December 2015 CURRICULUM VITAE—ABRIDGED VERSION
Beverly Judith Silver Department of Sociology The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 USA Telephone: (410) 516-7635 Fax: (410) 516-7590 E-mail:
[email protected] Education: 1980
Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A., magna cum laude and with honors in Economics
1992
State University of New York - Binghamton, Sociology, Ph.D., with distinction
Current Academic Post: 2002-
Professor, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University
2012-
Director, Arrighi Center for Global Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
2015-
Chair, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University
Past Academic Posts: 1998-2002
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University
1992-1998
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University
1992-1999
Senior Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton
Selected Distinguished Publication and Teaching Awards: 2006
Distinguished Academic Literature Award of the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the Korean edition of Forces of Labor
2005
The Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association (main ASA publication award) for Forces of Labor
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2005
Book Award (Honorable Mention), Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association (for Forces of Labor)
2004
Distinguished Book Award, Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association (for Forces of Labor)
2001
Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World System Section (for Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System)
1996
Distinguished Publication (Article) Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World System Section (for articles in Review 1995)
1996
Distinguished Faculty Award (for teaching), Johns Hopkins University
Selected Grants and Fellowships (partial list, 2006-2015): 2015-2017
Beverly J. Silver (PI), "Economic and Geopolitical Crises and Waves of Social Unrest, 1851-present", January 1, 2015-December 31, 2017, $254,554.
2016
Beverly J. Silver (PI), Daniel Pasciuti (co-PI), "The Practical Ethics of University Engagement: Lessons from the Local and Global", JHU Explorations in Practical Ethics Grants, 2016, $35,850.
2012-2015
Beverly J. Silver and Chris Nealon (co-PIs), “Capitalism in Transition, Capitalism in Crisis”, Sawyer Seminar, Mellon Foundation, 2012-2015, $175,000
2012-2014
Beverly J. Silver (with PhD students Dan Pasciuti and Sahan Savas Karatasli), “Bridging the Gap: Curriculum Innovations to Facilitate Undergraduate Research in the Social Sciences”, JHU Center for Educational Resources, Grants for Humanities/Social Sciences, 2012-2014, $31,240
2011-2015
Senior Fellow, Kolleg Postwachstums- gesellschaften, Institüt fur Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
2011-2012
"Generating Online Databases With Maps and Timelines" (with PhD student Sahan Savas Karatasli), Center for Educational Resources, Technology Fellowship Grant, 2011-2012, $5,000
2010-2012
Research Associate (honorary), Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, January 1, 2010-December 31, 2012.
2010-2011
Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research (co-PI: Ben Scully), “Class Formation and the Decline of Work [South Africa]”, National Science Foundation (#1032206), August 2010-August 2011, $10,000
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2010-2011
Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research (co-PI: Shaohua Zhan), “Rapid Rural Economic Growth [China]”, National Science Foundation (#1032179), August 2010-August 2011, $10,000
2009
Principal Investigator, Doctoral Dissertation Research (co-PI: Kevan Harris), “State Welfare and State-Building (Iran)”, National Science Foundation Sociology Program, Award #0927793 (declined due to overlapping award from SSRC.)
2007
Principal Investigator, Dissertation Improvement Grant (Co-PI: Nicole Aschoff), “Globalization and Job Movement in the Automobile Industry, 1970-2006, National Science Foundation, Sociology Program, Award #0726836.
2007
Honorary Visiting Professor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
2006
Principal Investigator, Dissertation Improvement Grant (Co-PI: Lu Zhang), “Globalization, Market Reform and the Dynamics of Labor Unrest in China, 1980 to the present: A Case Study of the Automobile Industry”, National Science Foundation, Sociology Program, Award 0726836
Publications: Books: Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 2nd printing 2005. 3rd printing 2006. 4th printing 2008. Spanish translation, Ediciones AKAL (Madrid), 2005 German translation, Assoziation A (Berlin), 2005 Korean translation (with new forward by author), Greenbee Publishers, 2005 Portuguese translation, Boitempo (Brazil; with new forward by author), 2005 Italian translation, Bruno Mondadori (Milano), 2008 Polish translation, Le Monde Diplomatique Books (Warsaw), 2009. Turkish translation, Yordam Kitap Publishing House (Istanbul), 2009 Persian (Farsi) translation, Alfabetmaxima, 2011 Ukranian translation of chapter 5, in Commons (Kiev), 2012. Chinese translation (with new introduction by author), Social Science Academic Press, [Chinese Academy of Social Sciences] (Beijing), 2013. Persian (Farsi) translation (second Farsi translation), DotBook, Tehran, 2014. Czech translation, Grimmus (Prague), translation completed, in press. French translation, Editions de l'Asymétrie, in progress Swedish translation, Federativs Förlag, in progress. English reprint: Chapter 1 reprinted in The Transnational Reader, edited by Peggy Levitt and Sanjiv Khargram, Routledge 2007. 3
Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver (with I. Ahmed, K. Barr, S. Hisaeda, P.K. Hui, K. Ray, T. Reifer, M. Shih and E. Slater), Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Second printing 2000. Spanish translation, Ediciones AKAL (Madrid), 2001 Portuguese translation, Contraponto (Rio de Janeiro), 2001 Chinese translation, San Lian Shudian (Beijing), 2003 Italian translation, Bruno Mondadori (Milano), 2003 Journal Special Issue: Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi and Melvyn Dubofsky, editors, Labor Unrest in the WorldEconomy, 1870-1990, special issue of Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pages 1-206. Articles and Book Chapters (partial list): Beverly J. Silver and Sahan Savas Karatasli, "Historical Dynamics of Capitalism and Labor Movements" in D. della Porta and M. Diani (editors), Oxford Handbook of Social Movements, Oxford University Press, 2015, pages 133-145. Beverly J. Silver, "Labor, War and World Politics" chapter 1 (lead chapter) in Kees van der Pijl, ed., The International Political Economy of Production. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015, pages 1-22. Beverly J. Silver, “Theorizing the Working Class in 21st Century Global Capitalism”, in M. Atzeni, Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues, Palgrave, 2014, 46-69. Beverly J. Silver, "On the World Labour Group Data Project" in Workers of the World: International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflicts, vol. 1, no. 2, January 2013, 238-247. Beverly J. Silver, “Superpower Blues”, Contexts, Summer 2012. Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, “The End of the Long Twentieth Century” in Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian, editors, Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown, New York University Press, 2011, 53-68. German translation: “Das Ende des langen 20. Jahrhunderts”, in A. Demirovic, J. Duck, F. Becker, P. Bader, eds., VielfachKrise: Im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus, VSA Verlag (Hamburg), 2011, 211-228. Portuguese translation: “O Fim Do Longo Seculo XX”, in Pedro Antonio Viera, Rosangela de Lima Viera and Felipe Amin Filomeno, editors, O Brasil e o capitalism historico: passado e presente na analise de Sistemas-Mundo, EdUNESP, the State University of São Paulo Press, 2012, 77-96. 4
Beverly J. Silver, “D’une hégémonie à l’autre”, Sciences Humaines, (Paris), May-June 2010. Spanish translation: De una hegemonía a otra”, Filosofía Hoy (Madrid), special issue: La Gran Historia Del Capitalismo, Guia 1, 2011. Beverly J. Silver and Lu Zhang, “China: Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest” chapter 9 in China and Global Capitalism, edited by H. Hung, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, 174-187. Italian translation: “Cina: l’epicentro emergente del conflitto operaio mondiale” in La Lunga accumulazione originaria: Politica e lavoro nel mercato mondiale, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2008, pages 177-204. German translation: “China als neuer Mittelpunkt der globalen Arbetiterunruhe”, Prokla 161 (Berlin), no. 4, December 2010, 605-618. Chinese translation: “You Ziben de Difang Jiu You Chongtu: Yi Zhongguo Wei Li”, 公共生活评论, Public Life Review (Social Science Academic Press, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), 2011. Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Capitalisme and (dés-)ordre mondial” (updated), Histoire Globale, Mondialisations et Capitalisme, edited by Philippe Beaujard, Laurent Berger and Philippe Norel, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2009, 227-260. [In French] Portuguese translation: In T. Dos Santos and C. E. Martins, eds. Long Duration and Conjuncture in Contemporary Capitalism, Federal University of Santa Catarina Press, 2008. Italian translation: “Capitalismo e (dis)ordine mondiale” in book of same title edited by G. Cesarale and M. Pianta, Manifestolibri, Roma, 2010, 143-180. Beverly J. Silver, “Is Another Labor Movement Possible” (symposium essay), Contemporary Sociology, 37, 1, 2008, pages 4-9. Beverly J. Silver, “Donde el capital va, el conflicto capital-trabajo también irá”, Viento Sur, No. 86, May 2006. Beverly J. Silver, “Labor Upsurges: From Detroit to Ulsan and Beyond”, Critical Sociology, vol. 31, no. 3, pages 439-452, 2005. Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer, “Industrial Convergence and the Persistence of the North-South Income Divide: A Rejoinder”, Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2005. Beverly J. Silver, “Labor, Globalization and World Politics”, in Critical Globalization Studies, edited by Richard Appelbaum and William Robinson, Routledge Press, 2005 Beverly J. Silver, “Labor, War and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in Historical 5
Perspective”, in Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System, edited by Berthold Unfried, Marcel van der Linden and Christine Schindler (ITH, vol. 38), Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2004 German translation, Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, (Berlin), January, 2004; Hungarian translation, Egyenlito (Budapest), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 34-43, 2004; Swedish translation, Folkrorelser och Protester, 2005 Beverly J. Silver, “Rejoinder”, response to Symposium of Reviews of Beverly J. Silver’s Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870, in In Critical Solidarity (American Sociological Association), Winter 2003 Reprinted in Debate, (South Africa), Spring 2004 Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, “Polanyi’s ‘Double Movement’: The Belle Époques of U.S. and British World Hegemony Compared”, Politics and Society, June 2003 Reprinted in J. Friedman and C. Chase-Dunn, eds., Hegemonic Declines: Past and Present. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, 153-182. Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer, “Response”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, 1, Spring, 2003, 39-42 Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer, “Industrial Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North-South Divide”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, 1, Spring, 2003, 3-31 Reprinted in J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite, editors, Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Social Change, Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2007, pages 320-334 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Capitalism and World (Dis)Order”, Review of International Studies, 27, December, 2001, 961-983 Reprinted in M. Cox, T. Dunne and K. Booth, editors, Empires, Systems and States: Great Transformations in International Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, “Workers North and South” in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors, Socialist Register 2001 (Theme: Working Classes, Global Realities). London: Merlin Press, 2000, 51-74 Turkish translation, Ozgur Universite Forumu, March 2001, 100-126 Italian translation, La rivista del manifesto, July/Aug 2001, 18-24 & Sept. 2001, 47-54. Reprinted in L. Amoore, ed, The Global Resistance Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2005, 273-288.
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Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Hegemonic Transitions, Past and Present” in Political Power and Social Theory, vol.13, 1999, 239-275 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Scholarly Controversy: Rejoinder” in Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 13, 1999, 307-315 Beverly J. Silver, "Turning Points in Workers' Militancy in the World Automobile Industry, 1930s1990s", in Research in the Sociology of Work, vol. 7, 1997, 43-71 Beverly J. Silver, "Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts and Measurement" in Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, 7-34 Beverly J. Silver, "World Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves and Cycles of Hegemony", Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, 155-92 Beverly J. Silver, "Cycles of Hegemony and Labor Unrest in the Contemporary World-System" in Volker Bornschier and Pete Lengyel (eds.) World Society Studies, Volume 3, 1993, 339-359 Beverly J. Silver, “Class Struggle and Kondratieff Waves, 1870 to the present" in Alfred Kleinknecht, Ernest Mandel and Immanuel Wallerstein (eds.), New Findings in Long-Wave Research, St. Martin's Press, London, 1992, 279-296 Dutch translation, Vlaams Marxistisch Tijkschrift, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1991 Beverly J. Silver, "World-Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict" in Inga Brandell (ed.), Workers in Third World Industrialization, Macmillan Press, London, 1991, 217-233 Beverly J. Silver, "The Contradictions of Semiperipheral Success: The Case of Israel" in W. Martin (ed.), Semiperipheral States in the World-Economy, Greenwood Press, 1990, 161-181 Hebrew translation, Yad Tabenkin Institute Papers, No. 21, 1990 Italian translation, Marx Centouno, 1991 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, "Global Patterns of Labor Movements" in Cahier du GEMDEV (Paris), 12, June 1989, 84-106 Research Working Group on World Labor, “Global Patterns of Labor Movements in Historical Perspective,” Review (Fernand Braudel Center), X, 1, 137-55 Japanese translation in Immanuel Wallerstein, editor, Research Projects of the World System, Fujiwora Shoten, 2002, 115-136 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, "Labor Movements and Capital Migration: The U.S. and Western Europe in World-Historical Perspective" (with G. Arrighi) in C. Bergquist (ed.), Labor in the Capitalist World Economy, Beverly Hills: Sage, 1984, 183-216 Spanish translation, Zona Abierta, No. 29, July-December, 1983 Italian translation, Stato e Mercato, No. 11, April 1984
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Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (partial list, 2009-2015 only) Invited "expert" for workshop on archival development strategy, International Institute of Social History (Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences), Amsterdam, December 21, 2015. "The Developmentalist Illusion Redux?" (with D. Pasciuti), paper presented at session entitled "The Return of Modernization? Historical Trends in World Income Inequality", Social Science History Association Meeting, November 15, 2015. Panelist and Organizer, "The Current Global Upsurge of Labor and Social Unrest in WorldHistorical Perspective, A Round Table Discussion", Social Science History Association Meeting, November 14, 2015. Discussant on Paper Panel, "Retrench and Rebalance: Regional Responses to the Global Economic Crisis", Social Science History Association Meeting, Baltimore, November 12, 2015. Keynote Address, "Capitalism in Crisis/Transition and the Making/Unmaking/Remaking of World Labor" for Conference on "Labor, Capital, and South-South Development: Emergent Polycentrism in the Global Economy", Cornell University, October 8-9, 2015. "Labor and Systemic Cycles of Accumulation" Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Il Lungo XX Secolo Venti Anni Dopo, Università Ca'Foscari, Venice, November 20, 2014. "Lavoro e Flussi di Lavoro", Invited Lecture, Università Roma Tre, Rome, November 10, 2014. "Giovanni Arrighi and the Global Distribution of Wealth", Invited Lecture, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute (Italian Consulate) and the John D. Calandra Italian-American Institute, City University of New York, New York City, November 4, 2014. Keynote Lecture, Conference on "The Age of Riots", sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Comparative Cultures and Literature Forum, Cornell University, Ithaca, October 17-18, 2014. "Linking Macro- and Micro- Perspectives", Invited Lecture, Conference on “Linking Theory and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences – Major Challenges and Current Debates”, Humboldt University, Berlin, July 24-25, 2014. Invited Paper for Special Session organized for 10th Anniversary of Forces of Labor entitled "Geopolitical Turmoil and the Fate of the Labor Movement in the 21st Century: A Conversation with Beverly Silver" International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 16, 2014. "Reshuffling the World Proletariat", paper presented at the International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan, July 15, 2014. Keynote Lecture, "The Current Crisis of Capitalism in 50, 150 and 500 Years Perspectives", Congress of the Association Française d’Économie Politique (AFEP), ENS-Cachan, Paris, July 4, 2014.
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Public Lecture on "Theorizing the Working Class in 21st Century Global Capitalism" as part of "Distinguished Lecture Series - Critical Issues in Agrarian and Development Studies", organized by the College of Humanities and Development Studies, Chinese Agricultural University, Beijing, June 12, 2014. (Same lecture given at invited talks at Renmin University in Beijing on June 13 and at Henan University in Kaifeng, Henan, China on June 17, 2014.) Keynote Lecture on "Theorizing the Working Class in 21st Century Global Capitalism", 2014 Global Studies Association Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, June 7, 2014. Discussant for Thematic Session on "The End of Work?", Eastern Sociological Society 84th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February Feb 22, 2014. "Invisible Work, Invisible Protest", paper presented at Thematic Session on Invisible Work, Eastern Sociological Society 84th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February Feb 21, 2014. Session Organizer and Chair, "Financialization and Hegemonic Transitions: New Perspectives on The Long Twentieth Century, Eastern Sociological Association Society 84th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, February 20, 2014. Participant and Discussant (invited), Workshop on "Crisis, Critique, Capitalism", Maison Suger, Paris, November 21-23, 2013. Presenter and Respondent, "Forces of Labor Revisited", a special session organized by the North American Labor History Association in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the publication of Forces of Labor, North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 2526, 2013. Panelist, "Geographies of Labor: Theory and Methods", North American Labor History Conference, Detroit, October 25-26, 2013. Invited Convention Speaker on theme of "Inequality and Labor", United Autoworkers Competitive Shop Convention and Conference, Cincinnati, October 14-15, 2013. Keynote Speaker at Conference on "Labor and Global Solidarity: The US, China and Beyond", co-sponsored by Society for the Study of Social Problems and the American Sociological Association Section on Labor and Labor Movements, New York, August 12, 2013. "The Global System after 2008: Crisis of What?", invited paper presented at Conference on "Power and Justice in the Global Economy", co-sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Development and the American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World System, New York City, August 9, 2013. "Crisis, Social Inequality and the Current Challenges of Organized Labor", invited paper presented at Conference on "Power and Justice in the Global Economy", co-sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Development and the American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World System, New York City, August 9, 2013.
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"The Arrighi Center for Global Studies: Power, Social Justice and the Origins of Our Times", panel organized by Beverly Silver for the Conference on "Power and Justice in the Global Economy", co-sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Development and the American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World System. Panel chaired by Beverly Silver with papers presenting research results from current Arrighi Center research projects by JHU graduate students and with discussion from former Arrighi graduate students. Panel was part of the public launching of the JHU Arrighi Center for Global Studies. New York City, August 9, 2013. "A Global Crisis of Work", invited paper presented at "Work and Social Transformations in Contemporary Capitalism" Conference, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, University of Chicago, April 26-27, 2013. "The Developmentalist Illusion Redux?" (with D. Pasciuti), paper presented at the 2013 Political Economy of the World System Annual Spring Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 12-13, 2013. "Bringing Labor Back in: Workers in the Current Wave of Global Social Protest" (with S. Karatasli, S. Kumral, B. Scully and S. Upadhyay, paper presented at the 2013 Political Economy of the World System Annual Spring Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 12-13, 2013. "What Does the Rise of the South Mean for Development Theory", invited paper presented at the conference on The Rise of the South: Current Trends, Future Possibilities, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, April 8, 2013. "The Economics and Geopolitics of Chinese Involvement in Africa", invited paper presented at Annual Summer Conference of the African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe, January 14-18, 2013. “World Scale Waves of Protest and the Historical Evolution of Capitalism", paper presented at Presidential session, Social Science History Association Meeting, Vancouver, November 1-3, 2012. Discussant, “Histories of Capitalism as Global Histories”, Presidential session, Social Science History Association Meeting, Vancouver, November 1-3, 2012. Critic on ‘Author Meets Critics’ session for Korzeniewicz and Moran, Unveiling Inequality, American Sociological Association Meeting, Denver, August 20, 2012. Keynote Address, “From Crisis to Crisis” at opening conference for Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, June 15, 2012. Senior Fellow Workshop (pre-circulated paper), “Theorizing Working Class Formation in the 21st Century”, Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, June 27, 2012. “Revisiting Forces of Labor” 36th Political Economy of the World System Conference, “Labor Democracy and Global Capitalism”, Clark University, Worcester, MA, April 20-22, 2012. 10
“The Crisis of Global Capital and the Future of Labour”. Lecture at Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan Italy (with commentaries by Enzo Mingione, Scuola di dottorato SCISS, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca; Maurizio Ambrosini, Università degli Studi di Milano, Bianca Beccalli, Università degli Studi di Milano, David Benassi, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Vando Borghi, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Sabatino Dante, IRPPS CNR, Ota de Leonardis, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Enrica Morlicchio, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Giovanni Mottura, Università degli Studi di Modena, Enrico Pugliese, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Michele Salvati, Università degli Studi di Milano), Fondazione Fetrilnelli, Milan, Italy, March 21, 2012. “Alternative Forms of Accumulation From Below”, presented at 2012 Agrarian “Summer School” on the theme “Scramble for Africa’s Resources, Accumulation from Below and Food Security”, African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe, Jan 16-20, 2012. “Labour in the Contemporary Conjuncture” paper presented at the “Big Food in Africa” Conference, sponsored by Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, January 23-24, 2012. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Labor”, Invited Lecture, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS Think Tank Session), Shanghai, China, December 28, 2011. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Labor”, Invited Lecture, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, December 27, 2011. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Labor”, Invited Lecture, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 26, 2011. “Forces of Labor: Workers Movements and Globalization Since 1870” (set of 3 lectures), Zhong Shan (Sun-Yat Sen) University, Guangzhou, China, December 19, 20 and 21, 2011. “Theorizing the Working Class in Twenty-first Century Global Capitalism”, Invited lecture/paper, Tsinghua University, Beijing, December 15, 2011. “Theorizing the Working Class in Twenty-first Century Global Capitalism”, Invited lecture/paper, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 12, 2011. “Obama and the ‘American Century’, paper presented at the Social Science History Association Meeting, Boston, November 17-20, 2011. Discussant on Immanuel Wallerstein's Public Lecture, “Upsurge in Movements around the Globe: 1968 Redux?" at 2640 Center, Baltimore, November 3, 2011. Invited seminar paper for Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Precarious Work in Asia”, Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, October 27, 2011. Keynote speaker, “Jenseits des Langen 20. Jahrhunderts”, Anstelle Eines Abschlusses, Transformation Im Kapitalismus Und Darüber Hinaus, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, October 14, 2011. 11
“World-Systems Analysis and Labor: Transhistorical dimensions of workers’ struggles”, Invited speaker/paper, Workshop on Workers and Labor in a Globalised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues, Centro Studi di Relazioni Industriali, Universitá di Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, September 29-30, 2011. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, Invited speaker/paper, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Italy (co-sponsored by Dipartimento di Economia Societá e Politica, Universitá degli Studi di Urbino), September 26, 2011. Discussant for panel entitled “Global Labor Movements in the Era of Dispossession”, American Sociological Association Meeting, Las Vegas, August 20-23, 2011. “Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital: A Global View from the End of the ‘American Century’”, Invited international speaker, Labour and Society Research Group, Newcastle University and Northumbria University (UK), May 16, 2011. “Giovanni Arrighi’s Radical Rethinking of Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century” (with Felipe Filomeno and Kevan Harris), paper presented at The Eighth Annual Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts at Boston, April 13-14, 2011. [The 2011 theme was on Italian Social Theory and the call for papers invited “proposals addressing the span of modern Italian social theory, including thinkers such as… Giovanni Arrighi…”] Keynote speaker, “La nueva geografía económica: el papel de las economias emergentes” (The new economic geography and the role of emerging economies) at Foro de Las Ciudades: Europa y Los Paises Emergentes (Forum on Europe and Emerging Countries), Fuenlabrada, Madrid, March 24-26, 2011. “Strikes: A Global View”, Invited paper/speaker, International Conference on Strikes and Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century, Lisbon, March 16-20, 2011 (major international conference held at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and co-sponsored by the Institute for Contemporary History in Lisbon, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Dijon, the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam among others.) "Stones, Eggs and Heat: Reconstructing Giovanni Arrighi’s Approach to the Study of LongTerm, Large Scale Social Change", Invited paper/presentation for Interdisciplinary Workshop entitled “The Comparative Imperative” at New York University, February 18-20, 2011. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, Invited paper/presentation, Colloquium on Comparative Research, Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, February 9, 2011. Invited paper/presentation for opening session, “Understanding the Crisis Historically”, Conference on the Global Crisis: Rethinking Economy and Society, sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), University of Chicago, December 3-4, 2010. “The United States in Decline: Why Is It Happening and What Does It Mean?” paper presented at the Social Science History Association Meeting, Chicago, November 18-21, 2010.
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Invited international speaker to give inaugural lecture for opening of their new International Studies Program at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil, (Public lecture title: “The Reconfiguration of Global Capitalism”), November 10, 2010. “The Reconfiguration of Global Labor”, Invited paper, Faculty of Economics, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil, November 11, 2010. “Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital”, Invited Public Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center, New York October 19, 2010. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, Invited paper/seminar speaker, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 20, 2010. Keynote speaker, “A ilusão do desenvolvimento e a obra de Giovanni Arrighi: implicações para a América Latina” (The Developmentalist Illusion and the Work of Giovanni Arrighi: Implications for Latin America), IV Coloquio Brasileiro em Economia Politica dos Sistemas Mundo, Universidade Federale Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, August 30-31, 2010. Keynote Speaker, "Retrospective on Capitalist Crisis," Conference, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea from May 26-28, 2010. “Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital: A View From the End of the American Century”, Invited paper, Institute for Social Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Seoul, Korea, May 29, 2010. Keynote address, Plenary Session in Memory of Giovanni Arrighi, “An Arrighian Perspective on Land and Labor Rights in the World System”, 34th Annual Political Economy of the World System Conference, Florida Atlantic University, April 22-24, 2010. “The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Longue-Durée", Invited Panelist (Second of two sessions in honor of Giovanni Arrighi), Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 14, 2010. Session on Work of Giovanni Arrighi, Left Forum, Invited Panelist, Pace University, New York, March 19-21, 2010. Session on Labor and Nationalism/Transnationalism, Invited Panelist, Left Forum, Pace University, New York, March 19-21, 2010. Keynote Speaker, Conference: “1929-1939: From Crash to Catastrophe”, World Peace Forum, Vancouver, Canada, November 8, 2009. “Crisis of Capitalism, Crisis of Hegemony: An Arrighian Perspective on the Current Conjuncture”, invited paper at session “Commemorating the Life and Work of Giovanni Arrighi” (sponsored by Critical Sociology), Seventh International Conference on Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 5-8, 2009. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, invited paper presented at World Public Forum— Dialogue of Civilizations (panel sponsored by Social Science Research Council), Rhodes, 13
Greece, October 8-12, 2009. Panelist, Author Meets Critics Session, Beyond the Boycott by Gay Seidman, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 10, 2009. Regular Session Organizer, “New Directions in World Systems Analysis”, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 9, 2009. Panelist on Session entitled “From Rhodesia to Beijing: Reflections on the Scholarship of Giovanni Arrighi”, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 8, 2009. “Global Crises: Past and Present”, Invited Lecture, Princeton University, April 2, 2009.
Extra-Mural Professional Service (partial list): Editorial Boards: Contemporary Sociology, Editorial Board (2005-2008) Johns Hopkins University Press, Faculty Advisory Board (2002-2008) Labor History, Editorial Board (current) Journal of World Systems Research, Associate Editor (current) International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflicts (current) Memberships: American Sociological Association (Sections: Comparative-Historical, Political Economy of the World System, Labor and Labor Movements); International Studies Association; International Sociological Association; Social Science History Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Eastern Sociological Society. Service: American Sociological Association (partial list) : Political Economy of the World System Section: Chair-Elect, Chair, Past-Chair Political Economy of the World System Section (2001-2004); Elected Member, Council, PEWS Section (1997-2000); Chair, Dissertation Award Committee (1993, 1999, 2003), Chair, Distinguished Book Award Committee (2002); Regular Session Organizer (several years). Social Science History Association: Organizer, paper sessions for Annual Meeting (several years) Referee for American Journal of Sociology, National Science Foundation (Sociology), National Science Foundation (Law and Social Science), Oxford University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Harvard University Press, Labor Studies Journal, Labor History, Review of International Political Economy, Sociological Theory, Political Power & Social Theory, among others. Multiple tenure and promotion reviews for other universities
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Courses Taught at Johns Hopkins (selected): Graduate Level: 21st Century Capitalism (aka Capitalism in Crisis, Capitalism in Transition); Labor in the World System; Macro-comparative Research Methods; World Systems Analysis, Political Sociology; Theories of Society; Comparative Labor Movements Research Seminar; International Development, Urbanization and Social Movements; Dissertation Seminar Undergraduate Level: Social Theory; Issues in International Development; Introduction to Sociology; Rebellion and Revolution in the World System; Labor and Globalization; Global Social Change and Development Research Practicum (formerly Comparative Historical Research Practicum); Global Crises: Past and Present; Globalization and Social Protest; Economic Development in Comparative Perspective Dissertation Supervision (partial list): First Reader (Primary Advisor) for 22 Sociology Ph.D. dissertations (19 completed, 3 in progress); Second or third reader for an additional 20 Sociology PhD dissertations (16 completed, 4 in progress); Primary advisor for additional 3 pre-dissertation PhD students. PI on six successful NSF Dissertation Improvement Awards (for B. Eren, L. Zhang, N. Aschoff, B. Scully, K. Harris, S. Zhan) Current Undergraduate Advising: Design, Launch and Director of Undergraduate Program in Global Social Change and Development (leading to majors in both Sociology and international Studies). Launched in 2012. Very successful program with over 50 undergraduate majors. Training and coordinating large undergraduate research team (on average 15 undergraduates in any semester) working on National Science Foundation grant project, "Economic and Geopolitical Crises and Waves of Social Unrest", 1851-present, 2015-2017. Supervising 3 senior theses, one Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and one Dean's Undergraduate Research Award grant recipient in 2015-2016.
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