Curriculum Vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE

Fuyuki Kurasawa April 2006

GENERAL INFORMATION

Work Address: 2088 Vari Hall Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts tel: 416-736-2100, ext. 77990 York University fax: 416-736-5730 4700 Keele St. email: [email protected] Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada

Born 7 February 1972; Montréal, Québec, Canada Citizenship: Canadian Languages (spoken, read and written): English and French

Areas of Specialization: social, political and cultural theory; political sociology; cultural sociology and cultural studies; political economy; visual studies

Substantive Research: intercultural analysis of Western modernity; global justice and human rights; rethinking Canada; representations of distant suffering

Education

1996-2000: Ph.D., Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Ph.D. Thesis: "The Ethnological Imagination: Western Social Theory and the Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity" (Supervisors: Peter Beilharz, Johann Arnason, and Joel Kahn)

1993-1995: M.A., Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada M.A. Thesis: "Globalizations, Power, Marginality: Transnational Migrations and the Restructuring of the Urban" (thesis passed with distinction; Supervisors: Rianne Mahon and Michael Dolan)

1994: Participant, International Summer School in Advanced Social Theory, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

1990-1993: B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.), Political Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (graduated summa cum laude)

Current Position

July 2006- : Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

July 2001-July 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

Previous Positions

September 2003-August 2004: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale University September 2003-August 2004: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, New York University

September 1999-May 2000: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

March 1997-June 1999: Casual Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

May-June 1994: Visiting Research Fellow, Arbetslivscentrum (Swedish Centre for Working Life), Stockholm, Sweden

Honours and Awards

2004- : Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

2003-4: Fulbright Scholar, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, Foundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the U.S.A. and Council for International Exchange of Scholars 2003-4: Visiting Fellowship, Center for Cultural Sociology and Department of Sociology, Yale University 2003-4: Visiting Fellowship, Department of Sociology, New York University

2000-1: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York University

2000-2001: Fulbright Scholarship, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, Foundation for Educational Exchange Between Canada and the United States (declined) 2000-2001: Finalist (reversion list), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University

2000: Young Canadian Leader, The Globe and Mail newspaper (July 1 issue)

1998: Finalist, Leo P. Chall Dissertation Fellowship in the History of Sociology, International Sociological Association

1996-2000: Commonwealth Doctoral Fellowship, Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Association of Commonwealth Universities and Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee

1995: Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Carleton University 1994: Canadian Participant, Swedish-Canadian Academic Foundation Program 1993-1994: Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship (for study in the United Kingdom), Mackenzie King Scholarship Committee, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (declined) 1993-1994: British Council Postgraduate Scholarship (declined)

1993: University Silver Medal, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa 1990-1993: Dean's Honour List, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa

1988: Medal of the Governor General of Canada

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION AND STANDING

Publications

Books and Monographs

(forthcoming, under contract) The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, approx. 270 pages (expected publication date: 2007).

(forthcoming, under contract) Intersections and Interventions: Canadian Essays in Cultural Materialism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, approx. 230 pages (expected publication date: 2007).

(2004) The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 249 pages.

(1998) Co-editor, Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University (with C. Houston and A. Watson).

Chapters in Books

(forthcoming, accepted) "The Healing of Wounds: Forgiveness as a Cultural Practice." In Culture in the World, Vol. 2, eds. J. C. Alexander and I. Reed. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, approx. 30 pages (expected publication date: 2006).

(forthcoming, accepted) "An Animated Palimpsest: The City and the Cinematic Work of Memory." In Urban Experiences and Cultural Identities, ed. I. Szeman. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, approx. 30 pages (expected publication date: 2006).

(2006) "The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire." In Empire's Law: The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World,' ed. A. Bartholomew. London: Pluto Press, pp. 297-312.

(2004) "Jak propojit technovedu, etiku a demokracii." [Linking Technoscience, Ethics, and Democracy] In Globalni spravedlnost a demokracie [Global Justice and Democracy], ed. M. Hrubec. Prague: Filosofia, pp. 313-350.

(2003) "Finding Godot?: Bringing Popular Culture Into Canadian Political Economy." In Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation, eds. W. Clement and L. F. Vosko. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 467-492.

(1999) "La rencontre de l’altérité: vers une hybridité politique." ["The Encounter with Alterity: Towards a Political Hybridity"] In Pluralisme et délibération: Enjeux de la philosophie politique contemporaine, eds. K. Mellos and P. Savidan. Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press, pp. 173-193.

(1998) “Myth 11: We Benefit from Their Hunger.” (principal authors: F. Moore Lappé et al.). In F. Moore Lappé et al. World Hunger: Twelve Myths, 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, pp. 147-163.

Articles (Refereed)

(2004) "A Cosmopolitanism from Below: Alternative Globalization and the Creation of a Solidarity without Bounds." European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie 45, 2: 233-255.

(2004) "The Global Culture of Prevention and the Work of Foresight." Constellations 11, 4: 453-475.

(2004) "Alexander and the Cultural Refounding of American Sociology." Thesis Eleven 79: 53-64.

(2004) "Cinema, or, An Art of Urban Memory in an Age of Forgetting." Public 29: 24-49.

(2004) “The Ties to Bind: Techno-Science, Ethics and Democracy.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 30, 2: 159-186. Czech version in Filosofický Časopis [Philosophical Journal] 51, 6 (2003): 969-991.

(2003) "Primitiveness and the Flight from Modernity: Sociology and the Avant-Garde in Interwar France." Economy and Society 32, 1: 7-28.

(2003) “Prolegomena to an Intercultural Critical Theory.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 22: 325- 348.

(2002) “Which Barbarians at the Gate? From the Culture Wars to Market Orthodoxy in the North American Academy.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39, 3: 323-347.

(2002) “A Requiem for the Primitive.” History of the Human Sciences 15, 3: 1-24.

(2000) "The Ethnological Counter-Current in Sociology." International Sociology 15, 1: 11-31.

(2000) "At the Crossroads of the Radical: The Challenges of Castoriadis’s Thought." Theory, Culture & Society 17, 4: 145-155.

(1999) "The Exotic Effect: Foucault and the Question of Cultural Alterity." European Journal of Social Theory 2, 2: 147-165.

(1998) "The Adventures of the Structure." Thesis Eleven 55: 83-96.

Papers in Published Conference Proceedings

(1998) "Introduction to Section 3: Spaces of Power, the Power of Space." In Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space, eds. C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, pp. 169-174.

(1998) "The Death of Myth and the Reechantment of the City: Surrealism and Modernity in Interwar Paris." In Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space, eds. C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, pp. 199-205.

(1997) "Globalizations and the Urban: Worlds in Flow, Worlds of Flows." In Ambivalence and Hope: Social Theory and Policy Making in a Globalizing, Postmodern Australia, eds. M. Booth and T. Hogan. Perth: Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, pp. 72-80.

Encyclopedia Entries

(2005) “Henri Lefebvre.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, ed. G. Ritzer. London and Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 438-440.

Reviews

(1999) "Review of M. Augé's A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology." Journal of Intercultural Studies 20, 1: 108-110. (1998) "Review of P. Rabinow's Essays on the Anthropology of Reason." Thesis Eleven 54: 133-137. (1997) "Review of J.-K. Gibson-Graham’s The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy and T. Ebert’s Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire and Labour in Late Capitalism." Thesis Eleven 51: 126-130. (1997) "Review of B. Hindess’s Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault." Thesis Eleven 50: 131-135.

Translations

(1999) Jullien, F. "A Philosophical Use of China: An Interview with François Jullien." Thesis Eleven 57: 113-130. (1999) Castoriadis, C. "The Psychical and Social Roots of Hate." Free Associations. (1998) Berque, A. "Landscape and Immanence." Thesis Eleven 54: 106-116. (1998) Wieviorka, M. et al. "The Work of Norbert Elias: Its Content and its Reception." Thesis Eleven 54: 89-103.

Other

(2000-1): “Critical Theory Meets the Cam: Reflections on the Mid-Term Conference.” Theory (the Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association), Winter: 2-3. (1996) "Toppling the Pyramid: Organizing Against Subcontracting." Third Force 6, 3: 20-28.

Invited Lectures

"A Message in a Bottle: The Practice of Bearing Witness." Colloquia Series, Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, February 2004

"Globalization and the Problem of Human Solidarity." Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, February 2004

"Between Principle and Practice: The New Imperative of Prevention of Catastrophe and the Work of Global Civil Society." Rules Speaker Series, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, January 2004

“Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethical Practice.” Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, March 2003

“Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethical Practice.” Centre on Values and Ethics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, February 2003

“A Critical Theory of Techno-Science.” Workshop Series, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada, April 2001

“Questions of Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Sociology.” Workshop Series, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada, September 2000

"Critical Theory's Ethnological Counter-Current." Culture Roundtable, Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York, USA, March 1999

Conference Presentations (Refereed)

"On the Work of Global Justice: Conceptualizing Human Rights as Practices," Globalisation and the Future of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2005 "Sociological Theory's Turn to Global Justice: An Invitation, a Plea, or Perhaps, a Provocation," Junior Theorists Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, USA, August 2005 "The Healing of Wounds: On Forgiveness as a Cultural Practice," Annual Conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, USA, May 2005

"Transnational Social Movements and the Prevention of Global Catastrophes," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, USA, August 2004 "The Contemporary Work of Foresight," Annual Meeting of the International Social Theory Consortium, Toronto, Canada, June 2004 "Cinematic Memory and the City," 'Urban Experiences and Cultural Identities' Conference, Art Gallery of Hamilton and McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, April 2004 "The Creation of Transnational Solidarity Through an Alternative Globalization," Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 2004

“Multiple Modernities: Between Relativism and Universalism,” Globalization and Multiple Modernities Workshop, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003 “Dystopian Foresight and the Future of the Social,” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Halifax, Canada, June 2003 “Cinema, An Urban Art of Memory in an Age of Forgetting,” Urban Space, Media and Technology Symposium, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, April 2003

“Calhoun’s Cosmopolitan Critical Theory,” A Day with Craig Calhoun Conference, Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2002 “Witnessing: A Boundary-Exploration,” 15th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002 “The New Culture of Capitalism,” 15th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002 “Alexander’s Vision of the Civil Sphere: Prospects and Problems,” A Day with Jeffrey Alexander Conference, Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2002

“Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethical Practice.” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Toronto, Canada, May 2002 “A Message in a Bottle: Bearing Witness to the 20th Century,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Annual International Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2002

“Ethical Autonomy in the Techno-Scientific Age.” Second Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, July 2001 “Critical Theory, Ethics, and Techno-Science,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Annual International Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2001 “The Ties that Bind: Ethics, Democracy and Techno-Science,” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, May 2001 “Two More Solitudes: Awaiting Canadian Political Economy’s Cultural Turn,” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, May 2001 “Finding Godot: Bringing Popular Culture Into Canadian Political Economy,” Canadian Political Economy Conference, University of Toronto, March 2001

"Prolegomena to an Intercultural Critical Theory," Mid-Term Conference, Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2000 "Weber and the Intercultural Foundations of Critical Theory," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, August 2000

"A Response to the 'Another Foucault' Panel," Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, March 1999

"The Ethnological Imagination and Other Modernities," Alternative Modernities Conference, Ashworth Centre for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, November 1998

"The Ethnological Imagination and a Critical Hermeneutics of European Modernity," Annual Conference, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1998 "Scientific Mythologies: Lévi-Strauss and Fin-de-siècle Primitiveness," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 1998 "In the Shadow of the Other: Durkheim’s Anthropological Imaginary," 14th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, July 1998 "Primitivism and the Death of the Sacred: The French School of Sociology and the Parisian Avant- Garde," 14th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, July 1998

"On Civilized Savagery: Rousseau, European Modernity and the Primitive Condition," The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, December 1997 "Urban Myth-Making in Interwar Paris," Cities, Communities, Regions Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997 "Rousseau on History and Culture," Annual Conference, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1997

"Foucault and the Cultural Other," The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 1996 "Durkheim on the Modern and the Primitive," The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 1996 "Durkheim's Notions of Modernity and Primitiveness," Annual Conference, School of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1996 "Globalizations and the Urban: Worlds in Flow, Worlds of Flows," Social Theory and Policy Making in a Globalizing, Postmodern Australia Conference, Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, April 1996

"Epistemologies of Globalization: On Constructing Materialist Feminist Reading Strategies," York MUNS-Network Symposium on Global Governance and Change, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada, May 1995

Research Support

2005-8: "The Making of a Global Culture of Human Rights: Towards a Sociological Cosmopolitanism," Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $129,090

2003-4: "Out of the Ashes: On Transnational Humanitarianism," Fulbright Fellowship Grant, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, US$15,000

2002-5: "Practices of Global Justice," Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $80,020

2000-2: "Science, Ethics, and the Public Sphere: Understanding and Overcoming the Great Divide," Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $5,000

2001: Small Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York University, $3,000

2001: Conference Travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York University, $1,000

1998-1999: Grants for Overseas Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, $3,500

1994: David Lewis Research Honorarium, David Lewis Trust Fund, Toronto, Canada, $3,000

Contributions to the Profession

Event Organization

Chair and Organizer, 'Global Justice and the Future of Human Rights in a Changing World' Plenary (with Craig Calhoun, Nancy Fraser, and Will Kymlicka), Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, Canada, June 2006

Co-Chair, 'Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Gender and Work Database' Roundtable, Gender and Work Database Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 2004

Chair and Organizer, ‘Rethinking the Social’ Panel (with Bruce Curtis, Brian Singer, and Lorna Weir), Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Halifax, Canada, June 2003

Chair and Organizer, ‘In the Trenches: Problems and Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography’ Panel (with Loic Wacquant, Rinaldo Walcott, Tim Diamond, and Tara Milbrandt), York University, Toronto, Canada, April 2003

Chair and Co-Organizer, ‘Market-Driven Politics’ Panel (with Leo Panitch and Colin Leys), Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, 2002

Chair, Panel, 'Perspectives on Social Inequality: Issues of Race, Gender, and Class Worldwide' Conference, York University/Tokyo Foundation, Toronto, Canada, September 2001

Co-Organizer, ‘Alternative Modernities’ Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 1998

Co-Organizer, Socialist Seminar Series, Carleton University, 1994-1995

Co-Organizer, ‘Postmodernism and Post-Fordism’ Workshop, Carleton University, 1994

Offices in Professional Organizations

2002- : Board Member (elected), Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association

Lectures to Professional Organizations

"Shifting Terrain: The New Cultural Critique of Capitalism." Studies in Political Economy Annual Board Meeting, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, January 2004

Editing

Consulting Editor, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory, eds. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H.-P. Müller. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

Manuscript Reviewing

journals: Thesis Eleven; Theory, Culture and Society; Studies in Political Economy; History of the Human Sciences; Constellations presses: University of Minnesota Press

Grant Application Assessment

2005: external reviewer for Standard Research Grant Program application, Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Membership of Editorial Advisory Boards

Thesis Eleven Studies in Political Economy

Membership in Professional Organizations

International Sociological Association (ISA): 1998- (Research Committee on Sociological Theory; Research Committee on the History of Sociology)

American Sociological Association (ASA): 1998- (Theory Section; Political Sociology Section; Sociology of Culture Section)

International Studies Association: 2003-

Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association: 2000-

The Australian Sociological Association: 1996-1999 Canadian Political Science Association: 1990-1993, 2000-2001

TEACHING

Undergraduate

Courses Taught

2002-3: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University 2001-2: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University 2000-1: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06C), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

Courses Co-Taught

2005-6: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (with Naomi Couto) 2004-5: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (with Adam Green) 1998: 'Honours Seminar' (SOC 4HON), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 1997: 'Culture, Society and Theory' (SOC 2/3TCS), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 1997: 'The Sociology of Everyday Life' (SOC 2/3EL), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Course Developed

2000-6: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (course developed and redeveloped every academic year)

B.A. Honours Thesis Supervision

completed: Sandy Hsu (Sociology)

Graduate

Courses Taught

2005-6: 'Theorizing Modernity' (SOCI 6195.06), Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University 2004-5: 'Theorizing Modernity' (SOCI 6195.06), Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University 2000: 'Selected Problems in Political Economy II: Capitalism and Modern Culture' (44.552X/53.555), Institute of Political Economy and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Courses Co-Taught

2003-4: Cultural Sociology Workshop (SOC628a), Department of Sociology, Yale University (coordinators: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Eyerman, and Philip Smith) 2002-3: 'Selected Problems in Classical and Contemporary Theory' (SOCI 6190.06), Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University (with Jos Lennards) 2001-2: 'Selected Problems in Classical and Contemporary Theory' (SOCI 6190.06), Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University (with Jos Lennards)

Course Developed

2004-5: 'Theorizing Modernity' (SOCI 6195.06), Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

Graduate Supervision

Ph.D., in progress: Matthew Hayes (Sociology); Mervyn Horgan (Sociology); Marcia Oliver (Sociology; co-supervision); Philip Steiner (Sociology) M.A., completed: Behzad Sarmadi (Anthropology; co-supervision)

Graduate Committee Membership

Ph.D., completed: Nancy Cook (Sociology); Paul Moore (Sociology) Ph.D., in progress: Albert Banerjee (Sociology); Craig McFarlane (Sociology); J. J. McMurtry (Social and Political Thought); Peter Mallory (Sociology); Megan Salhus (Environmental Studies) Ph.D., suspended: Carlos Neves (Sociology) M.A., completed: Stefka Lubenova (Sociology); Tomoko Mizuguchi (Sociology)

SERVICE

University Service

Departmental Level

2005-6: Member, Appointments Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University Member, Hiring Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2004-5: Member, Appointments Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University Member, Hiring Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2002-3: Member, Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (half-year term) Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2001-2: Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2000-1: Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2000-3: Founder and Organizer, York Annual Sociology Lecture, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (annual lecturers: Dorothy Smith, Barbara Marshall, Loïc Wacquant)

Graduate Program Level

2005-6: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2004-5: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2002-3: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2001-2: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University

Faculty Level

2000- : Co-Founder and Co-Coordinator, York Summer Program in Social and Cultural Theory, Graduate Program in Communication and Culture and Graduate Program in Sociology, York University

University Level

2005- : Organizing Committee, Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture

Workshops

2005-6: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2004-5: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2002-3: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2001-2: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2001-2: Teaching Theory Workshop, Centre for the Support of Teaching and Graduate Program in Sociology, York University

Community Service

2005- : Contributor and monthly columnist on U.S. affairs, Radio-Canada

2005- : Sponsor, World Press Photo Exhibition, Toronto, Canada

October 5, 2005: 'Photojournalism and the Moral Dilemmas of Bearing Witness,' World Press Photo Exhibition Educational Evening, Allen Lambert Galleria, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada

November 2, 2004: Interview with Radio-Canada (CJBC, 'Ondes urbaines' radio show, Toronto, Canada), on the U.S. presidential election

October 20, 2004: Interview with Radio-Canada (CJBC, 'Ondes urbaines' radio show, Toronto, Canada), on The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity

November 7, 2003: 'Global Classroom Fulbright Symposium,' Metro International, New York City, USA

December 5, 2002: ‘Science Fiction and Modern Society,’ Lecture to Oakwood Collegiate Institute, Toronto, Canada

September-December 1995: Volunteer Researcher, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), Oakland, CA, USA

September-December 1995: Volunteer Journalist and Researcher, Third Force magazine and Center for Third World Organizing, Oakland, CA, USA

December 19, 1994: Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources Development, Ottawa, Canada

November 7, 1994: Presentation to the Community Education Forum on the Social Security Review, Ottawa, Canada

April 2006