Program on Global Studies
(PoGS)

Program on Global Studies (PoGS) is an interdisciplinary research and education initiative at the University of California, Riverside. PoGS is co-Directed by Juliann Allison (Political Science) and Christopher Chase-Dunn (Sociology).

The Program on Global Studies is the UCR branch of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), a multi-campus research unit of the University of California, with head offices at the University of California, San Diego.

PoGS Advisory Council

Chair: Stephen Cullenberg (Economics)

Michael Allen (Conservation Biology); Lynda Bell (History); John Cioffi (Political Science) Carl Cranor (Philosophy); Norman Ellstrand (Botany); Christine Gailey (Women’s Studies); Anil Deolalikar (Economics); William Jury (Environmental Sciences); Bronwyn Leebaw (Political Science) ; Bai-Lian Li (Botany) Toby Miller (Sociology and Film Studies); Thomas Patterson (Anthropology); David Pion-Berlin (Political Science); Ellen Reese (Sociology); Ivan Strenski (Religious Studies); Richard Sutch, (Economics); Anne Sutherland (Anthropology); Marlene Zuk (Biology).

PoGS brings humanists together with biological, social and physical scientists at UCR for research and education on global issues. This year PoGS is co-organizing a speaker series and colloquium seminar on “Global Class Formation.”

PoGS supports graduate research projects by providing funding for Research Assistantships and student conference participation.

A list of the speakers we have hosted in the past is available at http://irows.ucr.edu/pogs/speakersarch.htm

• Undergraduate Global Studies Major: A UCR-wide committee led by Anthropology Professor Anne Sutherland proposed an interdisciplinary undergraduate major in Global Studies that will study global and regional processes from the point of view of the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. This proposal has been approved by the UCR Academic Senate and the gateway courses are being offered. Anthropology Professor Susan Ossman has joined the core faculty of the new Global Studies major.

· Forthcoming School of Public Policy : With Economist Anil Deolalikar and others, the PoGS co-directors are working on the establishment of a UCR School of Public Policy that will engage global policy issues. A new MA in public policy with an emphasis on global studies is in the works.

· Research Working Group on Transnational Social Movements. Sociology Professor Ellen Reese and PoGS co-director Chase-Dunn are the faculty sponsors of a research working group on transnational social movements. Surveys have been administered at the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the WSF07 in Nairobi, Kenya and the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta in June 2007.