Peter Bratsis 410 West End Avenue, #5D New York, New York 10024 212-799-3623 [email protected]
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor of Political Science (2012-present) Department of Social Sciences Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. City University of New York, Political Science, 2002 Dissertation: Everyday Life and the State: A Materialist Revision of State Theory Committee: Stanley Aronowitz, John Bowman, David Harvey, Irving Leonard Markovitz and Frances Fox Piven
B.A. University of Maryland, Political Science and Economics, 1991
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
2006 Everyday Life and the State, Paradigm Publishers. Reviewed in: Cultural Sociology; Constellations; Historical Materialism. a. Spanish translation, forthcoming, Prometeo Libros.
2002 Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered (edited with Stanley Aronowitz), University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed in: Radical Society; Global Social Policy; Canadian Journal of Political Science; Review of Radical Political Economics; TheGlobalSite. a. Chinese translation, 2008, Jilin People’s Press.
Refereed Journal Articles
forthcoming “Political Corruption in the Age of Transational Capitalism: From the Relative Autonomy of the State to the White Man’s Burden,” Historical Materialism. a. Spanish translation, forthcoming, Revista Herramienta
forthcoming, “Post-Political Sovereignty: Between Markets and Animals,” Critical Sociology.
2010 “Legitimation Crisis and the Greek Explosion,” International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 34.1, 190-196.
2010 “Manifesto For A Left Turn: An Aristotelian-Marxist Critique,” Situations, Vol. 3 #2, 91-99.
2010 “The Greek Crisis - Politics, Economics, Ethics: A Debate” (with Etienne Balibar, Kevin Featherstone, Stathis Kouvelakis and Costas Lapavitsas), Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 28.2, 293-310. Peter Bratsis
2005 “Situations Manifesto” (with Stanley Aronowitz), Situations, Vol. 1 #1, 7-14.
2003 “The Construction of Corruption; or, Rules of Separation and Illusions of Purity in Bourgeois Societies,” Social Text, #77, Winter, 9-34. a. Greek translation, 2008, Synchrona Themata, #102, 11-25. b. Spanish translation, forthcoming, Ciencia Politica.
2000 “Political Theory and the Problem of the National Individual; or, The Dangers of Baseball, Hotdogs and Apple Pie,” Found Object, #8, Spring, 67-95.
1999 “Nicos Poulantzas and the Ontological Status of the State in Marxist Theory,” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. 25 #1-2, 155-176. a. Greek translation, 2001, in Politics Today: Nicos Poulantzas and the Contemporary Pertinence of His Work Alkis Rigos and Konstantinos Tsoukalas eds., Themelio, 183-204.
1994 “The Macedonian Question and the Politics of Identity: Resonance, Reproduction, Real Politik,” Journal of Modern Hellenism, #11, Winter, 109-121.
Book Chapters
2011 “Greek Corruption in Context” in Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives, Leonidas Cheliotis and Sappho Xenakis eds., Peter Lang Publishers, 197-207.
2010 (in Greek) “The Sociological Imagination of Konstantinos Tsoukalas” in Power and Society: Essays for Konstantinos Tsoukalas, Maria Kousis, Minas Samatas and Socrates Koniordos eds., Kastaniotis Publishers, 206-212.
2003 “Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Globalization, Spatial Metaphors, and the Question of State Power” in Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney eds., Basic Books, 123-131. a. Chinese translation, 2004, Guangxi Normal University Press. b. Thai translation, 2008, The Midnight University, Midnight Text #1665.
2002 “State Power, Global Power” (with Stanley Aronowitz) in Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, University of Minnesota Press, xi-xxvii.
2002 “Unthinking the State: Reification, Ideology, and the State as a Social Fact” in Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, University of Minnesota Press, 247-267.
Book Reviews, Interviews, and Other Academic Publications
2007, “Neoinstitutionalism” and “Nicos Poulantzas” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd edition) William A. Darity ed., Macmillan.
2007 “Legitimation”, “New Left” and “Prolitarianization” in Class in America: An Encyclopedia, Robert E. Weir ed., Greenwood Press.
2006 review of Henri Lefebvre’s Rythmanalysis in New Political Science, Vol. 28 #1, 143- 146. 2 Peter Bratsis
2003 review of Nicos Poulantzas’s State, Power, Socialism in Constellations, Vol. 10 #1, 145- 148.
2003 “The Constitution of the Greek Americans,” Discussion Paper #9, The Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, 24pp.
2003 “Corrupt Compared to What? Greece, Capitalist Interests and the Specular Purity of the State,” Discussion Paper #8, The Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, 56pp.
2000 “Found Subject: Asterios Matakos” (with Heather Gautney), Found Object, #9, Fall, 107-118.
1997 “Globalization, Education and Intellectual Production in Greece: An Interview with Constantine Tsoukalas” (with Nicos Alexiou), Journal of Modern Hellenism, #14, Winter, 39-51.
Newspaper, Magazine, and News Service Articles
2012 “The Greek Elections and the Future of John Maynard Keynes”, Truthout, June. a. Spanish translation, Revista Sin Permiso
2012 “Will Greece Be Ruled by the Bankers or Its People?”, Truthout, March. a. Republished in International Journal of Radical Critique Vol. 1 No. 2. b. Portuguese translation, RevistaPittacos.org c. Spanish translation, stasisgrecia.wordpress.com
2011 “Two Lefts”, The Point: A Journal of Ideas, December.
2011 “Class Struggle in Britain: Notes from London”, The Indypendent, #163, April.
2011 “Conflict, Fantasy and Frances Fox Piven in American Life”, Truthout, January.
2010 “Viagra for an Impotent America”, The Indypendent, #157, October.
WORKS IN PROGRESS AND UNDER REVIEW:
“Capitalism and the State in Greece: De Te Fabula Narratur!,” for edited book on political theory and the Greek crisis.
Essay “Twenty Years of Boredom: Veganism and the Cultural Logic of Late Liberalism,” for journal Situations.
Monograph on political corruption, working title An Anatomy of Corruption, will be completed in the upcoming year.
Essay drawing upon the ideas of Norbert Elias to address the political crisis in Europe, working title ‘Civilization Gone Awry: The European Turn Toward Barbarism’, should be completed in the upcoming year.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: 3 Peter Bratsis
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Theory (2006-2012, tenured from 2007) School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Salford
Adjunct Associate Professor (2005) Department of Political Science Long Island University, Brooklyn
Adjunct Assistant Professor (2005) Department of Political Science Fordham University
Adjunct Assistant Professor (2003-5) Departments of Political Science and Sociology Queens, City, Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges, CUNY
Senior Research Fellow (2002-3) Hellenic Observatory European Institute London School of Economics and Political Science
Teaching Fellow (2001-2) Department of Government John Jay College, CUNY
Adjunct Lecturer (1997-2001) Departments of Political Science and Liberal Studies Brooklyn, Queens, Lehman & City Colleges, CUNY
Teaching Fellow (1993-7) Department of Political Science Brooklyn College, CUNY
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS:
2008 Symposium Grant (£750) Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
2002 Research Fellowship Hellenic Observatory, European Institute London School of Economics and Political Science
2001 The Ivo Duchacek Award (for best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal by a graduate student in political science)
2000 Research Grant ($2000) Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Queens College, CUNY
1999-2000 Departmental Fellowship 4 Peter Bratsis
Ph.D. Program in Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY
1993-1997 Teaching Fellowship Ph.D. Program in Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY
1992-1993 University Fellowship Ph.D. Program in Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS:
2012 “The Greek Crisis, Capitalism, and the State,” The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
2012 “Authoritarian Statism and the Limits of Protest,” Left Forum, Pace University.
2011 “Dan Georgakas as Organic Intellectual of the Working Class” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, New York University.
2011 “The New Politics of Corruption: From the White Man’s Burden to the Relative Autonomy of the State,” International Studies Association, Montreal.
2011 “Badiou’s Event: Who’s Afraid of Fidelity and Truth?,” Left Forum, Pace University.
2011 “Learning from the Tea Party,” Left Forum, Pace University.
2010 Debating the Greek Crisis, Birkbeck College, University of London.
2009 Weeklong series of lectures on state theory, University of Buenos Aires.
2009 “Miliband Beyond Miliband,” The State in Capitalist Society – 40 Years On, Leeds Metropolitan University.
2009 “Twenty Years of Boredom: Culture and Politics Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Left Forum, Pace University.
2008 “Toward a Marxist Theory of Political Corruption,” Historical Materialism Annual Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
2008 “Historical Conjunctures and Political Possibilities: May ‘68 through Lefebvre and Castoriadis,” May ’68: Toward the Naming of the ‘Event’, University of Salford.
2008 “Against Transparency: Relative Autonomy and the Homoginization of State Forms in the Age of Globalization” Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University.
2008 “The Antinomies of Political Corruption: Moralism, Technocracy, and the Relative Autonomy of the State,” King’s College, University of London.
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2007 “Greek Marxism? Nicos Poulantzas and the Margins of Political Thought,” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Yale University.
2007 “Singularity and the Praxis of Theory: Notes on the Significance of Konstantine Tsoukalas,” Conference in Honor of Konstantine Tsoukalas, University of Crete.
2007 “Everyday Life as Object and as Method; or, Can Henri Lefebvre Save Us from Political Science?,” Everyday Life in World Politics and Economics, London School of Economics.
2007 “Martha Stewart as Critic of Henri Lefebvre,” Left Forum, The Cooper Union.
2006 Weeklong seminar/mini-course on political corruption, University Institute for Research of Rio de Janeiro.
2006 “Althusser, Lacan, and the Materiality of National Identity,” Manchester Metropolitan University.
2006 “Perceptions of Corruption in Greek Politics: Between Commodity Fetishism and Globalization,” Columbia University.
2004 “Globalization and Political Corruption,” Graduate Center, CUNY.
2002 “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About National Identity, But Were Afraid to Ask the Greek-Americans,” London School of Economics.
2002 “Political Corruption: Lessons from Ancient Greece, Medieval England, and Mary Douglas,” London School of Economics.
2002 “From the King’s Two Bodies to the Fetish of the Public: The Foundations of the State Abstraction,” University Institute for Research of Rio de Janeiro.
2002 “The Constitution of the Greek-Americans,” CUNY Seminar on the Modern Greek State.
2001 “Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Globalization, Spatial Metaphors, and the Question of State Power,” Globalization and Resistance, Graduate Center, CUNY.
2000 “Castoriadis, Kantorowicz and the Historicity of Political Forms,” Cornelius Castoriadis: Rethinking Autonomy, Columbia University.
2000 “Italian Political Theory and the Normality of Political Corruption: From Machiavelli to Gramsci,” Annual Conference, American Association for Italian Studies.
2000 “Political Theory and the Problem of the National Individual; or, The Dangers of Baseball, Hotdogs and Apple Pie,” Action and Identity, SUNY Stony Brook.
1999 “Nicos Poulantzas and the Ontological Status of the State in Marxist Theory,” Politics Today: Conference in Memory of Nicos Poulantzas, University of Athens.
1995 “The Macedonian Question and the Politics of Identity: Resonance, Reproduction, Real Politik,” CUNY Seminar on the Modern Greek State. 6 Peter Bratsis
1993 “Does the State Exist? Towards a Constructivist Theory of the State” (with Jose Eisenberg), Annual CUNY Political Science Conference.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:
The Greek Crisis in Context: De Te Fabula Narratur! Centre for Democracy and Human Rights University of Salford May, 2010
The Everyday Formation of the State Centre for Democracy and Human Rights University of Salford November, 2009
May ’68: Toward the Naming of the ‘Event' European Studies Research Institute University of Salford October, 2008
Symposium on Political Corruption European Studies Research Institute University of Salford November, 2006
Multitude or Class? Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work Graduate Center, CUNY December, 2003
Miliband and Poulantzas: In Retrospect and Prospect Department of Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY April, 1997
COURSES TAUGHT:
University of Salford: Introduction to Political Theory; Theories of Power and Domination; Political Sociology; Political Economy; Researching in Politics and International Relations; International Relations and Ethics; Contemporary Political and Social Thought (MA); Globalization and Geopolitics (MA).
Brooklyn College: Introduction to American Government; People, Power, Politics; Politics of Developing Nations; Race and Ethnicity in America (MA); Human Nature and Political Theory (MA).
Queens College: Introduction to Political Science; American Politics and Government; Current Political Controversies; Middle Eastern Politics; Formation of the Modern Greek State.
City College: Political Ideas and Issues; Communist Systems; Research Methods (MA). 7 Peter Bratsis
Fordham University: Introduction to Political Philosophy.
John Jay College: American Government and Politics.
Hunter College: Introduction to Sociology.
Lehman College: Great Political Thinkers.
Long Island University: Power and Politics.
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
2004-present Founding Member, Editorial Collective, Situations
2009-present Board of Advisors, Ikarian Centre for Social and Political Research
2011-2012 Social Sciences Editor, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
2010-2011 Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
1999-2002 Member, Editorial Collective, Found Object
Reviewer for: Journals - New Political Science; British Journal of Sociology; Parliamentary Affairs; History of European Ideas; European Political Science; Capital and Class; Constellations; Journal of Modern Greek Studies; Public Culture; Politics; Society and Space; Millennium. Presses - SUNY Press; Palgrave; Routledge; Pluto Press.
UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
2009-2012, Leader for undergraduate program in Politics, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Salford
2009-2012, University and College Union Representative/Shop Steward School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Salford
2009-2011, Academic misconduct investigator, School of English, Sociology, Politics, and Contemporary History University of Salford
2006-2010, Coordinator of seminar series in Radical Political and Social Thought European Studies Research Institute University of Salford
2008, Founder of MA program in International Relations and Globalization School of English, Sociology, Politics, and Contemporary History University of Salford
2007-8, Web and Technology Officer 8 Peter Bratsis
School of English, Sociology, Politics, and Contemporary History University of Salford
2007, Search Committee for position in Comparative Politics School of English, Sociology, Politics, and Contemporary History University of Salford
2006, Exams Officer for Politics and Contemporary History School of English, Sociology, Politics, and Contemporary History University of Salford
1994-2000, Member of Executive Committee Department of Political Science Graduate Center, City University of New York
STUDENT SUPERVISION:
2012, PhD, Ania Kowalczyk, “Class Struggle and Neoliberal Restructuring: The Case of Chile” (external examiner: James Martin).
2009, PhD, Richard Ganis, “The Politics of Care in Habermas and Derrida: Between Measurability and Immeasurability” (external examiner: Eduardo Mendieta).
2008, PhD, Giles Simon, “The Illusion of Difference Within Liberalism” (external examiner: Simon Tormey).
Supervised 12 MA dissertations 2009-2012 MA program in International Relations and Globalization School of English, Sociology, Politics, and Contemporary History University of Salford
Supervised 4 MA dissertations from 1998-2001 MA program in Liberal Studies Brooklyn College, CUNY
Supervised over 30 undergraduate thesis papers 2006-2012 University of Salford
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