ANNUAL REPORT

Center Director: Christopher Chase-Dunn	Title: Director
Phone: (951) 827 - 2062	Department: Sociology
Email: chriscd@ucr.edu	College: CHASS
Period of Review: 2006-2007
Name of Center: Institute for Research on World-Systems

Brief history of IROWS:

The Institute for Research on World-Systems was established in 2000 in connection with the recruitment of Christopher Chase-Dunn from Johns Hopkins University. Chase-Dunn negotiated a five-year support package with then Executive Vice Chancellor David Warren. The financial support, which came primarily from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) budget, was based on a written development plan in which IROWS agreed to pursue extramural support for interdisciplinary research while organizing a colloquium seminar, a speaker series, occasional conferences and publishing an academic journal.

Though there were some adjustments negotiated with then Dean of CHASS Patricia O’Brien, the UCR commitment was substantially honored. An IROWS ORU proposal was approved by the UCR Academic Senate Committee on Research in November of 2001. That original proposal was never sent forward from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor. IROWS Director Chase-Dunn is not now receiving financial support for supervising IROWS.

IROWS has submitted extramural funding proposals requesting funding for more than $5 million per year since 2001. Two proposals to the NSF Sociology Program have been funded, and a 3-year project funded by the NSF Human Social Dynamics program for $450,000 began in October of 2005.

The Administrative Assistant, Nelda Thomas, serves as the receptionist and answers the phones for the Presley Center and IROWS. Nelda also organizes conferences, speaker presentations, works on publications and assists with student and classroom support.

IROWS has sponsored two major conferences. The first one, in 2002, was on the Political Economy of World-Systems and brought scholars and scientists from all over the world to UCR to present research that has subsequently resulted in the publication of three books. The second conference, on Globalization and Geographical Information Systems was held in 2004. This conference was co-funded by the UC-Santa Barbara Center for Spatial Integration of the Social Sciences, the UCR Office of Research, and the UCR Office of Chancellor. IROWS has hosted several visiting postdoctoral fellows who have participated in our research projects. Most recently Mark Herkenrath, of the University of Zurich, and Pablo Iglesias Turrion, of the Universidad Complutense, Madrid have been in residence.

Research projects carried on at IROWS have involved both undergraduate and graduate students in the study of global social change and socio-cultural evolution. Andrew Jorgenson, an early and amazingly productive graduate student, received his Ph.D. in Sociology in 2004 took a tenure-track job at Washington State University and has now moved to North Carolina State University where he and Professor Edward Kick are about to become the new co-editors of the Journal of World-Systems Research.. Twenty other graduate students and fifteen undergraduates have participated in IROWS research projects since 2000.

The IROWS web site contains 37 working papers and hosts the home pages of five research projects. IROWS director Chase-Dunn helped to organize a specialization in Political Economy and Global Social Change for the Sociology Graduate Program and he is currently the Chair of the qualifying exam committee for this specialization. Chase-Dunn teaches the graduate core course in this specialization.

Irows web site: https://irows.ucr.edu/

Irows reports for 2002-2006 at: https://irows.ucr.edu/reports/irowsreportstoc.htm

MAIN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO MISSION, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES:

MISSION, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF IROWS: IROWS does research on globalization, global social change and the historical evolution of intersocietal systems. IROWS initiates and sponsors research activities, public events, university-wide academic projects, a web site (www.irows.ucr.edu), and electronic publications for the wider academic, regional and world-wide public interested in research on globalization and global policy issues.

The main purpose of IROWS is to conduct long term, large-scale interdisciplinary research to achieve a better understanding of:

· Global Social Change,

· The Historical Evolution of Cities and Polities,

· Global and Regional Political Ecology,

· Biotechnology and Global Political Economy,

· Waves and Contours of Global Elite Integration Since 1840,

· The Rise, Fall and Upward Sweeps of Polity Formation and the Emergence of a Global State, and

· Transnational Social Movements and Global Civil Society.

IROWS Financial Situation: The original funding from UCR for IROWS is now completely depleted. Funding for speakers comes from the Institute on Global Cooperation and Conflict (IGCC) at UC-San Diego (Chase-Dunn is the co-Director of the UCR branch of IGCC, the Program on Global Studies) and NSF grant support is used to fund graduate and undergraduate research assistants. Staff assistance (Nelda Thomas) is being funded at 25% by the Dean of CHASS for 2007/8.

IROWS CONTRIBUTIONS TO UCR’S GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PROGRAMS:

Undergraduate:

The Global Studies Major; Chase-Dunn taught Global Studies 2, one of two gateway courses for the new major.
Involvement of undergraduates in research projects.
Center Director Chase-Dunn is the Faculty Advisor for UCR-CALPIRG and for the UCR Model UN Project (MUN)

Graduate:

The Political Economy and Global Social Change specialization in the Sociology Ph.D. Program.
Participation of graduate students in three on-going research projects, professional presentations and publications.

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:

Publication of the internationally renowned Journal of World-Systems Research; (www.jwsr.ucr.edu). In November of 2007 the editorship of JWSR will be taken over by Andrew Jorgensen and Edward Kick at North Carolina State University.

Delivery of lectures on globalization and global social change to:

· UCR-affiliated community organizations such as the Citizen’s University Committee, the Life Society, the Environmental Sciences Research Institute (ESRI) in Redlands, the UCR Palm Desert campus and UCR Affiliates; and Regional, national and international academic audiences at meetings of the California Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, the American Sociological Association, the International Studies Association and the International Sociological Association, and the Global Studies Association. In March of 2007 IROWS Director Chase-Dunn gave a keynote address ath the Global Studies Association conference at UC-Irvine.

· Organization of academic conferences, conference sessions and workshops at UCR and in connection with several regional, national and international professional organizations. In July of 2006 IROWS Director Chase-Dunn helped to organized 16 sessions that were presented as the RC02 program at the World Congress of Sociology in Durban, South Africa.

IROWS Director Chase-Dunn is the Faculty Advisor to the UCR Model United Nations program and the UCR branch of CALPIRG.
Participation in the Mellon-sponsored symposium on Global Networks in 2006-2007 and Global Class Formation in 2007-2008..

A2. RESEARCH NARRATIVE:

In 2006-2007 three main research projects at IROWS were:

1. An NSF-sponsored research on global elite integration in the nineteenth century. We submitted a final report to NSF and are working on a book manuscript tentatively titled The Global Nineteenth Century.

2. IROWS obtained NSF-HSD funding for a 3-year project on the rise and fall of states and empires over the past 4000 years and the future emergence of a global state. This is a continuation of an on-going project (since 2000) that quantitatively studies the growth of cities and states since the Bronze Age. The co-PIs on the NSF-HSD project are Chase-Dunn, E.N. Anderson, emeritus professor of Anthropology at UCR and Peter Turchin, a population ecologist at the University of Connecticut.

3. IROWS has applied for funding to study the contours of relations among transnational social movements participating in the World Social Forums with co-PI Ellen Reese in Sociology. Six graduate students attended the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya where they administered a survey research instrument to more than 600 participants. Six graduate students and two undergraduates attended the June 2007 meeting of the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta to administer another survey.

Additional projects under development focus upon:

· the trajectory of biotechnology as a new lead industry in the global political economy (NSF proposal submitted in August 2007),

· a global public opinion survey on knowledge about global governance and opinions about global democracy (NSF-Sociology proposal to be submitted in January of 2008).

· the development of interactive three-dimensional web-based metaverse projects for transnational social movements (proposal to Social Science Research Council is in the works).

Detail information on past and current IROWS research projects are listed on the IROWS web site under “Projects.”

A3. ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE:

IROWS has a Governing Board composed of UCR faculty members with overlapping research and academic interests that provides oversight and confers about new initiatives. The current Governing Board chair is Professor Robert Hanneman in the Sociology Department. Professor Edna Bonacich (now retired) was the Board Chair from 2000 to 2006. The external Advisory Board is composed of academic experts in the U.S. and abroad who serve as consultants on research projects, help recruit students, organize academic conferences and workshops. IROWS receives immense grants management and application support from Robin Whittington in the Sociology Department. Kenneth Barr served as the IROWS Associate Director until June 30, 2006. He organized two speaker series, directed research projects and served as the Managing Editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research. The IROWS Administrative Assistant, Nelda Thomas, is shared with the Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies. As of July 1, 2006 the Presley Center has covered 75% of Mrs. Thomas’s salary and benefits. The rest has been contributed by the office of the CHASS Dean.

B.1: PARTICIPATING PERSONNEL

Group the personnel within each section by the Center’s major research programs, if possible/appropriate.

For Faculty: Please list those UCR faculty who are members of the Academic Senate and who actively participated in center activities, e.g., a PI on a sponsored project administered by the center, member of center’s advisory committee, author on a center publication, etc.

UCR FACULTY (Senate Members) Type of Participation (check all that apply)
Name	Payroll Title	Affiliation	PI/Co-PI on Center Sponsored Award	Center Advisory Committee Member	Speaker at Center Event	Author on Center Publication	Other	(Description of Other)

Chris Chase-Dunn	Professor	Sociology						IROWS Director
Edna Bonacich	Professor	Sociology						Chair, Advisory Committee (2000-2006)
Robert Hanneman	Professor	Sociology						Current Chair of Advisory Committee
Ellen Reese	Associate Professor	Sociology
E. N. Anderson	Professor Emeritus	Anthropology
Jonathan Turner	Professor	Sociology
Carl Cranor	Professor	Philosophy
Christine Gailey	Professor	Womens’ Studies
Randolph Head	Associate Professor	History
Ray Kea	Professor	History
Michael Kearney	Professor	Anthropology
Bai-Lian Li	Professor	Botany and Plant Sciences
Thomas Patterson	Professor	Anthropology
Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez	Professor	Environmental Sciences
Thomas Scanlon	Professor	Comparative Literature
Richard Sutch	Professor	Economics
Juliann Allison	Associate Professor	Political Science
Anne Sutherland	Professor	Anthropology
Anil Deolalikar	Professor	Economics

Name	Payroll Title	Affiliation	PI/Co PI on Center Sponsored Award	Center Advisory Committee Member	Speaker at Center Event	Author on Center Publication	Other	(Description of Other)
Stephen Sanderson	Visiting Professor	Sociology						Visiting scholar
Pablo Iglesias-Turrion	Post-doctoral fellow	IROWS
Mark Herkenrath	Post-doctoral fellow	IROWS
Salvatore Babones	Research Fellow
Kenneth Barr	Visiting Scholar	IROWS
Thomas Reifer	Research Fellow	IROWS	x			x
John Gulick	Research Fellow	IROWS			x
Alexis Alvarez	Visiting Scholar	IROWS

OTHER ACADEMICS Type of Participation (check all that apply)

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT STAFF

For other administrative and support staff, please include Director along with other Center administrative support staff.

Name	Payroll Title	FTE	Source(s) of Funding

Chris Chase-Dunn	Director	1.00	Campus Allocation
Nelda Thomas	Administrative Assistant	1.00	Presley Center and CHASS Dean

GRADUATE STUDENTS

For Graduate Students, please indicate degree being pursued, program/department/institutional affiliation, and faculty mentor.

Name	Degree	Year entered Program	Program/Department/Institution	Faculty Mentor
Kirk Lawrence	Ph.D.	2005	Sociology	Chase-Dunn
Rebecca Giem	Ph.D.	2002	Sociology	Chase-Dunn
Shoon Lio	Ph.D.	2000	Sociology
Richard Niemeyer	Ph.D.	2004	Sociology	Chase-Dunn
Chris Schmitt	Ph.D.	2000	Sociology
Anders Carlson	Ph.D.	2004	Sociology	Chase-Dunn
Christine Petit	Ph.D.	2003	Sociology	Reese
Linda Kim	Ph.D.	2003	Sociology	Reese
Erika Gutierrez	Ph.D.	2003	Sociology	Reese
Benjamin Fierro	Ph.D.	2005	Anthropology	Anderson
Hiroko Inoue	Ph.D.	2000	Sociology	Hanneman
Jake Wilson	Ph.D.	2004	Sociology	Bonacich
Toi Carter	Ph.D.	2005	Sociology	Reese
Roy Kwon	Ph.D.	2005	Sociology
Ashley Koda	Ph.D	2005	Sociology	Aguirre
Gary Coyne	Ph.D	2006	Sociology
Matt Kaneshiro	PhD	2006	Sociology

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

For Undergraduate Students, please indicate class level, major/department/institutional affiliation, and faculty mentor.

Name	Degree	Year entered Program	Program/Department/Institution	Faculty Mentor

Oswin Chan	junior	2005	Sociology	Chase-Dunn
Chris Record	junior	2005	History
Earth Shah	junor	2005	business

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

IROWS Advisory Board (external)

B.2: CENTER PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones (eds.) 2006 Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press

Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Donatella della Porta, Peter Jay Smith 2007 Global Democracy and the World Social Forums. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Press.

Journal articles:

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2007 “Sociocultural evolution and the future of world society” World Futures 65: 408-424.

Book Chapters:

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Daniel Pasciuti, Alexis Alvarez and Thomas D. Hall. 2006 “Waves of Globalization and Semiperipheral Development in the Ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian World-Systems” Pp. 114-138 in Barry Gills and William R. Thompson (eds.),  Globalization and Global History London: Routledge.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez and Daniel Pasciuti, 2006 “World-systems in the biogeosphere: three thousand years of urbanization, empire formation and climate change.” In Paul Ciccantell, Gay Seidman and David A. Smith (eds.) Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy. JAI/Elsevier.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 2006 “Ecological degradation and the evolution of world-systems” Pp. 231-252 in Andrew Jorgenson and Edward Kick (eds.) Globalization and the Environment.  Leiden: Brill.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall and Peter Turchin 2007 “World-systems in the biogeosphere: urbanization, state formation and climate change since the Iron Age” Pp. 132-149 in Alf Hornborg and Carole Crumley (eds.) The World System and the Earth System. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Ellen Reese,  “Global party formation in world historical perspective” 2006  Pp. 82-120 in Katrina Sehm-Patomaki and Marko Ulvila (eds.) Democratic Politics Globally, Tampere, Finland: NIGD.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones 2006 “Introduction” Pp. 1-7 in Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones (eds.) Global Social Change. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Thomas D. Hall and Christopher Chase-Dunn 2006 “Global social change in the long run” Pp. 33-58 in Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones (eds.) Global Social Change. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2006 “Globalization: a world-systems perspective” Pp. 79-108 in Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones (eds.) Global Social Change. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson 2007 “Trajectories of trade and investment globalization” Pp. 165-185 in Ino Rossi (ed.) Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. New York: Springer

B.3: DISTINGUISHED AWARDS RECEIVED OR HELD BY CENTER PARTICIPANTS

Recipient Name	Name of Award	Year Award Received
Chris Chase-Dunn	American Academy of Arts and Sciences	2001
Chris Chase-Dunn	Elected President of the Economy and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association	2002

B.4: EVENTS SPONSORED BY CENTER

Speaker Series:

October 12, Ian Masters, KPFK “Freeing markets and marketing freedom in the anti-American century” (about 80 attendees)

October 13, Christopher McNally, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, “Capitalism in the Dragon’s Lair: China’s Emergent Political Economy” (about 15 attendees)

November 13 Alison Brysk, UC-Irvine “National Insecurity, Human Rights and Counter Terror” (about 25 attendees)

December 7, Shoon Lio, Chris Schmitt, and Kirk Lawrence, UCR Sociology “Global Networks in the 19^th Century: waves of globalization, integration and conflict” (about 30 attendees)

February 9, Jeffrey Kentor, University of Utah, “The Changing Contours of Global Networks of Large Firms” (21 attendees)

February 12, Paul Ciccantell, Western Michigan University, “Raw materials, transport and long-term change in the world economy” (about 15 attendees)

March 5, Andrew Jorgenson, Washington State University “Foreign investment and the environment: a global perspective” (6 attendees)

March 7, Matthew Muhutga , UC- Irvine “ Upgrading the Positional Power of Nations? Dominance, Subordination and Economic Growth in the World Economy, 1965-2000” (11 attendees)

March 12 Ho Fung Hung, Indiana University. "Rise of China and the Global Overaccumulation Crisis" (about 15 attendees)

April 9, David Meyer, UC-Irvine “War, Peace and American Political Development” (about 10 attendees)
April 13 William Carroll , University of Victoria, “Tracking the transnational capitalist class: the view from on high” (about 20 attendees)

April 17, Thomas Ponniah, Harvard University, “World Social Forum Visions for Global Justice” (about 40 attendees)
March 16 John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon “The Political Economy of Growth After 50 Years: Paul Baran’s Analysis of Global Capitalism a Half-Century Later” (about 50 attendees)
June 5, Cedric Beidatsch , Western Australian University “New paradigms in Marxist history writing” (about 10 attendees)

B.5: SPACE UTILIZED BY CENTER

IROWS shares resources with the Alpha Center and the Presley Center that are also located in College Building South on College Place. The Map Room in College Building South is used by all three organizations for seminars, meetings and lectures of many of our invited speakers. The Computer Lab, shared with the Presley Center, is used by graduate and undergraduate students working on research projects.

Space Utilized	Square Feet (Approx)
Meeting Space	449
Office and Support	325
Research	889
total	1663

B.6: SPONSORED FUNDING PROPOSALS AND AWARDS

2004-2006 Co-Principal Investigator, "The Social Foundations of Global Conflict and Cooperation: Waves of Globalization and Global Elite Integration" National Science Foundation, Sociology Program (Co-PI with Thomas E. Reifer) $152,312

· 2005-2008 Co-Principal Investigator, “Global state formation: modeling the rise, fall and upward sweeps of large polities in world history and the global future” National Science Foundation, Human Social Dynamics Program (Co-PI with E.N. Anderson and Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut) $450,000. More information about the project is available at https://irows.ucr.edu/research/citemp/citemp.html

· 2006-2007 Co-Principal Investigator (with Ellen Reese), Labor and Economics Research Fund, project on “The role of labor in the social forum process” ($40,000)

Proposals Pending
Proposal Title	PI	Co-PIs	Funding Agency	Period of Funding	Total Award Requested	Status
Transnational social movements		Ellen Reese and Chris Chase-Dunn	NSF-Sociology	2006-2008	150,000	Not funded
Developing Parameters to Model the Rise of the BioEconomy	Y		NSF-Social Studies of Science, Engineering and Technology	1/2008-6/2011	$416,170	Pending

B.7: NON-SPONSORED RESOURCES

Sources of Funding		Amount
Funding Provided by UCR Institutional Sources	Dean of CHASS for salary of Nelda Thomas	$6750
Funding Provided by UC System Sources
Funding from Endowments or Gifts
Funding from Other Sources (Please List) IGCC Block Grant for Program on Global Studies		$15,000
UCR Mellon Workshop on Global Class Formation		$5000

Affiliation

Name

Payroll Title

Affiliation

Other

Stephen Sanderson

OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT STAFF

FTE

Source(s) of Funding

Chris Chase-Dunn

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Program/Department/Institution

Faculty Mentor

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Program/Department/Institution

Faculty Mentor

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Year Award Received

February 12, Paul Ciccantell, Western Michigan University, “Raw materials, transport and long-term change in the world economy” (about 15 attendees)