Christopher Chase-Dunn


Dept. of Sociology University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA. 92521-0419 USA
            (951)827-2062   E-mail: chriscd@ucr.edu  http://www.irows.ucr.edu/cd/ccdvitae.htm

·                     Date of Birth: January 10, 1944

·                     Place of Birth: Corvallis, Oregon

·                     Marital Status: Married

·                     1964 Shasta College, Redding, CA., Journalism

·                     1966 University of California, Berkeley, Psychology, B.A.

·                     1968 Stanford University, Sociology, MA

·                     1975 Stanford University, Sociology, PhD. Dissertation:

“International Economic Dependence in the World-System”

Bio: Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems  (https://irows.ucr.edu/)at the University of California-Riverside. He received his Ph.D in Sociology from Stanford University in 1975. Chase-Dunn has done crossnational quantitative studies on the effects of dependence on foreign investment, and he studies cities and settlement systems. His recent research focuses on intersocietal systems, including both the modern global political economy and earlier regional world-systems. One project examines the causes of polity expansion and settlement growth (and decline) in several regional world-systems as well as the contemporary process of global state formation. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Chase-Dunn is the founder and former editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research.  and the Series Editor of a book series published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.   In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2002 he was elected President of the Research Committee on Economy and Society (RC02) of the International Sociological Association.

Previous Theorizing and Research: crossnational comparative studies of the development of national societies

E,g, Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1975. "The effects of international economic dependence and inequality: a cross-national study," American Sociological Review 40:720-738. Reprinted in John W. Meyer and Michael T. Hannan (eds.) National Development and the World System, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.

Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn. Transnational Corporations and Underdevelopment. New York: Praeger, 1985.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. Global Formation: Structures of The World-Economy. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. American Sociology Association PEWS Distinguished Publication Award, 1992. Revised Second edition published in 1998 by Rowman and Littlefield.

Current Theorizing and Research:  sociocultural evolution

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall. Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems Boulder, CO.: Westview. 1997.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann. The Wintu and Their Neighbors: A Small World-System in Northern California, University of Arizona Press,1998.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Lerro,  Forthcoming Social Change: World-Systems and Globalization. Pearson.

Chase-Dunn, Chris, Roy Kwon, Kirk Lawrence and Hiroko Inoue 2011 “Last of the hegemons: U.S. decline and global governance” International Review of Modern Sociology 37,1: 1-29 (Spring).

 

C. Wright Mills and his BMW

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Christine Petit, Richard Niemeyer, Robert A. Hanneman and Ellen Reese 2007 “The contours of solidarity and division among global movements” International Journal of Peace Studies 12,2: 1-15 (Autumn/Winter)

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Kirk S. Lawrence 2011 “The next three futures, Part One: Looming crises of global inequality, ecological degradation and a failed system of global governance” Global Society, 25:2:137-153 (April).
 Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Kirk S. Lawrence 2011 “The next three futures, Part Two: Possbilities of Another Round of U.S. Hegemony, Global Collapse or Global Democracy” Global Society, 25:3:269-285 (July).
Ongoing research projects at UCR:
Settlements and Polities Research Working Group: studies upsweeps and collapses of city and empire sizes since the Bronze Age. Project Web site:

https://irows.ucr.edu/research/citemp/citemp.html

Transnational Social Movements Research Working Group: studies global ciivl society, the social forum processes amd the world revolution of 20xx. Project web site at: http://www.irows.ucr.edu/research/tsmstudy.htm

 

The Sociology Graduate Specialization on Political Economy and Global Social Change (PEGSC)  Professor Mahutga is chair of the Committee.

The Sociology Graduate Specialization on Evolutionary Sociology. I am the Chair of the committee.                                                

What Morris T. (Buzz) Zelditch (Stanford University Sociology Graduate Program) said in 1966 when I told him I wanted to be a teacher:

“No you don’t.”