ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Christopher Chase-Dunn is Professor of

Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is

the author of Transnational Corporations and

Underdevelopment (with Volker Bornschier,

Praeger, 1985) and Global Formation:

Structures of the World-Economy (Basil

Blackwell, 1989). He is currently working on

the problem of the transformation of modes of

production by comparing the modern global

political economy to earlier, smaller world-

systems.

Gary M. Feinman is an Associate Professor of

Anthropology at the University of

Wisconsin-Madison. A Mesoamerican

archaeologist, he has participated in field

work in the Valleys of Oaxaca and Ejutla since

1977. He is co-author of three books and has

written more than 30 articles on various

topics, including craft specialization,

demographic change, and regional analysis.

Andre Gunder Frank is Professor of Development

Economics and Social Sciences at the

University of Amsterdam. He has taught in

departments of anthropology, economics,

history, and sociology at Universities in

Europe, North and Latin America. His research

has centered primarily on Third World and

Latin American dependence (the "development of

underdevelopment"), history of the world

system, and the contemporary world economic

crisis. His work also ranges over

international political economy and relations,

marxism, organization theory and management,

peace research, socialism and social

movements. His 800 plus publications in 24

languages include 600 versions of articles,

chapters in over 100 readers/anthologies, and

over 100 different editions of his 30 books,

among them Capitalism and Underdevelopment in

Latin America, World Accumulation 1492-1789,

Crisis In the World Economy, and The European

Challenge.

Barry K. Gills did his postgraduate work at

the London School of Economics and Oxford. He

teaches in the Department of Politics at the

University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Together

with Andre Gunder Frank, he is working on a

"World System History" which places world

accumulation at the center of the analysis and

encompasses five thousand years of world

system development. Other research interests

are in the International Political Economy of

East Asia, and the political economy of Korea

in particular. He is a Fellow of the

Transnational Institute, Amsterdam.

Thomas D. Hall is the Lester M. Jones

Professor of Sociology at DePauw University.

He received his Ph.D. at the University of

Washington in 1981. His book on the American

Southwest, Social Change in the Southwest,

1350-1880 (Published by University Press of

Kansas in its historical sociology series) has

been widely acclaimed. He is currently

working on the incorporation of ethnic

minorities into the world-system in the

nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and

comparing those processes with processes in

precapitalist world-systems.

Linda M. Nicholas is an Honorary Fellow in the

Department of Anthropology at the University

of Wisconsin-Madison. She has worked as an

archaeologist in Oaxaca since 1980. In her

research she has taken a regional perspective

to the analysis of indigenous systems of land

use in both Mexico's Southern Highlands and

the southwestern United States.

Peter Peregrine received his Ph.D. in

Anthropology from Purdue University in 1990,

and is now Assistant Professor of Anthropology

at Juniata College. His research is focused

on the evolution of complex societies, with

particular emphasis on the rise of

Mississippian chiefdoms in the American

midcontinent. In future research efforts Dr.

Peregrine hopes to investigate the utility of

world-systems theory in developing a unified

theory of cultural evolution in eastern North

America.

Stephen K. Sanderson is Professor of Sociology

at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His

main research interests are in the areas of

social theory, sociocultural evolution, and

comparative macrosociology. He is the author

of Macrosociology:An Introduction to Human

Societies (Harper & Row, 1988; 2nd edition

1991) and Social Evolutionism: A Critical

History (Basil Blackwell, 1990). He is

currently working on a book that will develop

and empirically demonstrate a formal theory of

long-term sociocultural evolution.

Jane Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at

the City University of New York's Graduate

Center. She has conducted anthropological

field research in Sicily and is the co-author,

with Peter Schneider, of a 1976 book, Culture

and Political Economy in Western Sicily. A

second book, covering the demographic

transition in Sicily, is in progress. Other

publications relate to a secondary interest --

the comparative history of cloth, clothing,

and textile manufacture. An artical on the

"Anthropology of Cloth" for the 1987 Annual

Review of Anthropology is one example.

David Wilkinson is Professor of Political

Science at the University of California-Los

Angeles. He lives in the semiperiphery of Los

Angeles but commutes frequently to the core,

where he works in the semiperiphery of a

discipline whose core (he thinks) is very

slowly moving his way.