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
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Boston University, Boston, MA September 2010 – August 2013
Ph.D., Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD May 2010 Dissertation Title: Globalization and Capital Mobility in the Automobile Industry Advisors: Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver
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
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
Program in Comparative Sociology and International Development Travel Grant 2005 Johns Hopkins University
Global Studies Institute Research Fellowship 2005 Johns Hopkins University
Henry Rutgers Scholar, Rutgers University Honors Thesis: Northern Rhodesian Copper Miners in the World System
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Introduction to the Sociology of Globalization Boston University, 9/2011 – 12/2011
Introduction to Globalization Johns Hopkins University, 1/2010 – 5/2010
Teaching Assistant (Johns Hopkins University)
Latin America in the World System, 2/2006 – 5/2006
Latin America and Latinos in the U.S., 9/2005 – 12/2005
Introduction to Sociology, 2/2004 – 5/2004
Introduction to Social Statistics, 9/2003 – 12/2003, 9/2004 – 12/2004
RESEARCH
Papers and Book Chapters
Aschoff, Nicole. 2011. “A Tale of Two Crises: Labour, Capital and Restructuring in the US Auto Industry,” Forthcoming in The Crisis and the Left: Socialist Register 2012, ed. Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber, and Leo Panitch.
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.
Papers Under Review and Working Papers
Aschoff, Nicole. “Contours of Change: Geographical Restructuring in the North American Automobile Industry.” (Under review)
Aschoff, Nicole. “US Autoworkers, Globalization, and Discourses of Dispossession.” (In preparation)
Aschoff, Nicole. “The rise and demise of vertical production: Examining the role of finance in the restructuring of the US auto industry.” (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.
PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
8 / 2011 “US Autoworkers, Globalization, and Discourses of Dispossession,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. (Invited Panelist)
4 / 2011 “Toward a Sociology of Capital Mobility: Geographical Restructuring in the US Automotive Industry,” Department of Sociology, Boston University, Boston, MA. (Invited Talk) 2 / 2010 “The Social Impacts of Finance: A Study of the Automobile Industry,” Socialist Register Workshop, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, ON. (Invited Talk)
11 / 2009 “Globalization and Capital Mobility in the Automobile Industry,” Department of Sociology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL. (Invited Talk)
11 / 2009 “Capital Mobility and Globalization in the Automobile Industry,” Cornell University, ILR School, Ithaca, NY. (Invited Talk)
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,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting: Political Economy of the World System Mini-Conference, San Francisco, CA. (Invited Panelist)
3 / 2009 “Accumulation by Dispossession and its Limits: The Southern African Paradigm Revisited,” Seminar on International Development, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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. (Invited Panelist)
2 / 2008 “Job Movement in the North American Auto Industry,” Political Science Departmental Seminar, York University, Toronto, ON. (Invited Talk)
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