irows report 2005-2006

IROWS ANNUAL REPORT 2005-2006

Center Director: Christopher Chase-Dunn	Title: Director
Phone: (951) 827 - 2062	Department: Sociology
Email: chriscd@ucr.edu	College: CHASS
Period of Review: 2005-2006
Name of Center: Institute for Research on World-Systems

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A1. GENERAL NARRATIVE: Please provide a short statement highlighting the main activities in which the center has engaged during the review period and how they relate to the mission, goals and objectives of the research center and to the challenges/issues/problems central to the work of the research center. How did the center contributed to UCR’s graduate and undergraduate teaching programs? What activities did the center provide to UCR’s external communities?

MAIN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO MISSION, GOALS, AND OBJECTIVES:

MISSION, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF IROWS: IROWS is the world’s premier institute doing 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 Party Formation.

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 2006/7.

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

Undergraduate:

the Global Studies Major;
Involvement of undergraduates in research projects.

Graduate:

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

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:

Publication of the internationally renowned Journal of World-Systems Research; (www.jwsr.ucr.edu)

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,

· Organization of academic conferences, conference sessions and workshops at UCR and in connection with several regional, national and international professional organizations.

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 Transforming Hegemonies in 2005-2006 and on Global Networks in 2006-2007.

A2. RESEARCH NARRATIVE: Please summarize any significant trends (new research directions, significant increases or decreases in sponsored funding, changes in outreach efforts, etc.) during the review period.

In 2005-2006 three main research projects at IROWS were:

1. One was an NSF-sponsored research on global elite integration in the nineteenth century. This project is winding up and we are working on a final report and a book publication.

2. IROWS obtained NSF-HSD funding for a 3-year project on the rise and fall of states and empires over the past 3000 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 in 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. Five Sociology graduate students attended the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil where they administered a survey research instrument to more than 600 participants. Six graduate students will attend the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya to administer another survey.

Additional projects under development focus upon:

· the trajectory of biotechnology as a new lead industry in the global political economy, and

· the study of the growth of megacities using satellite imagery.

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

A3. ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE: Have any changes been made to the organizational or management structure of the center during the review period? If so, please describe.

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 Emeritus) 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 will cover 75% of Mrs. Thomas’s salary and benefits.

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

For Other Academics: Please list professional researchers, post-docs, visiting scholars, adjunct professors, academic specialists, research associates, academic coordinators, and academic CE appointees who actively participated in Center activities, e.g., PI on a sponsored project administered by the Center, member of a Research Team, speaker at a Center Conference/Event, author on a Center publication, etc.

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			x
Pablo Iglesias-Turrion	Post-doctoral fellow	IROWS			x
Mark Herkenrath	Post-doctoral fellow	IROWS			x	x
Salvatore Babones	Research Fellow				x
Kenneth Barr	Visiting Scholar	IROWS			x	x
Thomas Reifer	Research Fellow	IROWS	x			x
John Gulick	Research Fellow	IROWS			x
Alexis Alvarez	Visiting Scholar	IROWS			x	x

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	Adminstrative 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
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
Linda Kim	Ph.D.	2003	Sociology
Erika Gutierrez	Ph.D.	2003	Sociology
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
Roy Kwon	Ph.D.	2005	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

Yvonne Hsu	graduated	2001	Sociology	Chase-Dunn
Jet Tiu	Senior	2002	Sociology
Jonathan Krauss	Graduated	2001	History
Kim Anunta	Sophomore	2004	Sociology

ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS

For Advisory Committee members, please indicate name, title, and affiliation. Below the table, list dates of meetings held for the period under review and attach a copy of the agenda for each meeting listed.

IROWS Advisory Board (external)

B.2: CENTER PUBLICATIONS

No maximum page limit. Provide information only for fiscal year under review. List only those publications resulting from programs administered through the Center and those authored jointly as a result of collaborations between or among Center participants. Use suggested format below. Use full citation and arrange alphabetically by author under the Center’s major research programs.

Books:

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

Jonathan Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) 2005. Hegemonic Declines: Present and Past. Boulder, CO.: Paradigm Press.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.) 2005. The Historical Evolution of World-Systems. London: Palgrave.

Journal articles:

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas Reifer, Andrew Jorgenson and Shoon Lio 2005 "The U.S. Trajectory: A Quantitative Reflection, Sociological Perspectives 48,2: 233-254.

Book Chapters:

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Barry Gills 2005 “Waves of globalization and resistance in the capitalist world system: social movements and critical globalization studies.” Pp. 45-54 in Richard Appelbaum and William Robinson (eds.) Critical Globalization Studies.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez and Daniel Pasciuti, Forthcoming “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, Alexis Alvarez, and Daniel Pasciuti "Power and Size; urbanization and empire formation in world-systems" Pp. 92-112 in C. Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson (eds.) The Historical Evolution of World-Systems. New York: Palgrave.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall Forthcoming “Ecological degradation and the evolution of world-systems” in Forthcoming in Andrew K. Jorgenson and Edward L. Kick (eds.) Globalization and the Environment. Brill

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.

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

Please list prestigious awards received or held by Center participants from professional organizations, industry, etc.

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:

Prof. Paul James, Director of the Globalism Institute for Studies in Transnationalism, Nationalism and Cultural Diversity, RMIT University, Melbourne, “Globalization and Empire: From the Global Oecumene to the War on Terror” Monday, November 7, Noon. Jenkins Library, 2145 Watkins Hall

Dr. Johan Goudsblom, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam. Author, Nihilism and Culture, Fire and Civilization, Norbert Elias on Civilization, Power and Knowledge, Fire in Human History, and numerous other books “Humans and Fire: A Sociological Look at a Long-Standing and Complex Relationship” Monday, November 14, 3 pm.Humanities 1500

April Linton (Assistant Professor of Sociology, at the University of California at San Diego), will speak on “making coffee trade fair: good taste and good causes.” Wednesday, February 9, Noon, IROWS, College Building South

Amory Starr, Activist, Sociologist, Documentary Filmmaker, and Author of Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization and Global Revolt: A Guide to the Movements against Globalization, will lecture on: "Social Control Of Protest Since Seattle" Commentary by Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Visiting Fellow, IROWS, Friday, November 18, Noon, IROWS, College Building South, College Place,UCR

David A. Smith, Professor, Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of California-Irvine "Global Garment Manufacturing: Industrial Restructuring and Inequality" Wednesday, May 18, Noon. Institute for Research on World-Systems. College Building South

Arif Dirlik, Professor, History and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oregon, "Global modernity, spatial reconfigurations, and global health: perspectives from the People’s Republic of China" Thursday, May 26, 4 pm. Jenkin Library 2145 Watkins Hall

Mark Herkenrath, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Sociological Institute of the University of Zurich, and Visiting Fellow, Institute for Research on World-Systems, UCR “Power Disparities and Frame Disputes in Transnational Social Movement Coalitions” Wednesday, April 20, 3:00 PM, Watkins 1126

Salvatore Babones, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, "Globalization And Social Inequality: Implications For Economic Democracy" Wednesday, March 8, 3:00-4:30 pm, Jenkins Library, 2145 Watkins Hall

“12 Years After NAFTA” Dr. Gemma Lopez Limon, Professor Of Sociology, La Universidad Autonoma De Baja California In Mexicali, Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 12:00-1:30pm, 3324 Olmsted Hall

B.5: SPACE UTILIZED BY CENTER

Please provide explanations or descriptions as required. Changes to number of square feet, space configuration, or space use should be described.

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

On the second table below, please list all pending and planned proposals in fiscal year under review and indicate the total amount of the request.

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	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

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 and took a tenure-track job at Washington State University. Sixteen other graduate students and twelve undergraduates have participated in IROWS research projects since 2001.

The IROWS web site contains 22 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

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