Workshop Participants
v. 02-09-04
1.
Appelbaum,
Richard:
Sociology, UCSB: Research Interests: globalization of the apparel
industry, commodity chains, global industrial relations. rich@isber.ucsb.edu
2.
Arrighi,
Giovanni: Professor of
Sociology and Director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power
and History, Johns Hopkins University. Research interests: comparative
and historical sociology, world-systems analysis and economic sociology. arrighi@jhu.edu
3.
Bair,
Jennifer:
Sociology, Yale. Research Interests: Commodity chains, trade agreements.
jennifer.bair@yale.edu
4. Bonacich, Edna: Sociology, UCR: Research Interests:
Globalization of the apparel and transportation sectors, labor relations. edna.bonacich@ucr.edu
5.
Brunn, Stanley Geography, University of
Kentucky, (859) 257-6947 Research Interests: Political, social, and
urban geography, the human geographies of the 21st century, and the
geographies of knowledge. brunn@pop.uky.edu http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/dept/brunn.htm
6.
Carroll,
William: Sociology, University of
Victoria (BC). Research
Interests: global elite networks, policy networks. wcarroll@uvic.ca
7.
Chase-Dunn,
Christopher: Sociology, UCR;
founder and director of the Institute for Research on World Systems
(IROWS). Research interests: cities and settlement systems;
comparing the modern world-system with earlier regional systems, founder and
co-editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems
Research chriscd@mail.ucr.edu http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/ccdhmpg.htm
8.
Couclelis, Helen: Geography, UCSB: Research
Interests: Urban and regional modeling and planning, spatial
cognition, geographic information science, geography of the information
society. cook@geog.ucsb.edu
9.
Goodchild,
Michael: Geography,
University of California, Santa Barbara and Director of the Center for the Spatially Integrated
Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Research
Interests: Urban and economic geography, geographic information systems,
and spatial analysis. good@geog.ucsb.edu
10. Hanneman, Robert: Sociology, UCR. Research Interests:
Network analysis of economic sectors, mathematical modeling the growth and
decline of states. robert.hanneman@ucr.edu
11. Hugill, Peter: George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M. Research interests: historical relationship between people and their environment as mediated through technology; role of transportation systems and telecommunications in the World-System; geopolitical models; role played by agricultural commodities in defining world trade flows, industrial development, and consumer markets; Anglo-America and its relationships to Europe; transition from British to American hegemony in the World-System. pjhugill@tamu.edu
12. Janelle, Don: Geography, UC-Santa Barbara, Research Interests: space-adjusting technologies: integrating information, communications, and transportation. janelle@geog.ucsb.edu
13. Kentor, Jeffrey: Sociology,
University of Utah. Research Interests: transnational corporations,
interlocking directorates, global networks, cross-national comparative analysis.
jeffery.kentor@csbs.utah.edu
14. Malecki, Edward Geography, Ohio State University (614) 688-5688 Research Interests: Urban, rural and regional economic development, technological change, regional policy, research and development, technology policy, telecommunications, corporate location and behavior. malecki.4@osu.edu
http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/
15. Miller, Harvey J. Geography, University of Utah (801) 585-3972 Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems for Transportation (GIS-T), Geographic Information Science (GISci), time geography and activity theory, spatial analysis and geocomputation. harvey.miller@geog.utah.edu http://www.geog.utah.edu/~hmiller/
16. Reifer, Thomas E: Sociology and IROWS, UCR. Research interests: hegemony, globalization, and anti-systemic movements; comparative and world-historical sociology; social change, stratification, and inequality; sociology of development and globalization; international political economy. reifert@citrus.ucr.edu
17. Sassen, Saskia: Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology,
University of Chicago. Research interests: recent five-year
project on governance and accountability in a global economy (next book: Denationalization
: Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age, Princeton University Press,
2003). Major figure in the study of global cities. Co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project,
a Member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Data Sets, a Member
of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Chair of the newly formed Information
Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the
SSRC.
18. Smith, David: Sociology, UCI. Immediate past editor of Social
Problems. Research interests: international trade and
exchange in the world-economy (and it's implications for economic growth and
development; global industrialization and commodity chains, especially in the
Pacific Rim region, and particularly apparel and garment manufacturing; the
dynamics of technological dependence and technology transfer in East Asia;
Third World cities and development; global urbanization and world cities.
Network analysis of global trading patterns, focusing on stratification in the
world system; the analysis of air traffic flows as indicators of urban
hierarchies.
19. Silver, Beverly J.:
Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.
Research interests: problems of development, labor and social
conflict, using comparative and world-historical methods of analysis. Her work
recasts a variety of social issues in a broad spatial and temporal framework in
order to identify patterns of recurrence, evolution and "true novelty"
in contemporary processes of globalization. silver@jhu.edu
20. Sweeney, Stuart Geography, UCSB,
CSISS Executive Committee. Research Interests: spatial statistics, urban
geography http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~sweeney/NSF_bio.pdf sweeney@geog.ucsb.edu
21. VanderVelde, Lea, Josephine
Witte Professor of Law and Global Scholar,
University of Iowa College of Law
Discipline: Law. Specialty: Legal change.
Scholarship has been in the area of Property Law, Labor and Employment Law and Constitutional Law. Interested in applying the techniques that were being explored
at the conference to the domestic
and international legal regulation of global migration. l-vandervelde@uiowa.edu
22. Weeks, John R. Geography, CSU-San Diego. Research
Interests: Demography, health, environment, remote sensing of urban
regions. john.weeks@sdsu.edu
23. White, Douglas R. Social Science, University of California,
Irvine. Research Interests: Network Analysis, World Trade structures. drwhite@uci.edu
24. Wilkinson, David: Political Science, UCLA. Research Interests: chronographing political military interactions, power configurations and prestige good trade networks over the past 5000 years. wilkinson@polisci.ucla.edu
25. Yu, Zhiqian : Software Engineer, ESRI, Redlands. Research Interests: GIS and Remote Sensing techniques for studying land use and climate change. zhiqianyu@msn.com
26. Zook, Matthew: Geography, University of Kentucky. Research Interests: Technological change and urban and regional development, geography of the Internet industry, the role of venture capital in regional development and IT training programs for disadvantaged adults. zook@uky.edu