industry,” Cornell University, ILR School, Ithaca, NY.
3 / 2008 “New Data on the Net Flow of Jobs out of and into the US Auto Industry,” Panel: US Manufacturing: Restructuring or Disappearing? Left Forum, The Cooper Union, New York, NY.
2 / 2008 “Job Movement in the North American Auto Industry,” Political Science Departmental Seminar, York University, Toronto, ON. Presentations
8 / 2009 “The Rise and Demise of Vertical Production: A Case Study Examining the Role of Finance in the Restructuring of the US Auto Industry,” Panel: Finance and Financialization , American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: Political Economy of the World System Mini-Conference, San Francisco, CA.
3 / 2009 “Accumulation by Dispossession and its Limits: The Southern African Paradigm Revisited,” Seminar on International Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
2 / 2006 “Alloy on Wheels: Analyzing Capital Flight from South Africa,” Institute for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
8 / 2005 “State-Firm Dynamics in the South African Automobile Component Industry.” PEWS Roundtable Presentation, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
8 / 2003 “Patterns of Labor Unrest Amongst Transportation Workers in the Twentieth Century.” PEWS Roundtable Presentations, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.
2003 Institute for Global Studies, Paper Discussant, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Committee on the US Social Forum: Political Economy of the World System Section 2010
Student Representative: Political Economy of the World System Section 2005
Faculty Search Committee 2005 Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
Graduate Standards Committee 2004 Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University