Summer, 2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
RICHARD E. LEE
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Professor, Department of Sociology
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
[or]
Director, Fernand Braudel Center
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Tel.
FAX
607 777-4924
607 777-4315
E-mail [email protected]
Web http://www2.binghamton.edu/sociology/people/richard.html
education
2015 M.M., Music
State University of New York at Binghamton (BU)
Thesis: Salvaging the Italian Way: La lirica italiana from the giovane
scuola to Mid-century, 2015
1995 Ph.D., Sociology
State University of New York at Binghamton (BU)
Dissertation: Herald or Hydra? English Cultural Studies in the Post1945 World-System, 1994.
1990 M.A., Sociology
State University of New York at Binghamton (BU)
1987 B.A., Political Science
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
languages
English, Italian, French--reading, writing and speaking fluency
Spanish--reading and research competency
academic posts
200620052003-05
2002-05
2001-03
Director, Fernand Braudel Center, BU
Professor, Sociology, BU
Associate Professor, Sociology, BU
Deputy Director, Fernand Braudel Center, BU
Assistant Professor, Sociology, BU
honors
2012
2011-12
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hartford
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, BU
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Binghamton University Campus
service
20162012, 14-15
2011
2011-13, 16
2011-12
2010
2008-12
2007-08
2010-12
2008-10
2004-06
2002-04
2004-05
2011-12
2003-04
2002-04
2002
Faculty Senate
Fulbright Review Committee
Academic Development Fund Review Committee
Senior Initiating Personnel Committee: Art History
Senior Initiating Personnel Committee: Sociology, Chair
Council Foundation Awards Committee
Binghamton University Advocacy Day, Albany, NY
Yearly meetings with NY State Legislators
Harpur College Dean Search Committee
Donald G. Nieman appointed
Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Chair, Faculty Governance Leader
Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Chair, Faculty Governance Leader
Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Director of Graduate Studies/Vice-chair, Sociology
Harpur College Council
Experiential Education Advisory Committee
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Sociology
Scholarly Community
External review of promotion/tenure cases:
2005, 2006, 2011
Grant proposal review:
National Science Foundation, USA
Danish Council for Independent Research
Referee for
Book manuscript evaluations:
McGill-Queen’s UP, Roman and Littlefield
Book proposal evaluations:
Blackwell, Routledge, Roxbury
Journal article and book chapter evaluations:
American Journal of Sociology, Current
Sociology, International Journal of Comparative
Sociology, International Sociology, ISA Forum,
Journal of Applied Systems Studies, Journal of
World-Systems Research, Review, Sociological
Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International
Development, Journal of Educational Media,
Memory and Society
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Professional
2016
2013
2010-
2009
2008
200820062006
2004-06
2004
20022002
2001-03
2000-04
199919991998-06
Colloquium Co-organizer, FBC-BU
(with Luiza Moriera)
World Literature: Premises and Problems
Colloquium Organizer, FBC-BU
Making Possible Futures in Research: Working across
the Disciplines
Book Series Editor: SUNY Press
Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical
Social Science
Colloquium Organizer, FBC-BU
(with Dale Tomich and Philip McMichael)
Food, Energy, Environment: Crisis of the Modern
World-System
Colloquium Organizer, FBC-BU
The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis
Editorial Advisory Board
Journal of Philosophical Economics
Editor
Review
Session Organizer, ISA Thematic Session
Crises and Reconstruction: Africa in the World-System,
Durban, South Africa
Scientific Secretary, FBC Symposia: Stanford, Paris, BU
Challenges to Dominant Modes of Knowledge
Session Organizer, ASA Regular Session
The Structures of Knowledge, San Francisco, CA
Editorial Board
Review
Session Organizer, ISA Ad Hoc Session
OPEN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: The Continuing
Discussion, Brisbane, Australia
Organizer, Colloquium Series
The Two Cultures and the World-System, FBC-BU
Editor
Journal of Sociocybernetics
Associate Editor
Journal of Applied Systems Studies
Project Chair
The Categories of Social Knowledge, FBC-BU
Secretary
Research Committee 51
International Sociological Association
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1996-99
1993-96
grants/funding
Project Co-chair
Overcoming the “Two Cultures: Science versus the
Humanities in the Modern World-System, FBC-BU
Scientific Secretary
Open the Social Sciences: Report of the Gulbenkian
Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences
Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the
Social Sciences
“Food Energy, Environment: Crisis of the Modern WorldSystem.” FBC Colloquium, SUNY Conversations in the
Disciplines, PI.
2003
Visiting Scholar Research Support: Maison des Sciences de
l'Homme, Paris, France, 1-28 Feberuary.
2002
“Turning-Point in the Trajectory of the Modern World-System:
Capital Accumulation, Structures of Knowledge, and
Antisystemic Movements.” MOST (UNESCO), Co-PI's
I. Wallerstein and W.G. Martin.
Dean’s Workshop Series
Utopistics, 2006-07
Science Studies (with Gerald Kutcher), 2005-07
The “Two Cultures” and the World-System, 2001-03
Dean’s Travel Grants:
2006, World Congress of the International Sociological
Association, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July;
2004, International Sociological Association Research Council
Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 28-30 May;
2004, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San
Francisco California, 14-17 August;
2002, World Congress of the International
Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July.
2009
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Single-Authored Books
Knowledge Matters: The Structures of Knowledge and the
Crisis of the Modern World-System (Brisbane, Aus.:
Queensland University Press, 2010; New Brunswick,
NJ: Transaction Books, 2011).
Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation
of the Structures of Knowledge (Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2003).
Edited Collections
The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis, edited with an
introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2012).
Studies in World-Systems Analysis, Journal of Philosophical
Economics: Special Issue, IV, 1 (2010), 1-211.
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge I:
Determinism, A Symposium coordinated by Aviv Bergmann,
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein, edited with an
introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2010).
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge II:
Reductionism, A Symposium coordinated by Aviv Bergmann,
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein, edited with an
introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2010).
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge III:
Dualism, A Symposium coordinated by Aviv Bergmann, JeanPierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein, edited with an
introduction by Richard E. Lee (Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2010).
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Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the
Humanities in the Modern World-System, cocoordinator Immanuel Wallerstein (New York:
Paradigm, 2004).
[Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007)]
World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions,
co-editor Gerhard Preyer, Protosociology 20 (2004): 1257.
Sociocybernetic Approaches to Social Change, International Review
of Sociology (12, 2, 2002), 187-342.
Book Chapters
“Foreword.” Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition, by Dale Tomich.
(Albany: SUNY Press, 2016), xiii.
“Fernand Braudel and the Fernand Braudel Center.” Annales in Perspective:
Designs and Accomplishments, edited by Filip Šimetin Šegvic (Zagreb:
Zagreb University Press, forthcoming).
“Postfazione/Afterword.” Passaggi in Pianura/Crossing the Plain, by Corrinna
Cadetto (Udine, Italy: Kappa Vu, 2012), 61-63.
“The Structures of Knowledge: Conceptualizing the Socio-Cultural Arena of
Historical Capitalism.” Handbook of World-Systems Analysis (New
York: Routledge, 2012) 104-11.
“Introduction: Fernand Braudel, the Longue Durée, and World-Systems
Analysis.” The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2012), 1-7.
“The Longue Durée and the Status of ‘Superstructures’.” The Longue Durée
and World-Systems Analysis (Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2012), 161-70.
“The Structures of Knowledge in a World in Transition.”Worldviews, Science
and Us: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society,
edited by Diederik Aerts, Bart D’Hooghe, Rik Pinxten, and Immanuel
Wallerstein (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 164-80).
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“The Modern World-System: Its Structures, Its Geoculture, Its Crisis and
Transformation.” Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World:
System, Scale, Culture, edited by David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce Robbins
and Nirvana Tanoukhi (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 2740.
“Introduction.” Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about
Knowledge: Determinism, A Symposium co-coordinated by Aviv
Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2010), 1-4.
“Introduction.” Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about
Knowledge: Reductionism, A Symposium co-coordinated by Aviv
Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2010), 1-4.
“Introduction.” Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about
Knowledge: Dualism, A Symposium co-coordinated by Aviv
Bergmann, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, and Immanuel Wallerstein (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2010), 1-4.
“Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Impact of Cultural Studies.”
Richard Hoggart and Cultural Studies, edited by Sue Owen (London:
Palgrave, 2008), 88-104.
“Science Wars: Whither the Two Cultures?” Cognitive Justice in a Global
World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life, edited by Boaventura de
Sousa Santos (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2007), 71-86.
“Between Wert and Wissen: A Future for the Three Cultures?” Collection in the
Humanities (Riga: Russian Baltic Institute, 2005), 131-45.
“Introduction: The Two Cultures,” co-author Immanuel Wallerstein.
Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the Humanities in
the Modern World-System, Richard E. Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein,
coords. (New York: Paradigm, 2004), 1-5.
[Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007), 9-14]
“Complexity Studies.” Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the
Humanities in the Modern World-System, Richard E. Lee and
Immanuel Wallerstein, coords. (New York: Paradigm, 2004), 107-17.
[Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007), 139-52]
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“The 'Culture Wars' and the 'Science Wars’.” Overcoming the Two Cultures:
The Sciences and the Humanities in the Modern World-System, Richard
E. Lee and Immanuel Wallerstein, coords. (New York: Paradigm,
2004), 189-202.
[Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Metis, 2007), 244-61]
“O destino das 'duas culturas': mais uma salva de tiros nas 'guerras da ciência'.”
Conhecimento Prudente para uma Vida Decente: Um Discurso sobre as
Ciencias Revisitado, edited by Boventura de Sousa Santos (Porto:
Afrontamento, 2003), 81-98.
[Brazilian Edition (São Paulo: Cortez, 2004), 85-102]
“The 'Third' Arena: Trends and Logistics in the Geoculture of the Modern
World-System.” Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System,
Vol. I, edited by Wilma A. Dunaway (Westport: Greenwood, 2003),
120-27.
“Bucking the System: The TimeSpace of Antisystemic Movements.” The
Modern World-System in the 20th Century, edited by Ramón
Grosfoguel and Margarita Rodriguez (Westport: Greenwood, 2002), 2132.
“The History on Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological
Association.” [Editors title; originally “The History, Goals,
Accomplishments and Future Plans of the Research Committee on
Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological Association”]
Understanding Complexity, edited by Jennifer Wilby and Gillian
Ragsdell (London: Plenum, 2001), 41-3.
“Structures of Knowledge,” co-author Immanuel Wallerstein. The Blackwell
Companion to Sociology, edited by Judith Blau (Cambridge, MA:
Blackwell, 2000), 227-35.
“The Incorporation of West Africa: A Numerical Analysis of Railroad
Expansion.” Space and Transport in the World-System, edited by Paul
S. Ciccantell and Stephen G. Bunker (Westport: Greenwood, 1998),
152-68.
“Thinking the Past/Making the Future: Methods and Purpose in WorldHistorical Science.” Mentoring, Methods, and Movements: Colloquium
in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins by his Former Students, edited by
Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton: Fernand Braudel Center/Ahead,
1998), 63-8.
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“Structures of Knowledge.” The Age of Transition: Trajectory of the WorldSystem, 1945-2025, coordinated by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel
Wallerstein, et al. (London: Zed, 1996), 178-206.
[Italian Edition (Trieste: Asterios Editore, 1997), 217-49]
[Korean Edition (1998), 216-53]
[Japanese Edition (1999), 227-64]
[Turkish Edition (Istanbul: Avesta, 1999), 225-60]
[Chinese Edition (Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2002), 192-224]
“Hegemonic Cities in the Modern World-System,” co-author Sheila Pelizzon.
Cities in the World System, edited by Resat Kasaba (Westport:
Greenwood, 1991), 43-54.
Articles in Journals
“The Cultural Construction of Hegemony: The Library of Congress
Cataloguing System.” Review (XXXVIII, 2, 2015).
“Disciplines and the University, Today and Tomorrow.” Review (XXXVII, 1,
2014).
“What Next for Knowledge Production in Crisis? Historical Social Science and
the Social Humanities.” Dong Bang Hak Chi (156, December, 2011),
131-54. [Korean]
“Critiques and Developments in World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction to
the Collection.” Studies in World-Systems Analysis, Journal of
Philosophical Economics, Special Issue (IV, 1, 2010), 5-18.
“Economics, the Structures of Knowledge, and the Quest for a More
Substantively Rational World.” Journal of Philosophical Economics (1,
1, 2007), 8-21.
“Legitimating Hierarchy and Constructing Consensus, or the ‘Cultural’ Aspect
of the Modern World-System: The Morant Bay Uprising, the Irish
Rebellion, and English Franchise Reform.” Review (XXX, 3, 2007),
215-29.
“Cultural Studies, Complexity Studies and the Transformation of the Structures
of Knowledge.” International Journal of Cultural Studies (10, 1, 2007),
11-20.
“Social Knowledge for a World in Transition: Sociocybernetics and the
Contemporary Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge.”
Kybernetes, Festschrift for Felix Geyer, edited by Vessela Misheva and
Bernard Scott (35, 1/2, 2006), 457-66.
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“Complexity and the Social Sciences. Review (XXIX, 1, 2006), 115-34.
“Introduction,” co-author Gerhard Preyer. Protosociology, Special Issue,
edited by Richard E. Lee and Gerhard Preyer: World-System Analysis:
Contemporary Research and Directions (20, 2004), 6-12.
“A Note on Method with an Example—The ‘War on Terror’.” Protosociology,
Special Issue, edited by Richard E. Lee and Gerhard Preyer: WorldSystem Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions (20, 2004),
71-84.
“Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again? The Structures of Knowledge
and the Future of the Social Sciences. Futures, Special Issue: The
Future of the Future in the Social Sciences, edited by Bruce Tonn (35,
2003), 621-32.
“Sociocybernetic Approaches for a Changing World: An Introduction.
International Review of Sociology (12, 2, 2002), 187-91.
“Imagining the Future: Constructing Social Knowledge after ‘Complexity
Studies’.” International Review of Sociology (12, 2, 2002), 333-41.
“Sesión Inaugural.” Inaugural Address, Third International Conference on
Sociocybernetics. Spanish-English Parallel Text, Journal of
Sociocybernetics (2, 2, 2001/2), 43-8.
[www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics]
“After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism.” Protosoziologie,
Special Issue: On a Sociology of Borderlines - Social Process in Time of
Globalization, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Mathias Bös (15, 2001),
87-104.
[Reprinted in Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a
Sociology of the World-System, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Mathias
Bös, Social Indicators Series (London: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2002), 67-82]
“The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences: Two
Postulates, Two Propositions and a Closing Remark.” Festschrift for
Immanuel Wallerstein - Part II, Journal of World-Systems Research,
edited by Giovanni Arrighi and Walter Goldfrank (VI, 3, 2000), 786-96.
[http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr; now, http://jwsr.ucr.edu]
“Readings in the ‘New Science’: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography.”
Review (XV, 1, 1992), 113-71.
[Reprinted in Historical Social Research (18, 1, 1993), 26-70.]
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Encyclopedia Entries, Reviews, Translations, Chapbooks, Proceedings,
Mimeos, Website Publications, Videos, and other miscellany
Review of Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development: Visions,
Remembrances, and Explorations (London: Routledge, 2011).
Geschichte-transnational, 18 October 2013. http://geschichtetransnational.clio-online.net/rezensionen/id=17245
Review of The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in
Fifteenth-Century Tuscany (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
2009). Journal of World-Systems Research (18, 2, 2012), 280-84.
“An Emerging Historical Social Science and Its Methodology.” Crisis in
Scholarship and the Reconstruction of Public Knowledge: Resources
and Methodologies for Social Humanities. Proceedings of the
Conference held at the Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea, 2-3 June 2011, IKS (2011): 123-37.
Review of Culture and Power: A History of Cultural Studies, by Mark Gibson
(Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007). International
Journal of Cultural Studies (11, 1, 2008), 123-124.
“Humanism.” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition,
edited by William A Darity (Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale,
2007).
“Braudel Fernand (1902-1986 [sic]).” Encyclopedia of Law and Society:
American and Global Perspectives, edited by David S. Clark (Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007), Vol. 1: 130-31.
“Letter from the Editor.” Review (XXIX, 1, 2006), iii.
Review of World Culture: Origins and Consequences, by Frank J. Lechner and
John Boli (Malden MA: Blackwell, 2005). International History Review
(XXIX, 2, 2007), 462-63.
”Complexity and the Social Sciences.” Coleción: Conceptos
Fundamentales de Nuestro Tiempo (México, D.F.: UNAM:
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 2007).
[http://maremival.sociales.unam.mx/conceptos/leer_trabajo.ph
p?id_trabajo=50&categoria=c&b=con, 2005]
“Cognition and Intentionality: The Third Arena of Historical Capitalism.”
Knowledge-based Economy: Its Achievements and Problems,
Proceedings of the Conference held at Daegu University, Korea, 19
May 2006, KSESA (2006): 162-80.
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Social Science and Social Policy: From National
Dilemmas to Global Opportunities, coauthors, William J. Martin, Heinz R.
Sonntag, Peter J. Taylor, Immanuel
Wallerstein, and Michel Wieviorka
(Paris: UNESCO, 2005).
[English, French, and Spanish Editions]
Review of Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical
Traditions, by Johann P. Arnason (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003).
Contemporary Sociology (34, 2, 2005), 212-13.
“Events and Histories of Knowledge.” Translation of “Événements et Histoires
de Savoir,” by Isabelle Stengers, in L'homme devant l'incertain, edited
by Ilya Prigogine (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2001, 359-77). Review (XXVIII,
2, 2005), 143-69.
Review of World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change,
edited by Robert A. Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills and
George Modelski (London and New York: Routledge, 2000). Journal of
World-Systems Research (VIII, 3, 2002), 458-62.
“The Crisis of the Structures of Knowledge: Where Do We Go from Here?”
Social Sciences and Transdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian
Experiences, edited by Rosalind Boyd and Alberto Flórez-Malagon
(Montréal: CDAS, 2000), 117-23.
[Spanish translation in Desafíos de la transdisciplinariedad, edited by
Alberto Flórez Malagón and Carmen Millán de Benavides (Bogotá:
CEJA, 2002), 206-15]
“A Journal for Sociocybernetics,” co-authors Felix Geyer and Bernd Hornung.
Journal of Sociocybernetics (1, 1, 2000), 1-6.
[www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics]
“Report on the RC51 Annual Meeting.” Newsletter, Research Committee on
Sociocybernetics of the International Sociological Association (4, 2,
1999), n.p.
“Dilemmas of Identity.” Newsletter, Research Committee on Sociocybernetics
of the International Sociological Association (4, 1, 1999), n.p.
“What is Chaos Theory?” Translation of “Qu'est-ce que la théorie du chaos?”
from Le Chaos, by Ivar Ekeland (Paris: Flammarion, 1995). Review
(XXI, 1, 1998), 137-50.
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Complexity Studies and the Human Sciences: Pressures, Initiatives and
Consequences of Overcoming the Two Cultures (México, D.F.:
CIIECH/UNAM, 1998).
Complexity Studies and the Human Sciences: Pressures, Initiatives and
Consequences of Overcoming the Two Cultures, Videoteca de Ciencias
y Humanidades, Colección: Las Ciencias y las Humanidades en los
Umbrales del Siglo XXI (México, D.F.: CIIECH/UNAM, 1998).
“The Laws of Chaos.” Translation of Ch. 1 and 9 of Le leggi del caos/Les lois
du chaos, by Ilya Prigogine (Rome/Paris: Laterza/Flammarion,
1993/1994). Review (XIX, 1, 1996), 1-11.
“Social Science Knowledge: A Report on Institutionalization” (Binghamton:
Fernand Braudel Center, 1994).
“John Pinkard.” History of Freestone County Texas, II, by Freestone County
Historical Commission (Winston-Salem: Hunter, 1989), 413.
“Robert Edwin Lee.” History of Freestone County Texas, II, by Freestone
County Historical Commission (Winston-Salem: Hunter, 1989), 327-28.
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meetings
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Invited Lectures/Seminars/Workshops
“The Dance Photography of Barbara Morgan: Reading the Technology,
Esthetics, and Social Life of the Image.”
Photographs through the Eyes of Others, Binghamton University Art
Museum, 29 April 2015.
“Disciplines and the University, Today and Tomorrow: Historical Social
Science, Social Humanities, and What Kind of Science.”
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
Binghamton University, 17 April 2013.
“The Structures of Knowledge and the Crisis of the Modern World-System.”
Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems Research Group.
Binghamton University, 10 October 2012.
“Knowledge Production: Institutions and Future.”
Plenary Lecture funded by NEH and Harry Jack Gray grants.
University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., 3 October 2012.
“The Structure and Crisis of Knowledge Production.”
Six seminars funded by NEH and Harry Jack Gray grants.
University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn., 26-28 June 2012.
“The Fernand Braudel Center and the Structures of Knowledge: A Workshop.”
Institute of Korean Studies.
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 4 June 2011.
“Communications: What Revolution?”
Technology, Entertainment, Design (TEDx) Conference.
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2 April 2011.
“A Continuing Research Trajectory: Communications Technologies and the
Structures of Knowledge.”
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.
“Discovering the ‘Third Arena’: World-System Approaches to the
Sociocultural Realm.”
Department of Sociology.
Binghamton University, 27 February 2008.
“World-Systems Analysis, the Fernand Braudel Center, and the Development
of Historical Social Science.”
College of Social Science.
Daegu University, Daegu, Korea, 18 May 2006.
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“The Contemporary Reordering of Social Knowledge: The Role of Systems
Approaches and Complexity Studies.”
13th WOSC & 6th Sociocybernetic Congress.
Maribor, Slovenia, 5-10 July 2005.
“Unthinking the Social Sciences: A Possible Future.”
Kongress zu Reproduktionsbedingungen und Perspektiven kritischer,
Theorie Kritische, Wissenschaft, Emanzipation und die Entwicklung
der Hochschulen.
Universität Frankfurt am Main, Studierendenhaus, 1-3 July 2005.
“Complexity and the Social Sciences.”
75th Anniversary Conference of the Instituto de Investigaciones
Sociales, “Algunos conceptos fundamentales para el análisis de la
sociedad contemporánea.”
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 27 June-1 July 2005.
“A che cosa assomiglia la Guerra contro il terrorismo? Scelta un’analogia,
scelto un futuro.”
Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, 10 December 2003.
“Without Begging the Question: The Cultural Aspect of the Modern WorldSystem.”
Coloniality Working Group, Fernand Braudel Center.
SUNY-Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 6 December 2002.
“Sesión Inaugural.”
Plenary Address, Third International Conference on Sociocybernetics:
“The 21st Century and Possible Worlds.”
Universidad Iberoamericana, León, Mexico, 24 June-1 July 2001.
“The History, Goals, Accomplishments and Future Plans of the Research
Committee on Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological
Association.”
Plenary Address, World Congress of the Systems Sciences.
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto Canada, 16-22 July 2000.
“Los nuevos vínculos entre las ciencias y las humanidades?”
Seminario sobre “Conceptos en Ciencias y Humanidades.”
Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y
Humanidades, UNAM, Mexico City, 14 October 1998.
“Civilizations, Cultures, Societies or Historical Social Systems?”
5th European School of Systems Science.
Centre interfacultaire d'études systémiques, Université de Neuchâtel,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7-11 September 1998.
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“World-Systems Analysis: A Genealogy.”
5th European School of Systems Science.
Centre interfacultaire d'études systémiques, Université de Neuchâtel,
Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 7-11 September 1998.
“Los estudios sobre la complejidad y las ciencias humanas.”
Seminario Permanente sobre “El Mundo Actual: situación y
alternativas.”
Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y
Humanidades, UNAM, Mexico City, 19 March 1998.
Colloquia/Symposia
“Time for History: The Legacy of Fernand Braudel.”
The Transformation of Global History: 1963-1975. Princeton
University, 9-10 October 2015.
“Crossing Disciplinary Borders and the Making of Scholarly Authority.”
Making Possible Futures in Research: Working across the Disciplines,
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 18-19 October 2013.
“Scholarly Journals in the Era of Electronic Publishing: Dilemmas and
Prospective.”
New Approaches to Scholarly Communications and Publishing, Bartle
Library, Binghamton University, 15-16 April 2009.
“The Longue Durée and the Status of ‘Superstructures’.”
The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis. Colloquium to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Fernand
Braudel, “Histoire et sciences sociales: La longue durée.” Fernand
Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 24-25 October 2008.
“The University and the Structuring of Values.”
The Question of Ethics and the University. What Could Be Different?
What Might Be Accomplished? Roundtable organized by Vikram
Chaubey, Margaret Hendrickx, and Stephen David Ross, Binghamton
University Downtown Center, 16 November 2007.
“World-System Analysis: An Approach to the ‘Cultural’ Realm.”
World-Scale Ambitions? Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall,
April 28, 2005.
“Whither the 'Two Cultures'? Another Volley in the 'Science Wars'.”
Fernand Braudel Center Seminar #02, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNYBinghamton, Binghamton, NY, 24 October 2002.
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Symposium, “Globalizing the Academy.”
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 16-17 November 2000.
“The Crisis of the Structures of Knowledge: Where Do We Go from Here?”
Centre for Developing-Area Studies Workshop, “Social Sciences and
Interdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences,” McGill
University, Montréal, Canada, 23-26 September 1999.
“A World-Systems View of Systems Approaches to the Analysis of Social
Change.”
FER Science Assessment Workshop, “Complex Systems Thinking
Revisited,” Centre interfacultaire d'études systémiques, Université de
Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 4-5 September 1998.
“Thinking the Past/Making the Future: Methods and Purpose in World-Scale
Historical Science.”
“Mentoring, Methods and Movements: A Colloquium in Honor of
Terence K. Hopkins,” New York, NY, 15 August 1996.
“Between Wert and Wissen: A Future for the Three Cultures?”
Symposium, “Which Sciences for Tomorrow? Dialogue on the
Gulbenkian Report: Open the Social Sciences,” Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, 2-3 June 1996.
“Remarks: On 'Thinking the Unthought'.”
Symposium, “Which Sciences for Tomorrow? Dialogue on the
Gulbenkian Report: Open the Social Sciences,” Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, 2-3 June 1996.
Conferences
“Understanding in the Historical Sciences: Lessons from the Longue Durée.”
Beyond Modernity: Transepochal Perspectives on Spaces, Actors and
Structures; Basel Graduate School of History, Institute for European
Global Studies, Basel, Switzerland; 28-29 November 2014.
“Keeping Culture Alive! Anthony King, World-Systems Analysis, and the
Fernand Braudel Center.”
Writing the Global City: A Tribute to Professor Anthony D. King,
Binghamton University, 4-5 October 2013.
“An Emerging Historical Social Science and its Methodology.”
Crisis in Scholarship and the Reconstruction of Public Knowledge:
Resources and Methodologies for Social Humanities, Institute of
Korean Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2-3 June 2011.
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“Historical Social Science as a Science of Culture.”
Creative Destruction: Lessons for Science and Innovation Policy from
the Rise of the Creative Industries, CCi/FEAST Joint Research
Workshop (contributed), Brisbane, Australia, 27-8 March 2008.
“Cognition and Intentionality: The Third Arena of Historical Capitalism.”
Korea Social and Economic Studies Association, Daegu University,
Korea, 18 May 2006.
“Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Impact of Cultural Studies.”
The Uses of Richard Hoggart: An International, Interdisciplinary
Conference on Richard Hoggart’s Work and Influence, University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, 3-5 April 2006.
“A Note on Method with an Example—The ‘War on Terror’.”
International Sociological Association Research Council
Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 28-30 May 2004.
“The 'War on Terror': Braudelian Dust or Secular Sandstorm?”
ISA XV World Congress of Sociology, “The Social World in the 21st
Century,” Brisbane, Australia, 7-13 July 2002.
“The 911 World: Hegemonic Conflict or Transition Struggle?”
Political Economy of the World-System 26th Annual Conference
(PEWS XXVI), IROWS, UC-Riverside, Riverside, CA, 3-4 May 2002.
“Comment on Collins, Mamdani, and de Sousa Santos.”
“The Modern World-System in the Longue Durée: A Conference to
Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Fernand Braudel Center,”
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 2-3 November 2001.
“Cases of Classes, Instances of Processes: Methodological Individualism,
Systems, and Historical Social Science.”
Third International Conference on Sociocybernetics, Universidad
Iberoamericana León, Mexico, 24 June-1 July 2001.
“Trends and Logistics in the 'Third' Arena: A Note on Conceptualization.”
Political Economy of the World-System 25th Annual Conference
(PEWS XXV), Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, 19-21 April
2001.
“Sociocybernetic Approaches to Social Change.”
ISA Research Council Conference, “Social Transformations at the Turn
of the Millennium: Sociological Theory and Contemporary Empirical
Research,” Université de Monréal, Montréal, Canada, 28-30 July 2000.
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“Local Action, Global Consequences? Agency and Structure in Contemporary
Social Change.”
World Congress of the Systems Sciences/International Society for the
Systems Sciences 44th Annual Meeting, Ryerson Polytechnic
University, Toronto, Canada, 16-22 July 2000.
“The Contradictory Effects of a 'Globalization' Perspective: Methods and their
Unanticipated Consequences.”
ISA RC51 World Congress on Sociocybernetics, Panticosa, Spain, 25
June-1 July 2000.
“Bucking the System: The TimeSpace of Antisystemic Movements.”
Political Economy of the World-System 24th Annual Conference
(PEWS XXIV), “The Modern World-System in the 20th Century,”
Boston College, Boston, MA, 24-25 March 2000.
“'Us' and 'Them' in the Study of Long-Term, Large-Scale Social Change.”
ISA RC51 World Congress on Sociocybernetics, Kolimbari, Crete,
Greece, 26-31 May 1999.
“The Politics of Knowledge Formation: Social Movements and the Structures
of Knowledge.”
Political Economy of the World-System 23rd Annual Conference
(PEWS XXIII), “Inequality and Social Movements,” University of
Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 26-27 March 1999.
“Imagining the Future: Constructing Social Knowledge after 'Complexity
Studies'.”
ISA XIV World Congress of Sociology, “Social Knowledge: Heritage,
Challenges, Perspectives,” Joint Session RC07 (Futures Research) and
WG01 (Sociocybernetics and Social System Theory), Montréal,
Québec, 26 July-1 August 1998.
“The Politics of Accumulation: Race, Nation and Gender in Victorian
England.”
SISSI, “The Image of Class in Literature, the Media, and Society,”
University of Southern Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, 12-14 March
1998.
“After Humanism, After Liberalism: Science and Literature at the 'End of
History'.”
Conference, “Apocalypse, Millenarism, New Boundaries,” Binghamton
University, Binghamton, NY, 2-4 May 1997.
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“Position Statement and Presentation.”
SLS '96 Panel, “You Just Don't Understand: Talking Across the
Boundary at SLS,” Atlanta, GA, 10-13 October 1996.
“Cultural Studies as Geisteswissenschaften: Time, Objectivity, and the Future
of Social Science.”
ACLA '96, “Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies,”
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 11-13 April 1996.
“The Incorporation of West Africa: A Numerical Analysis of Railroad
Expansion.”
Political Economy of the World-System 20th Annual Conference
(PEWS XX), “Space and Transport in the World-System,” Kansas State
University, Manhattan, KS, 19-20 April 1996.
“Cultural Studies and the De-Disciplining of Knowledge: The Classical
Ballerina in the Service of International Advertising.”
Conference, “Literature and Popular Culture,” Binghamton University,
Binghamton, NY, 21-22 April 1995.
“Transition and the Disciplines: A Historical Perspective on the Present Crisis.”
ACLA '95, “Literature and Science: Historical and Global
Perspectives,” University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 16-18 March 1995.
“Hegemonic Cities in the Modern World-System.”
(with Sheila Pelizzon), Political Economy of the World-System 14th
Annual Conference (PEWS XIV), “Cities in the World-System,”
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 29-30 March 1990.
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Courses Offered
Graduate
World-Systems Analysis
Theoretical Studies
Structures of Knowledge
Imperialism
Undergraduate
Sociology of Music
Culture and Imperialism
Liberalism and After
Historical Social Science
Foundations of Social Theory
Social Research Methods
Unthinking Science
Race and Cultural Relations in the World Community: The Making and
Breaking of the Liberal Consensus, 1789-1989
Cultural Studies
Social Change: Global Perspective
Sociological Theories and Perspectives: Contemporary Dilemmas
Structures of Knowledge/Cultures of Power
Social Problems in the U.S.
Issues in Contemporary Art (Department of Art History)
Music, Literature and the Visual Arts in Society
Dissertations Chaired
Florence Molk
The Identity of Europe in the Modern World-System: Instituting Core
Processes in the Space of Policing (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2016).
Reiko Koide
Political Economy of Public Education: The Case of Japan (Defended,
Sociology, BU, 2013).
Sally Dear
Like Mother, Like Daughter? Factors Influencing the Transmission of
Beliefs, Attitudes, and Behaviors about Pregnancy, Birth, and Early
Mothering (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2011).
Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli
Class, Nation, and Purity: A Critical Approach to Theories and
Practices of Eugenics in Early Republican Turkey (Defended,
Sociology, BU, 2009).
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Boris Stremlin
Constructing a Multiparadigm World History: Civilizations, Ecumenes,
and World-Systems in the Ancient Near East (Defended, Sociology, BU,
2005).
Robert Ostertag
People’s Movements, Peoples Press: The Journalism of Social Justice
Movements in the United States (Defended, Sociology, BU, 2005).