Marilyn Grell-Brisk
6943 Sandtrack Road
Riverside, CA 92506 USA
<marilyn.grell-brisk@unine.ch>
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Africa-China relations; Development (policies and theories, small island development, climate change, citizenship); Structural and Global Inequality (stratification of the world-economy, race and power, structural inequality); Global Governance; Class Analysis (class formation, precarity); Transnationalization; Community Health (air quality and the Inland Empire)
Languages: English, French, Antillean Creole
ACADEMIA
October 2017 to present
research associate, Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California, Riverside
(Grant: Égalité des Chances – October 2017 to May 2018)
January 2017 to October 2017
research collaborator/Doctoral Assistant, Institute of Sociology, Université de Neuchâtel
Spring 2015
visiting graduate student, Sociology Dept./Arrighi Center, Johns Hopkins University
EDUCATION
November 2013 to May 2018
PhD, sociology, Magna Cum Laude, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Thesis: Global Economic Stratification and the Evolving Role of China in the Developing World
Advisor: Prof. Christian Suter
August 2009
MA, political science, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Thesis: Equality, Liberty, and Race: Tocqueville’s Challenge
Advisor: Prof. Biancamaria Fontana
May 2001
Bachelor of Arts, Government, Claremont McKenna College, CA USA
Thesis: The Welfare Reform Bill of 1996: Did it work?
Advisor: Prof. Ward Elliot
June 1999
Associate in Arts, General Science, Santa Monica College
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2019. Arrested Development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World-Economy 1965-2015.
Journal of Contemporary African Studies. DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2019.1585525
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2018. Eluding National Boundaries: A case study of commodified citizenship and the transnational capitalist class. Societies 8 (35).
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2017. China and Global Economic Stratification in an Interdependent World. Palgrave Communications, 3.
https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201787
Book Chapters
Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Marilyn Grell-Brisk. Forthcoming. Oxford Bibliography in International Relations: World-System Theory.
In Oxford Bibliography in International Relations. e.d. Patrick James. New York: Oxford University Press. (Peer Reviewed)
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2019. Forthcoming. Stratification in the World-Economy: The Semiperiphery and Periphery.
In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. 2nd Edition. e.d. Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope. London: Palgrave McMillan
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2019. Forthcoming. Mind the Gap! Clustered Obstacles to Mobility in Core/Periphery Hierarchy.
In Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. 2nd Edition. e.d. Ino Rossi. New York: Springer
Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Marilyn Grell-Brisk. 2016. Uneven and Combined Development in the Sociocultural Evolution of World-Systems.
In Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée, e.d. Alexander Anievas and Kamran Matin. London: Rowman & Littlefield
Book Review
Grell-Brisk, Marilyn. 2019. Review of Global Inequalities in World-System Perspective, edited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, and Hans-Heinrich Nolte.
Journal of World-Systems Research 25 (1).
Public Sociology
The SDGs and Hierarchy in the World-Economy available at Fridays with MUNPlanet.
Working Papers and Articles in Progress
Small Island Developing States and Climate Change: The Case of Dominica. (Accepted to the American Sociological Association 114th Annual Meeting, August 2019).
Racism and the Evolution of Distant Othering (In Progress with Christopher Chase-Dunn and Eugene N. Anderson).
Beyond the Long Twentieth Century: China in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Changing Dynamics of the World-System. IROWS Working Paper #106.
http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows106/irows106.htm
Invited Talks/Invited Lectures
Creolization of Religions in the Diaspora. Invited Lecture (Global Studies), University of California, Riverside, March 2019.
African Religions in Haiti and the Diaspora. Invited Lecture (Global Studies), University of California, Riverside, March 2018.
La Stagnation du Développement Économique: Une analyse comparative de l’Afrique Subsaharienne dans la système-monde 1965-2015. Invited Lecture
(Graduate Seminar on Comparative Analysis in Sociology), Université de Neuchâtel. May 2017.
The Evolving China-Africa Relationship: Eastern Promises, Western Fears. Invited Session at 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Seattle, WA. August 2016.
Plus ça change plus c’est pareil? China in Sub-Saharan Africa. UC Riverside Sociology Department Colloquium Series. November 2015
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Presentations
Racism and the Evolution of Distant Othering (with Christopher Chase-Dunn and Eugene N. Anderson). Special Session. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.
Eluding National Boundaries: Commodified Citizenship and the Transnational Capitalist Class. Regular Session. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.
Global Governance and State Formation. Regular Session. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia, PA. August 2018.
Arrested Development? Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World Economy: 1965 to 2015. Roundtable paper. 112th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Montréal, Québec, Canada. August 2017.
The Evolving China-Africa Relationship: Eastern Promises, Western Fears. Invited Session. 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.
China and Global Economic Stratification in an Interdependent World. Regular Session. 111th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.
Movements in the Periphery/Semi-periphery: An Exploration of China’s Influence on Stratification in the World Economy. Roundtable paper. 111th Annual Meeting of the
American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA. August 2016.
China in the Global South: Something New or Borrowed? Regular Session. 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL. August 2015.
Other Conference Presentations
Grappling with the concept of nationalism from a sociological/world-systems perspective. Paper. 60th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Toronto. March 2018.
Global Systemic Crisis and Semiperipheral Countries. Paper. FLACSO-ISA Joint International Conference – Power Reconfigurations: Regional and Global Responses in
an Age of Uncertainty. Quito, Ecuador. July 2018.
Round Table Panelist: Is ‘Environmentalism’ Failing The Global South? Assessing the Rise of Buen-Vivir Environmentalism versus Neoliberal-Extractive Environmentalism.
59th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. April 2018.
Sub-Saharan Africa in the Stratified World Economy. Paper. Development in the Face of Global Inequalities Conference. Barcelona. May 2017.
Historical Migration, Geopolitical Relation, and Accumulation Regimes: Chinese Investments in Philippine and Zambian Mining with Alvin A. Camba. Paper.
Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Toronto, ON. March 2017.
Exploring Global Governance and State Formation Through Sea Piracy. Paper. 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. February 2017.
Foreign Aid and Development: A GWR Approach. Paper. 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL. November 2016.
Toward a Multipolar World. High Finance, China and the Global South. Paper. 87th Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA. March/April 2016.
Global Economic Stratification: The China Effect and Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. San Francisco, CA. April 2016.
China in the Capitalist World-Economy: Development of the Global South. Paper. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA. March 2016.
Class Formation in an Era of Global Precarity. Paper. Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. March 2016.
Movements in the Stratified World Economy: The China Effect and Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper. PROWEL Workshop on Vulnerability, Deprivation, Poverty and Inequalities.
Murten, Switzerland. Workshop. December 2015.
Periphery/Semiperiphery in Motion: An Exploration of China’s Influence on Stratification in the World Economy. Paper. Annual Meeting of the California Sociological Association.
Sacramento, CA. November 2015.
Examining the Impact of Chinese Foreign Aid and Investment on Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper. Conference on the Evolution of Economic and Social Inequalities in
Switzerland and Beyond. Neuchâtel, Switzerland. October 2014.
The Case of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: Redefining Subversion in the Long Twentieth Century to the Twenty-first. The Long Twentieth Century. Paper. Twenty-first. Binghamton,
NY. October 2014.
SERVICE
Conference Panels and Sessions Organized
The “Other”, Global Inequalities, and Race. Special Session at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting. August 2018.
Roundtable Session Organizer for the American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System. August 2017.
Chinese Outward Investments in Southeast Asia: Development for Whom? Transformations Where? Association for Asian Studies 2017
Annual Conference. March 2017.
Development, Inequality and Hierarchy: Regional and Global Aspects. 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL. November 2016.
China in the Global South: Perspectives on the Geography of Development. (with Alvin A. Camba) Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers.
San Francisco, CA. April 2016.
China and the Global South. (with Alvin A. Camba) Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA. March/April 2016.
China and the Global South: Perspectives on Development. (with Alvin A. Camba). Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA. March 2016.
Committee Member
Member: American Sociological Association Sociology of Development Section Book Award Committee (2018/2019).
Member: Scholar Activist Committee of the International Studies Association’s International Political Economy Section (2017 to present).
Member: Organizing/Scientific Committee for Asia-Africa: Past Present and Future Conference (2017 to 2019).
Member: Committee on Supporting International and Global Programs in Higher Education Initiative of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Development Section (2017 to 2019).
Editor
PEWSNews: Official Newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Political Economy of the World-System Section (Coeditor – 2018 to present).
http://asapews.org/pewsnews.html
Work in Progress: Sociology on the economy, work and inequality. Public Sociology Blog of the American Sociological Association (Editorial Assistant - 2018 to present).
Trajectories: Official Newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Comparative Historical Sociology Section (Coeditor – 2016 to 2018).
http://chs.asa-comparative-historical.org/category/trajectories/
Copyeditor/Reviewer
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2019)
Sociology of Development (2018 to present)
Historical Materialism Journal (2017 to present)
Journal of World Systems Research (2016 to present)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Société Académique Vaudoise
American Sociological Association
Sections: Political Economy of the World-System; Sociology of Development; Comparative Historical Sociology; Economic Sociology; Race,
Gender and Class; Global and Transnational Sociology
International Studies Association
Sections: International Political Economy; Historical International Relations
California Sociological Association
Latin American Studies Association
Sections: Environment; Labor Studies; International Migration