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Specialization
in
Political
Economy and Global Social Change
About
Our Faculty
Steven
Brint (PhD,
1982, Harvard University) is an internationally recognized authority
on middle class politics and the politics of higher education. Professor
Brint's forthcoming book, The Future of the City of Intellect:
The Changing American University, a study of continuity and
change in American colleges and universities since 1970. His book,
Diverted Dream, received the 1991 American Education Research
Association's "Outstanding Book" award and the 1991 Council
of Colleges and Universities' "Outstanding Research Publication." His other two books are Schools and Societies (1998) and
In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics
and Public Life (1994). His work on the professions and middle-class
politics has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Work
and Occupations, Sociological Theory and in volumes edited by
such scholars as William Julius Wilson, Morris Fiorina, Theda Skocpol,
and Terry Nichols Clark.
Christopher
Chase-Dunn
(PhD, Sociology, Stanford University, 1975) is the founder and co-editor
of the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research and directs
the Institute for Research on World Systems at UC-Riverside. He
is currently studying international economic, political and cultural
integration of the world-system over the past 200 years and working
on a comparative study of stateless, state-based, and modern world-systems.
He received the Distinguished Publication Award, Political Economy
of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association
for his book, Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy
(1989). His many books also include Globalization on the Ground:
Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development (2001, with
Nelson Amaro and Susanne), The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism:
Toward Global Democracy (2000, with Terry Boswell), and Rise
and Demise: Comparing World-Systems (1997, with Thomas D. Hall).
Chase-Dunn was elected a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in 2001.
Robert
Hanneman (PhD
1979, University of Wisconsin) is the author of books on welfare
state development, centralization in the structure of social service
delivery systems, medical care system performance, dynamic models
of sociological theories, and social network analysis methods. He
has done work in military and economic sociology, and is currently
examining the evolution of organizational populations and the evolution
of cooperation in the United States salt industry from 1800 to 2000.
His research areas include computational modeling (simulation) for
theory construction, economic sociology, social networks, political
and military sociology. He has published Collins, Randall and Robert
Hanneman. 1998. "Modeling the Interaction Ritual Theory of
Solidarity." Pp. 213-237 in P. Doreian and T. Fararo (eds.)
The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models. Gordon and
Breach; Russell, Raymond and Robert Hanneman. 2000. "The Use
of Part-Time Employees and Independent Contractors Among Small Enterprises
in Russia." Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol.
9: 187-208, Russell, Raymond and Robert Hanneman. (Forthcoming).
"The Role of Institutional Processes in the Formation of Worker
Cooperatives in Israel." In J.R. Hollingsworth and Karl Mueller
(eds.) Socioeconomics: New Perspectives. Rowan and Littlefield.
Augustine
Kposowa (PhD
1990, Ohio State University) works on three general areas: Social
Epidemiology, Political Economy, and Criminology. Dr. Kposowa is
currently studying the effects of patients' race or ethnic background
on physician diagnostic decision-making and treatment. In the field
of political economy, he works on identifying the sources of violence,
civil wars, and military coups détat in Post-Colonial Africa,
and the consequences of these events on human quality of life. He
is at present working (with J. Craig Jenkins) on the causes of global
civil conflict in the post-Soviet era. He also studies the impact
of immigration on the U.S. labor market and on crime rates across
states and metropolitan areas. In criminology, Dr. Kposowa's primary
emphasis is on the sources of violent victimization, notably homicide,
and the role of social disadvantage (e.g. poverty, unemployment,
and racial discrimination) on crime. He has published in numerous
scientific journals, including Psychological Medicine, Journal
of Epidemiology & Community Health, American Journal of Industrial
Medicine, Ethnic & Racial Studies, British Journal of Sociology,
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Forces, American Journal
of Sociology, and American Sociological Review.
Toby Miller 's teaching and research cover the media, sport, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy. Toby edits the journal Television & New Media (Sage Publications), is the author and editor of over 20 books, and has published essays in more than 30 journals and 50 books. He is Editor and Co-Editor of book series Popular Culture and Everyday Life (Peter Lang) and Sport and Culture (University of Minnesota Press), and has also been Editor and Co-Editor of the Journal of Sport & Social Issues (Sage Publications) and Social Text (Duke University Press) and the book series Cultural Politics (University of Minnesota Press). His current research covers the success of Hollywood overseas, the links between culture and citizenship, and anti-Americanism.
Ellen
Reese (PhD,
1998, University of California, Los Angeles) examines the politics
of welfare in the United States, past and present. She is currently
writing a book comparing the 1950s welfare backlash with the present
one. Her book focuses on how race, class, and gender interests conspired
to limit poor mothers' welfare rights in both periods, and why welfare
retrenchment has worsened in recent years. With John Krinsky (City
University of New York), she has begun work on a second book, which
focuses on the rise of welfare rights activism in Los Angeles, Milwaukee,
and New York City since passage of the 1996 federal welfare reform
act. This book focuses on how local political economies and demographic
contexts present different challenges and opportunities for challenging
welfare privatization, the lack of child care, workfare policies,
and immigrants' welfare rights. Her research has been published
in Gender & Society, Work and Occupations, Social Politics:
International Journal on Gender, State, and Society, Journal of
Poverty, and Race, Gender, and Class.
Raymond
Russell (PhD,
1979, Harvard University) focuses on how workers can participate
in the ownership and control of their workplaces. His book Sharing
Ownership in the Workplace (1985) examined forms of employee
ownership in the United States, while Utopia in Zion (1995)
surveyed the history of worker cooperatives in Israel. Since 1996,
Russell has been investigating the relationship between work and
ownership in the contemporary Russian economy. Articles based on
these studies have appeared in such journals and series as Work
and Occupations, Industrial Relations, Research in
the Sociology of Organizations, and Research in the Sociology
of Work.
Associated
Faculty
Juliann
Allison, Political
Science
Eugene
Anderson, Anthropology
Wendy
Ashmore, Anthropology
Piya
Chatterjee, Women's
Studies
John
Cioffi, Political
Science
Stephen
Cullenberg, Economics
Christine
Gailey, Women's
Studies
Keith
Griffin, Economics
Gary
Dymski, Economics
Ray
Kea, History
Bronwyn
Leebaw, Political
Science
Tom
Patterson, Anthropology
David
Pion-Berlin, Political
Science
Thomas
Reifer, Associate Director of
Institute for Research on World-Systems
Ivan
Strenski, Religious
Studies
Richard
Sutch, Economics
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