Julian Go CV Nov 2019 for UC
JULIAN GO III Curriculum Vitae November 2019
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND AFFILIATIONS Current: Boston University. Professor of Sociology (2014-present). Starting July 2020: Professor of Sociology, the University of Chicago
Previous: Associate Professor (2009-present); Assistant Professor (2004-9); Faculty Affiliate, Asian Studies Center and the American & New England Studies Program; Harvard University. Academy Scholar, Academy for International and Area Studies, Postdoctoral Fellowship (2001-3); University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Assistant Professor of Sociology, (2000-4; on leave 2001-3)
Visiting Positions: Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Department of Sociology (2018); Visiting Professor, University of Lucerne, Department of Sociology, Switzerland (2015); Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for International Studies (2012); Visiting Professor, Department of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain (2010); Visiting Scholar, Third World Studies Center, University of Philippines, Diliman, Philippines (1997)
Editorial Positions: Editor, Political Power and Social Theory; Editorial Board, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Sociological Theory; The Sociology of Race & Ethnicity, Social Science History; Editorial Board, Relational Sociology Book Series (Palgrave-MacMillan); Editorial Board, Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences Book Series (Lexington).
EDUCATION Ph.D. Sociology. The University of Chicago (2000) M.A. Sociology. The University of Chicago (1995) B.A. Sociology and Political Science. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1992) Honors Program, graduation with High Distinction
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS Go, Julian. 2016. Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. •Honorable Mention, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award for Best Book in Sociology, Eastern Sociological Society, 2019
•Honorable Mention, Best Book in Sociology & Social Work, PROSE Award, given by The Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2017
Go, Julian. 2011. Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present. Cambridge University Press.
•Winner, Best Book in Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2012
•Winner, Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association, 2013
•Winner, J. David Greenstone Book Award for the Best Book in Politics and History in 2010 and 2011, American Political Science Association (winner out of 95 submissions)
•Choice Magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” of 2012
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Go, Julian. 2008. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S.Colonialism. Duke University Press. Asia Edition: Anvil Publishing.
•Co-Winner, Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book of the Year, American Sociological Association, Section on the Sociology of Culture, 2009
•Finalist, 28th Annual National Book Awards of the Philippines, Social Science Section, given by the Philippine National Book Development Board and the Manila Critics Circle
Edited Books Go, Julian and George Lawson, (eds). 2017. Global Historical Sociology. Cambridge University Press.
•Winner, Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, by the International Studies Association, 2019
Go, Julian (ed). 2016. Postcolonial Sociologies: A Reader. Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Go, Julian and Monika Krause (eds). 2016. Fielding Transnationalism. Wiley. Sociological Review Monograph Series. (also special journal volume)
Go, Julian. 2013. More American Than We Admit. Manila: Vibal Publishing
Go, Julian and Anne Foster (eds.). 2003. The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press.
Special Journal Issues Go, Julian and Monika Krause (eds). 2016. "Fielding Transnationalism.“ Sociological Review.
Go, Julian. 2013. Postcolonial Sociology (A Special Volume of Political Power & Social Theory). Emerald Publishing Ltd.
Go, Julian (guest editor, with Diane E. Davis). 2009. “Empires and Colonialisms” special section of Political Power and Social Theory vol. 20. Emerald Publishing Ltd.
PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED ARTICLES Go, Julian and Jake Watson. 2019. “Anticolonial Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Colonial Conflict.” European Journal of Sociology 60(1):31-68.
Edwards, Zophia and Julian Go. 2019. “The Forces of Imperialism: Internalist and Global Explanations of the Anglo-European Empires, 1750-1960.” The Sociological Quarterly 60(4): 628-653.
Go, Julian. 2018. “Postcolonial Possibilities for the Study of Race” Sociology of Race & Ethnicity 4(4): 439.451.
______. 2018. “Bourdieu, Argélia e a perspectiva pós-colonial / Bourdieu, Algeria and the postcolonial standpoint.” [in Portugese]. Contemporânea: Revista de Sociologia da Ufscar 8(1): 11-32. Published in Russian as Go, J. 2019. “Pierre Bourdieu, Algeria and Postcolonial Sociology” Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies] 4: 86-98
______. 2017 “’Civilization’ and its Subalterns,” Review of International Studies 43(4): 612-620.
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______. 2017. “Myths of nation and empire: the logic of America’s liberal empire-state“ Thesis Eleven 139(1): 69-83
______. 2017. “Decolonizing Sociology: Epistemic Inequality and Sociological Thought“ Social Problems 64(2): 194-199
______. 2016. “Global Sociology, Turning South: Perspectival Realism and the Southern Standpoint.“ Sociologica: International Journal for Sociological Debate 10(2): 1-42, and “In Defense of the Southern Standpoint: A friendly response to Beigel, Crothers, and Keim,” part of a special forum on my essay “Global Sociology.”
Go, Julian and Monika Krause. 2016. “Fielding Transnationalism.“ Sociological Review 64: 6-30.
Go, Julian. 2016. “W(h)ither the social? On the imperial episteme and Economy of Force.” Security Dialogue 47(3): 201-207.
______. 2014. “Capital, Containment and Competition: The Dynamics of British Imperialism, 1730- 1939.” Social Science History 38(1-2): 43-69.
______. 2014. “The Historical Sociology of Empires: Response to Critics” (part of book forum on Patterns of Empire) Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 34(3): 644-651
______. 2014. “Beyond Metrocentrism: Empire and Globalism in Early US Sociology.” Journal of Classical Sociology 14(2): 178-202.
______. 2014. “Occluding the Global: Analytic Bifurcation, Causal Scientism, and Alternatives in Historical Sociology.“ Journal of Globalization Studies 5(1): 122-136.
______. 2013. “Introduction: Entangling Postcoloniality and Sociological Thought” Political Power and Social Theory: Postcolonial Sociologies (A Special Volume) 24: 3-31.
______. 2013. “For a Postcolonial Sociology.” Theory and Society. 42(1): 25-55.
______. 2013. “Fanon’s Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism.” European Journal of Social Theory 16(2): 208-225
______. 2013. “Decolonizing Bourdieu: Colonial and Postcolonial Theory in Pierre Bourdieu’s Early Work.” Sociological Theory 31(1): 49-74.
______. 2009. “The New Sociology of Empire and Colonialism.” Sociology Compass 3(5): 775-788.
______. 2008. “Global Fields and Imperial Forms: Field Theory and the US and British Empires.” Sociological Theory 26(3): 201-229.
______. 2007. “The Provinciality of American Empire: ‘Liberal Exceptionalism and US Colonial Rule.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 (1): 74-108.
______. 2007. “Waves of American Empire, 1787-2003: US Hegemony and Imperialistic Activity from the Shores of Tripoli to Iraq.” International Sociology 22(1): 5-40.
______. 2004. "'Racism' and Colonialism: Meanings of Difference and Ruling Practices in America's Pacific Empire." Qualitative Sociology 27(1): 35-58.
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______. 2003. “A Globalizing Constitutionalism? Views from the Postcolony, 1945-2000” International Sociology 18(1): 71-95. Reprinted in Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, ed. Said Arjomand. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.
______. 2002. "Modeling the State: Postcolonial Constitutions in Africa and Asia." Southeast Asian Studies 39 (4): 557-584. Reprinted in Making a World After Empire, ed. Christopher Lee. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010.
______. 2000. "Chains of Empire, Projects of State: Colonial State-Building in Puerto Rico and the Philippines." Comparative Studies in Society and History 42(2): 332-362. Reprinted in Julian Go and Anne Foster, eds., The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press, 2003.
______. 1999. "Colonial Reception and Cultural Reproduction: Filipino Elite Response to U.S. Colonialism." Journal of Historical Sociology 12 (1): 337-368.
______. 1998. "El Cuerpo, Razon, and Kapangyarihan (The Body, Reason, and Power): Filipino Elite Cosmologies of State." Asian Studies 34 (1): 146-193
______. 1997. "Democracy, Domestication, and Doubling in the U.S. Colonial Philippines." POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (Journal of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropology, American Anthropological Association) 20(1): 50-61.
______. 1996. "Inventing Industrial Accident Insurance: The Discourse of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1880s-1910s." Social Science History 20(3): 401-438.
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS Go, Julian. In Press. “Empire, Democracy and Discipline: the Inter and Intra-Imperial Secret History of the Secret Ballot System,” in Jay Sexon and Kristin Hoganson, eds., Transimperial Histories. Duke University Press.
Go, Julian. In Press. “Political Sociology and the Postcolonial Perspective” in Joya Misra, Cedric de Leon, and Thomas Janoski (eds.) The Handbook of Political Sociology
Go, Julian. In Press. “American Decline and Performative Miltarism, or How to Do Things with War,“ in Federic Merand, ed., Imperial Decline. University of Quebec Press.
Go, Julian. 2017. "Postcolonial Thought as Social Theory,“ in Social Theory Now, Claudio Benezcry, Monika Krause, Isaac Reed, eds.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Go, Julian. 2017. "Relational Sociology and Postcolonial Theory: Sketches of a Postcolonial Relationalism,“ pp. 357-373 in Handbook of Relational Sociology, François Dépelteau, ed. Palgrave- MacMillan.
Go, Julian with George Lawson. 2017. "Globalizing Historical Sociology“ in George Lawson and Julian Go, eds. Global Historical Sociology, Cambridge University Press.
Go, Julian and Monika Krause. 2016. “Fielding Transnationalism: An Introduction“ in Julian Go and Monika Krause, eds. Fielding Transnationalism. Wiley. Sociological Review Monograph Series
Go, Julian. 2016. "Ilustrado Transnationalism: Filipino Politics across the Empires, 1880s-1910s“ pp. 128- 149 in Augusto Espiritu and Martin Manalansan (eds.), Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora. New York: NYU Press.
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______2015. “Anti-Imperialism in the United States Territories, 1898-1950s“ in Jay Sexton and Ian Tyrell (eds.), Empire's Twin: U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
______. 2014. “Qualitative Methodology: Comparing Societies“ pp. 21-29 in Sasaki Masamchi, Jack Goldstone, and Ekkart Zimmerman, eds., The Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology. Leiden: Brill.
______. 2013. “Sociology’s Imperial Unconscious: Early American Sociology in a Global Context” pp. 83-105 in George Steinmetz, ed., Sociology and Empire. Durham: Duke University Press.
______. 2012. “Entangled Empires: Transitions to the American Era“ Pp. 335-343 in Alfred McCoy, ed., Eclipse of Empires. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
______. 2011. “American Imperial Identity and the Philippine Experience” in The Philippines and Japan in America’s Shadow, ed. Kiichi Fujiwara and Yoshiko Nagano. National University of Singapore Press Japanese translation published by Hosei University Press, Tokyo
______.2008. “Governmentality and Political Meaning in the late Nineteenth-Century Philippines” in Isaac Donoso (ed.), More Hispanic Than We Think. Manila: Vibal Publishing House.
______. 2005. “Imperial Power and its Limits: America’s Colonial Empire" in Lessons of Empire, Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore (eds). New York: the New Press. Reprinted as "America's Colonial Empire: the Limits of Power." Items & Issues (Quarterly of the Social Science Research Council) 2004, 4(4).
______. 2005. "Modes of Rule in America's Overseas Empire: the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam and Samoa," in The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, eds. Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow. Rowan & Littlefield.
______. 2003. "Introduction: Global Perspectives on the U.S. Colonial State in the Philippines" in Julian Go and Anne Foster, The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press.
Reprints Go, Julian. 2010. "Modeling the State: Postcolonial Constitutions in Africa and Asia." in Making a World After Empire, ed. Christopher Lee. Athens: Ohio University Press. Originally Southeast Asian Studies 39 (4): 557-584., 2002.
Go, Julian. 2007. “A Globalizing Constitutionalism? Views from the Postcolony, 1945-2000” Constitutionalism and Political Reconstruction, ed. Said Arjomand. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Originally International Sociology 18(1): 71-95, 2003.
PUBLICATIONS: REVIEWS, ENTRIES, NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
Go, Julian. 2019. Review of The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South, by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The American Journal of Sociology 125(2): 619-621.
______and Manuela Boatca. 2018. “Debate on Postcolonialism and Sociology.“ Soziologie 47, 4: 423- 438.
______and Crystal Fleming. 2018. Interview on Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. Newsletter of the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the ASA (Spring): 9-13.
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______. 2017. “Postcolonial Historical Sociology? A Reply to Garrido, Magubane, and Morris.” Newsletter of the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association 28(3): 57-62.
______. 2016. “Introduction to the Symposium on Capital, the State, and War,“ Cambridge Review of International Affairs
______. 2016. “The Case for Scholarly Reparations: Race, the history of sociology, and the marginalized man – lessons from Aldon Morris’ book The Scholar Denied. Berkeley Journal of Sociology online: http://berkeleyjournal.org/2016/01/the-case-for-scholarly-reparations/
______. 2015. “Closet Postcolonialists? On Buzan and Lawson’s The Great Transformation.“ The Disorder of Things online blog http://thedisorderofthings.com/symposia/
______. 2014. “Theory, Check your privilege.“ Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section
______. 2013. “A global-historical sociology of power: on Mann’s concluding volumes to The sources of social power” (Review Essay) International Affairs 89(6): 1469-1477.
______. 2013. “Enter Postcolonial Theory.“ Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section 35(1): 1-2,6.
______. 2013. Book Review of Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010 by John Owen. Journal of World Systems Research 19(1)
______. 2012. “Letter from the Chair: Globalizing Comparative-Historical Sociology“ Trajectories: Newsletter of the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association 24(1): 1-5
______. 2010. Book Review of Along the Archival Grain by Laura Ann Stoler, Pacific Affairs 83(3): 557-559
______. 2010. Book Review of Lineages of Despotism and Development, by Matthew Lange, American Journal of Sociology 115 (6): 1940-1943.
______. 2009. Book Review and Interview, Karen Barkey’s Empire of Difference. Trajectories: Newsletter of the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association 20 (Spring).
______. 2006. “Entering Historical Sociology beyond the ‘Second Wave’” Trajectories: Newsletter of the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association 17 (Fall).
______. 2006. “Disobedient Generation?” Perspectives: Newsletter of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association 28(4).
______. 2006. "Colonialism" in George Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing.
______. 2006. "Decolonization" in George Ritzer (ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing.
______. 2006. "Postcolonial theory" in Bryan Turner (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge University Press.
______. 2006. "Syncretism" in Bryan Turner (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge University Press.
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______. 2005. Review Essay of A. Kaplan’s Anarchy of Empire and J. Dauny’s Puerto Rican Nation on the Move. Social History 30(1): 101-103.
HONORS, AWARDS & SPECIAL RECOGNITION For Scholarship Winner, Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, by the International Studies Association, 2019, for Global Historical Sociology (co-edited with George Lawson)
Honorable Mention, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award (for Best Book in Sociology), Eastern Sociological Society, 2019, for Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory
Lewis A. Coser Award for Agenda-Setting in Sociology. 2018. Given by the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association to the sociologist “whose work holds great promise for setting the agenda in the field of sociology.”
Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association, 2013 for Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688-present
Best Book in Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association. 2012 for Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688-present
J. David Greenstone Book Award for the Best Book in Politics and History in 2010 and 2011, American Political Science Association, for Patterns of Empire: the British and American Empires, 1688-present
Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Cultural Sociology, American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Culture. 2009 (Co-Winner) for American Empire and the Politics of Meaning
Finalist, National Book Award of the Philippines, Social Sciences, 2009, for American Empire and the Politics of Meaning; given by the Manila Critics Association and the Philippine National Book Board
Teaching & Mentoring Recognition Honorary Initiate & Graduate Speaker, Boston University Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, 2016.
Templeton Award for Excellence in Student Advising. 2014. College of Arts & Sciences Boston University. Given annually.
Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching. Boston University College of Arts and Sciences. 2007. The award is given annually to a CAS faculty member for “excellent and distinguished teaching in the broadest sense, including classroom performance, course and curriculum development, advising, and enhancement of the scholarship of teaching and learning.”
Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences. Certificate of Appreciation for Teaching, Class of 2006 Gift Program. 2006.
Miscellaneous University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, Robert E. Park Lectureship Award. 1999
University of Chicago, Department of Sociology, Special Field Examination Honors: "Ethnic, National, and Religious Identities." 1997
Undergraduate Awards and Honors: Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociological Honors Society. 1992; Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociological Society, Undergraduate Student Paper Award: "Aging and Political Tolerance: A Cohort Analysis." 1992; Class Honors, University of Michigan. 1992; University of California Minority Research Opportunity Program. Summer 1991; Student Honors, American Sociological Association. 1991; Golden Key National Honors Society. 1991
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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Warwick-Boston Strategic Funding Initiative for Joint Research and Education, Co-Investigator (with Gurminder Bhambra of Warwick), “Postcolonial Cosmopolitanisms”, 2010-2011. $8500
International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, Co-Investigator (with Renisa Mawani), “Law’s Imperial Fields” (funding for 2-day workshop at the International Institute in Spain)
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Academy for International and Area Studies, Conference/Workshop Grant “Empires, Colonialisms, and Contexts.” 2006-2007. $7500.
Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunity Awards. Fall 2006, Spring 2016. Co-Investigator. $2000
American Sociological Association-National Science Foundation Funds for the Advancement of the Discipline Award. 2006-2007. “Cycles of Global Power: The British and US Empires in Comparative- Historical Perspective, 1815-2004.” $5000
Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. 2001-2003 (two-year, non-teaching postdoctoral fellowship)
University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Research Grant. 2000-2002.
Dissertation and Pre-Dissertation: Social Science Research Council, International Studies Dissertation Matching Grant. 1998; MacArthur Foundation & University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation, Dissertation Research Grant. 1997; Social Science Research Council, International Predissertation Fellowship Program. 1995-96; United States Department of Education, Foreign Language Area Studies Grant. 1996; University of Chicago, University Fellowship. Department of Sociology. 1992-1996
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND POSITIONS Editorial Positions: Editor, Political Power and Social Theory; Editorial Board, American Journal of Cultural Sociology; Current Sociology, Sociological Theory, Social Science History, Sociology of Race & Ethnicity; Editorial Board, Relational Sociology Book Series (Palgrave-MacMillan); Editorial Board, Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences Book Series (Lexington).
Elected Chair, American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, starting 2018
Elected Council Member, American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2015-current
Elected Member, Publications Committee, Social Science History Association, 2016-current
Chair, Committee for Junior Theorist Award, American Sociological Association Theory Section, 2017
Best International Publication Award Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2017
Best Article Award Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2016
Best Book Award Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2014
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Nominations Committee, American Sociological Association Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, 2013-2014
Chair, American Sociological Association Section on Comparative-Historical Sociology, 2012-2013
Selection Committee, Best Article Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association, 2012-01-10
Program Committee Co-Chair, Social Science History Association, 2010-11
Prize Award Committee, Best Dissertation Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2010)
Elected Council Member, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2008-2011
President’s Nominating Committee, Social Science History Association, 2009.
Selection Committee, Oliver Cox Best Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association, 2009.
Selection Committee, Best Article Award, Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2008.
Co-Organizer, Boston Area Social Theory Group, 2006-2008.
Invited Colloquium Participant, “Human Rights and Sociological Institutionalism”, Harvard Law School, 2007.
Selection Committee, Richard Bendix Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Comparative Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. 2002.
Tenure and Promotion Reviewer. University of Chicago; University of Colorado; Providence College
Select Manuscript, Grant, and Book/Proposal Reviewer (various years). American Journal of Sociology; American Sociological Review; American Anthropologist; Comparative Studies in Society and History; Cambridge University Press; Cornell University Press; DuBois Review; International Studies Review; University of Illinois Press; The Sociological Quarterly; Law & Society; National Endowment for the Humanities (USA); Qualitative Sociology; Sociological Theoryl Studies in American Political Development; Theory & Society; Cambridge University Press; Duke University Press; University of North Carolina Press; Palgrave-Macmillan Press; Pennsylvania State University Press; Polity Press; Australian National Research Council; National Science Foundation; Social Science Research Council
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: CONFERENCE & SESSION ORGANIZATION Conference Session Organization (select years to 2013): Colonial Legacies, Social Science History Association, Chicago (2013); Whither Postcolonial Theory? Social Science History Association, Chicago (2013); The Anglo-American Empires, American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2012); Global Sociology, Social Science History Association, Vancouver (2012); Session Organizer, Postcolonial Sociologies, Social Science History Association, Vancouver (2012); Empires and Civilizations, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (2012); (Co-organizer) New Directions in Historical Sociology, Social Science History Association, Chicago (November 2010); Cultures and Colonialism, Social Science History Association, Chicago (November 2010); Nations and Nationalism, American Sociological Association, Atlanta 2010; New Research on the British Empire, Social Science History Association,
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Miami (Oct. 23-26, 2008); Transnational Sociology. American Sociological Association, New York, 2007; Identity, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Alumni Conference, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA. 2005; Empire in Context I: Theoretical Perspectives on Empire” and “Empire in Context II: Imperial Governance in Comparative Perspective”, sessions for the International Institute of Sociology Meetings, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2005; “Ideology, Politics, and Colonialism in the Philippines” Asian Studies Conference-Japan, Annual Meeting of the Japan Asian Studies Association, Tokyo, 2001; "State Power in the U.S. Colonial Empire." Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Chicago, 1998.
Conference Organizer, “Fielding Transnationalism“ Boston University, October 14, 2014
Conference Co-Organizer, “Global Historical Sociology II“ Yale University, October 23, 2014
Conference Co-Organizer, Graduate Student Qualitative Sociology Conference, Boston University, 2014, May 21
Conference Co-Organizer, “Global Historical Sociology“ London School of Economics, 2013, October 25
Co-Organizer, GTS and CHS Faculty Mentoring Luncheon, NYC, August 2013
Conference Co-Organizer, “Capitalism, the Politics of Inequality, and Social Change“, mini-conference of the Comparative Historical Sociology and Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, 2013, Columbia University.
Conference Co-Organizer, “Law’s Imperial Fields,” International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain (June 24-26, 2010)
Conference Organizer, “Sociology and Empire,” mini-conference, Boston University, July 31-Aug. 1st, 2008
Conference Organizer, “Empires, Colonialisms, and Contexts” Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International and Area Affairs, 2007
Co-Organizer, The Fifth Annual Transnational Studies Workshop at the University of Illinois, 2004
UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Member, University Tenure and Promotions Committee, Boston University. 2018-present
Chair, Jr. Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University
Faculty Mentor, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2011-present
UROP Mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, 2017
Organizer, Society, Politics & Culture Workshop, BU Sociology, 2012-present
Teaching Mentor, Graduate Student Senior Teaching Fellow Program, Department of Sociology (multiple students 2010-2017)
Committee Member, Campagna-Kerven Ph.D. Fellowship Selection Committee, Graduate School, BU, 2017
Committee Member, Undergraduate Programs, Sociology, BU, 2017-
Committee Member, Space Planning, Sociology, BU, 2016-17
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Committee Member, Morris Commitee, Sociology, BU, 2016-2017
Committee Member, Seminar Series, Sociology, BU, 2016-2017
Committee Member, Merit Committee, Sociology, BU, 2016
Committee Member, Tenure & Promotion, College of Arts & Sciences, BU, 2015-16; 2016-2017
Co-Chair, Future Leadership Fact Finding, Sociology Department, BU, 2015, Fall
Committee Member, Senior Faculty Search Committee, African-American Studies, 2014-2016
Committee Member, Urban Search Faculty Commitee, Sociology, 2015-2016
Advisor, New England and American Studies Program, Boston University, 2015-present
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2013-2015
Member, Graduate Academic Affairs Committee, Graduate School, Boston University, 2014-present
Chair, Committee on University Provost’s Senior Faculty Hiring Initiative, Department of Sociology, Boston University 2014-present
Undergradute Curriculum Committee, Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2013-2014
Faculty Council Representive, CAS, Elected. Boston University 2010-current
Member, University Committee on Student Life (Undergraduate and Graduate), University Council, Boston University 2010-2011, 2011-2012.
Member, Faculty Council APT Committee, 2012-2013
Member, Mid-Career Review Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2012
Member, Morris Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2011
Chair, Committee to Revise Honors/Independent Study, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2011
Trustee Scholars Committee, Office of the President, Boston University 2010-11; 2011-2012
Chair, Seminar Series Committee, Sociology Department 2010-2011
Co-Founder and Organizer, Society, Politics and Culture Workshop, Boston University, 2009-present
Advisory Committee on Sociology Chair, 2009-2010
Committee to Revise the Core, Core Curriculum Program, Boston University, 2009
Graduate Program Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2007-2008
Faculty Affiliate, Asian Studies Program, Boston University, 2007-present
Faculty Affiliate, American Studies and New England Studies Program, 2006-present
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Research Module Coordinator, “Global and Comparative Processes,” Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2007-2008
Co-Coordinator, Seminar Series, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2006-present
Faculty Mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, Boston University. 2004-2007. Supervised Reesarch by undergraduates in economics, sociology, international relations, history.
Department Chair Search Committee, Sociology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2006-7
Faculty Assessment Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University, 2005-6
Chair, Junior Faculty Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University. 2005-6
Orientation Advisor (summer sessions), College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, 2005-current
Webmaster and Designer, Department of Sociology, Boston University. 2004-current.
Undergraduate Committee, Department of Sociology, Boston University. 2004-2006
Executive Advisory Committee. Department of Sociology. University of Illinois. 2003-4.
Grievance Committee. Department of Sociology. University of Illinois. 2003.
Grading Committee. Department of Sociology. University of Illinois. 2003.
Faculty Associate, Transnational Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2000- current. Organizer: Transnational Workshop.
Faculty Associate, Race/Class/Gender Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2003-current.
INVITED LECTURES & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2019. Invited Presentation. “Global Historical Sociology and the Agency Effect,“ with George Lawson. International Political Sociology Seminar, University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne (October).
2019. Invited Presentation. . “Social Theory, Race and the Imperial Episteme.“ Seminar "Pour une sociologie mondiale non-hégémonique" Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (October).
2019. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Policing.“ Department of Political Science, University of Florida at Gainesville (September)
2019. Invited Lecture. “Race, Empire and Policing.“ Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida at Gainesville (September).
2019. Invited Lecture. “Social Theory, Race and the Imperial Episteme.“ Annual Coser Award Lecture, American Sociological Association, New Yrk City.
2019. Invited Paper (with Daniel Nexon). “Relationalism in IR.“ Workshop on International Political Sociology, London School of Economics
2019. Invited Paper. “Red and Black Social Theory“, Toward a Non-Hegemonic Sociology Workshop, St. Emilion, France. University of Bourdeaux.
J. Go, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae, p. 13
2019. Invited Keynote Lecture. “The Standpoint of Social Science and Epistemic Exclusions.“ Philosophy of the Social Sciences Roundtable, University of Vermont (April 12)
2019. Invited Panelist. “Empire and Sociology.“ Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (April 3)
2019. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Policing.“ Department of Sociology, University of California-San Diego (Feb. 28)
2019. Invited Lecture. “Global Historical Sociology“ CÉRIUM, the Montréal Centre for International Studies, University of Montreal (Feb. 22)
2019. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Policing.“ Department of Sociology, McGill University, Montreal (Jan 18).
2018. Invited Panelist. “Rethinking the Canon“ Dubois Anniversary Conference, Harvard University (October 26)
2018. Invited Keynote Lecture. “Decolonizing the Social Sciences,“ Conference on “Decolonizing IR“, Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University (October 12)
2018. Invited Keynote Lecture. “Taking Empire Seriously.“ Congress of the German Sociological Association, University of Gottingen, Germany (September 2018)
2018. Invited Workshop Presentation. “Field Theory and Global Change: the end of Colonialism.“ World Society and its History workshop held at Osterhofen, Germany (organized by the Institute for World Society Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany).
2018. Invited Workshop Presentation. “Police Militarization and Colonial Innovations.“ Presence of the Past: the Colonial in Global History workshop in Schliersee, Germany (organized by the International Relations section of the German Political Science Foundation).
2018. Invited Lecture. “Why is Colonialism Over?“ Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan (July)
2018. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Police Militarization.“ Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Transnational Studies Workshop
2018. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Police Militarization.“ Department of Sociology, University of Texas-Austin (April)
2018. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Police Militarization.“ Sociology Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Stonybrook (February)
2018. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Police Militarization.“ Sociology Lecture Series, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago (February)
2018. Invited Lecture. “The Imperial Origins of Police Militarization.“ Workshop on History, Culture and Society, Harvard University (February)
2017. Invited Presentation. “Using History to Meet the Challenges of the Next Fifty Years“, Center for International Studies, London School of Economics (December)
2017. Invited Plenary Presentation. “On the Uses of the Past“, Annual Millennium conference, London School of Economics (November)
2017. Invited Lecture. “Why did Colonialism End?“ University of Bielefeld, World Society Institute (July)
J. Go, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae, p. 14
2017. Workshop on Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory. University of Bielefeld, Departments of Sociology, History, Law (July)
2017. Invited Workshop Paper, “Open Up Social Theory: Pluralism in the Social Sicences.“ University of Helsinki, Finland (June)
2016. Invited Lecture. “(In)Dependence and Colonial History: Puerto Rico and the Philippines.“ Center for Asian Studies; Center for Latin American Studies, Northeastern University (Nov. 9, 2016)
2016. Invited Lecture. “The End of Colonialism: Field Theory and Global Transformation.“ Lecture delivered to the International Theory Network, Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa (October 17).
2016. Invited Workshop Paper. “The Intra-Imperial and Inter-Imperial Secret History of the Secret Ballot.“ Paper presented at the Transimperialism Conference, Rotheremere Institute, Oxford University, UK
2016. Invited Keynote. “Checking Privilege.“ Delivered at the Graduation Ceremony of the Boston University Phi Beta Kappa Class of 2016.
2016. Invited Workshop Paper. “Violence and Global Fields.“ Paper presented at the Violent Conflictitions Workshop, ZIF, Bielefeld University, Germany.
2016. Invited Workshop Paper. “Colonialism’s Ends“ presented to the Postcolonial Studies Group, University of Florida (April)
2016. Invited Lecture. “The Interdisciplinarity of Postcolonial Thought“ Department of English, University of Florida (April)
2016. Invited Speaker. “The Legacies of (In)Dependence: Puerto Rico and the Philippines“ University of Puerto Rico and Kassel University Seminar Series, held at the University of Puerto Rico (April)
2015. Invited Guest Seminar Speaker. Mellon Series in Postcolonial Studies, 2015-2016, Brown University (October)
2015. Invited Workshop Paper. “The End of Colonialism.“ 2nd Annual Political Economy of Global Rivalry Workshop, Brown University (October)
2015. Invited Discussant. On White World Order. Book panel for the International Studies Association- Northeast Section
2015. Invited Keynote “Theory and Method in Patterns of Empire“ History and Theory Conference, London School of Economics (June)
2015. Invited Lecture “Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory“ University of Tennessee-Knoxville Department of Sociology (Feb)
2015. Invited Lecture “Fields of Empire“ University of Tennessee-Knoxville Department of Sociology (Feb)
2015. Invited Lecture. “On Patterns of Empire.“ Lecture and roundtable discussion on my book, Patterns of Empire. University of Copenhagen (May)
2015. Invited Paper. “Colonial Governmentality in the Anglo-American Empires.“ For a workshop on “Practices of Order: Colonial and Imperial Projects“ at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (January)
J. Go, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae, p. 15
2015. Invited Paper. “American Decline and Performative Miltarism, or How to Do Things with War.“ For a special symposium on "Decline Management and Power Transitions" at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationals, Université de Montréal (January)
2014. Invited Lecture. “Unsettling Exceptionalism: American Empire and Global Fields.“ Pomona College Departments of Sociology and International Relations (November 18)
2014. Invited Author for a special author-meets-critics session on Patterns of Empire for the inaugural event of the “Research on the Leading Edge“ Series, Hall Center for Humanities, Kansas University (Oct. 29)
2014. Invited Workshop Paper. “Globalizing Historical Sociology“ University of North Carolina, Department of Sociology, Cultural and Political Sociology Workshop (April 18).
2014. Invited Lecture. “Postcolonial Thought & Social Theory,“ Northwestern University, Department of Sociology (February 20)
2014. Invited Workshop Paper. “Where is the Global in Historical Sociology?“ Northwestern University, Workshop in Comparative-Historical Sociology (February 21)
2014. Invited Lecture. “Postcolonial Sociology“ Lucerne University, Switzerland (June 15)
2013. Invited Lecture. “Postcolonial Sociology“ University of Connecticut, Department of Sociology (November 13)
2013. Invited Lecture. “Postcolonial Sociology“ Rutgers University, Department of Sociology (September 25)
2013. Invited Lecture. “The Logic of Informal Empires.“ Princeton University, Institute for International and Regional Studies (April 19).
2013. Invited Lecture. “Comparing Empires.“ Brown University, Department of History (April 12).
2013. Invited Lecture. “For a Postcolonial Sociology.“ University of Virginia, Department of Sociology (March 28).
2012. Invited Lecture. “The Fields of Empire.“ University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology Colloquia Series (November 7).
2012. Author Meets Critics Session on Patterns of Empire. Social Science History Association, Vancouver.
2012. Invited Lecture. “What’s so Special about the American Empire?“ Harvard University, Workshop in History, Culture and Society (September 21)
2012. Invited Panel Discussant “Sociological Institutionalism and the Early British Empire“, Yale University, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (March 23). [Unable to attend]
2012. Invited Lecture. “Development and Empire“, Columbia University Committee on Global Thought (March 21)
2012. Invited Presentation. “Theorizing Global Relations“ International Relations Workshop, London School of Economics and Political Science (March 12)
2012. Invited Lecture. “Global Fields and Empires“ Political Sociology Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science (January 23)
J. Go, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae, p. 16
2011. Invited Speaker. “Crossing Empire: American Anti-Imperialism in the Empire“, Harvard International and Global History Workshop, Harvard University (Oct. 5)
2011. Invited Speaker. “Crossing Empire: American Anti-Imperialism in the Empire“, Symposium on American Anti-Imperialism since 1776, Oxford University Rothermere American Institute (April 29- 30)
2011. Invited Plenary Speaker. “Racial difference and the Exercise of Sovereignty.“ Symposium on Race and Sovereignty, UCLA Law School (March 29-April 2); in absentia
2010. Invited Lecture. “All the World’s a Field: a Bourdieusian Theory of the Global System.“ Brown University, Sociology Department Colloquia Series (Dec. 7)
2010. Invited Presentation. “Patterns of Empire,“ Public Lecture, Department of Sociology, Warwick University, UK (Feb. 4)
2010. Invited Presentation. “Matters of Meaning: US Colonialism in Puerto Rico,“ Latin American Modernities Symposium, Social Theory Centre, Warwick University, UK (Feb. 5)
2009. Author Meets Critics Session on American Empire and the Politics of Meaning, Social Science History Association, November 13, 2009
2009. Invited Presentation. “Meaning and Power in the US Occupation of the Philippines.” Asian Studies Center, Boston University (April 23)
2009. Invited Presentation. “Exceptional Empires?” Centre for European and International Studies, Yale University (April 17)
2009. Invited Presentation. “Repertoire Expansion as Cultural Transformation.” Boston University School of Social Work Colloquium (April 2).
2009. Invited Lecture. “The British and American Empires in Comparison,” University of New Mexico (March 26).
2009. Invited Lecture. “Culture in Colonialism: Theorizing Transformation in Puerto Rico and the Philippines during US Occupation.” University of British Columbia, Department of Sociology (March 12).
2008. Invited Lecture. “Global Fields and Imperial Forms,” Boston College, Department of Sociology Colloquia Series (November 11)
2008. Invited Lecture. “Empire of Promises: Constructing US Colonialism in Puerto Rico,” Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (October 21)
2008. Invited Lecture. “American Empire and the Politics of Meaning,” University of British Columbia, Law & Society Program (April 14)
2008. Invited Lecture. “American Empire and the Politics of Meaning,” Colloquium on Comparative Research, Watson Institute, Brown University (March 19)
2008. Invited Seminar Guest. Discussion of my work at “Theory and Research in Development” Graduate Seminar (Profs. Rich Snyder and Barbara Stallings), Development Studies, Brown University (March 20)
J. Go, Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae, p. 17
2008. Invited Lecture. “The Philippines and US Imperial Identity,” Philippine Palimpsests Conference, University of Illinois (March 7-8)
2008. Invited Lecture. “Empire of Signs,” for the “Shifting Empires” lecture series, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington with Funds from the Ford Foundation (January 29)
2007. Invited Presentation. “Hegemony and Empire” Comparative Research Workshop, Yale University
2006. Invited Plenary Speaker. “America’s Imperial Identity and the Philippines” First Philippine Studies Conference of Japan, Tokyo.
2006. Invited Presentation. “The Provinciality of American Empire” Presented at the Political History Seminar, Boston University, February 15, 2006.
2006. Invited Presentation. “Diffusion through Empire?” Presented at the Radcliffe Seminar on the Transnational Bases of Ideas and Circulation, Cambridge, February 11-12, 2006.
2005. Invited Presentation. “American Empire and Exceptionalism Reconsidered.” Collaborative Project on the Philippines and Japan Under the US Shadow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Tokyo University, Tokyo. November 12-13..
2004. Invited Lecture. "American Empire and the Politics of Meaning in Puerto Rico and the Philippines." University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lecture series sponsored by the Mellon Workshop in the Humanities, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Latin American Studies Center, January 30.
2003. Invited Presentation. Presentation to the Social Science Research Council's "Lessons of Empire" conference, New York, September 27.
2003. Invited Presentation. "Cultural Repertoires and Cultural Systems?" Social Movements Seminar, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.
2003. Invited Lecture. “Modes of America's Overseas Empire: the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam and Samoa.” Symposium on the Bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase, Feb. 21-22 (Sponsored by the Department of Government, Law School, and Lyndon Johnson Library at the University of Texas- Austin)
2001. Invited Presentation. "Discourses of Difference in the US Empire.” Empire and Metropole Conference, Yale Center of International Studies, Yale University.
2000. Invited Presentation. "Cultural Transformation in the American Colonial Empire." University of Michigan, Department of Sociology, Seminar on Colonialism and Empire
FOREIGN LANGUAGES Spanish (conversational and reading) Tagalog (conversational and reading with focus on historical Tagalog)
REFERENCES available upon request