Christopher Chase-Dunn

Vita 5-9-14

Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems
Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA.92521-0419 USA
(951) 827-2062 Fax (951) 827-3330, E-mail:
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  • Date of Birth: January 10, 1944
  • Place of Birth: Corvallis, Oregon, USA
  • Marital Status: Married
  • 1964 Shasta College, Redding, CA., Journalism
  • 1966 University of California, Berkeley, Psychology, B.A.
  • 1968 StanfordUniversity, Sociology, MA
  • 1975 StanfordUniversity, Sociology, PhD. Dissertation:

“International Economic Dependence in the World-System”

  • 1966-1967 National Institute of Health Traineeship, Stanford.
  • 1973-1974 University Consortium for World Order Studies, James P. Warburg Research Fellow.
  • 1992 Distinguished Publication Award, Political Economy of the World-System section of American Sociological
  • Association for Global Formation.
  • 1993 Elected to Sociological Research Association.
  • 2001 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • 2002 Elected President of the Research Committee on Economy and Society (RC02) of the International Sociology
  • Association
  • 2008-2009 Elected Distinguished Senior Scholar of the International Political Economy (IPE) section of the International Studies Association
    2012 Elected President of the California Sociological Association

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

  • 1975-1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Relations, JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
  • 1983-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
  • 1988-2000 Professor, Department of Sociology, JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
  • 2000- present, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS

  • 2000-present, Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems
  • 2003-2008, Chair of the Political Economy and Global Social Change graduate specialization, UCR Department of Sociology
  • 2011- Chair of the Evolutionary Sociology graduate specialization, UCR Department of Sociology
  • 2005-2008 UCR Senate Committee on Academic Personnel, Chair 2008 (all tenure-track merits and promotions)
  • 2008-2010, Director of the University of California-Riverside University Honors Program (900 undergraduates,

a staff of five and an annual budget of $900,000

  • 2010- Graduate Advisor and Chair of the Graduate Affairs Committee, UCR Sociology Department
  • 2011- Program Faculty Member, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Management, UCRSchool of Business Administration
  • 2011- Vice President of the Riverside Faculty Association
  • 2012 President of the California Sociological Association

RESEARCH GRANTS

  • 1973-1974 Project Director of Cross-national Study of the Effects of International Economic Dependence on Income Inequality,
  • University Consortium for World Order Studies.
  • 1975-1978 Associate Research Scientist, Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
  • 1979-1984 Principal Investigator of Cross-national Research Project on the World Division of Labor and the Development of City Systems
  • (National Science Foundation).
  • 1991-1993 Principal Investigator research project on "Intersocietal inequalities in very small world-systems" National Science Foundation,
  • Sociology Program.
  • 1998-1999 Principal Investigator, Guatemalan Development and Democracy, National Science Foundation, Division of International Programs
  • 2000-2002 Principal Investigator, "Trajectories and causes of structural globalization, 1800-2000," National Science Foundation, Sociology Program.
  • 2003 Co-Principal Investigator, "Labor solidarity and transportation in the globalizing commodity chains and circuits of capital of the Pacific Rim.
  • " UC Institute for Labor Education (with Edna Bonacich and Thomas E. Reifer).
  • 2004 Co-Principal Investigator, "Social Bases of Global Elite Integration" National Science Foundation, Sociology Program (with Thomas E. Reifer)
  • 2005 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 (with E.N. Anderson and Peter Turchin)
  • 2006 Co-Principal Investigator, “US Labor Revitalization and the Global Social Forum Process” UC Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) with Ellen Reese.

AREAS OF TEACHING INTEREST

  • Transnational Social Movements and World Revolutions
  • Comparative Civilizations and Global Culture
  • Political Economy and Global Social Change
  • Sociocultural Evolution
  • World-Systems Ecology
  • Urbanization and Settlement Systems
  • Macrocomparative Research Methods

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • The rise, fall and upward sweeps and collapses of settlements and polities since the Paleolithic
  • World cities and suburbanization
  • Trajectory of U.S. hegemony
  • World Revolutions
  • Web Science
  • Transnational Social Movements and Populist Regimes in the Global South
  • Political Globalization: the evolution of global governance, global state formation and global democracy

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • 1984-1986 Chair of the International Studies Association section on International Political Economy.
  • 1983-1993 Chair of Graduate Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
  • 1994-present Coordinator of the Program on Crossnational Sociology and International Development, JohnsHopkinsUniversity.
  • 1982 Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World-System.
  • 1994 Member of JohnsHopkinsUniversity Committee to Organize a Global Studies Program.
  • 1973-present Associate Editor, Critical Sociology.
  • 1979-1982 Associate Editor, Social Problems.
  • 1978-1985 Advisory Editor, Sociological Quarterly.
  • 1980-1989 Editorial Advisory Board, International Studies Quarterly.
  • 1984-present Member of Board of Editors, International Political Economy Yearbook. IPE Section of the International Studies Association.
  • 1988-1991 Member of Ruling Council of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations.
  • 1988-90 Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Political and Military Sociology.
  • 1992-1997 International Board, Review of International Political Economy.
  • 1992-2000 Founder and former List-owner, wsn, a world-systems electronic conferencing network at csf.colorado.edu
  • 1994-2007, Founder and Former Editor, Journal of World-Systems Research
  • 1995-2002 Treasurer RC02 Economy and Society Research Committee, International Sociological Association
  • 2000- Founder and Director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems, University of California, Riverside.
  • 2002-Series Editor, Themes in Global Social Change, Johns Hopkins University Press
  • 2002-2006 President of RC02 Economy and Society Research Committee, International Sociological Association
  • 2003-present, Member of Executive Board, Global Studies Association-North America
  • Special Advisor, Globalizations 2005-present
  • 2005-2008 UCR Committee on Academic Personnel
  • 2007- Member of the International Advisory Board of Hemispheres: A Journal of the Global South
  • 2008-2010, Director of the University of California-Riverside University Honors Program
  • 2011- UCR Senate Graduate Council; 2012 Chair of the Programs and Courses Subcommittee; 2013 Alternate GC Representative
  • to the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs.
  • 2011- Program Faculty Member, Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Management, UCRSchool of Business Administration
  • President of the California Sociological Association
  • Journal Referee or Book Reviewer for American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology,
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Sociology of Education, Comparative
  • Political Studies, Social Forces, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Comparative Studies in Society and History,
  • American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Sociological Inquiry, Current Anthropology, Journal of Asian Studies,
  • Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,Social Dynamics, Journal of Archaeological Research,
  • Globalizations, Cooperation and Conflict, International Journal of Comparative Sociology and Historical Materialism.

BOOKS

Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) Socialist States in the World-System.Beverly Hills: Sage. 1982.

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 editionpublished in 1998 by Rowman and Littlefield.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall (eds.) Core/Periphery Relations in the Precapitalist Worlds.Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.

Christopher Chase-Dunn (ed.) The Historical Evolution of the International Political Economy In the Library of International Political Economy

series, Cheltanham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1995.

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.

Volker Bornschier and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) The Future of Global ConflictLondon: Sage. 1999. To be republished in the Sage

Online Books Platform, 2012.

Terry Boswell and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 2000 The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner.

Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association Outstanding Book of the Year Award, August 18.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Nelson Amaro and Susanne Jonas (eds.) 2001 Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development.

Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore Babones (eds.) 2006 Global Social Change: Comparative and World Historical Perspectives. Baltimore:

Johns Hopkins University Press.

Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella dellaPorta, RosalbaIcaza Garza, Jeffrey S. Juris,

Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter Jay Smith and Rolando Vazquez 2007 Global Democracy and the World Social Forums. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers; Revised 2nd edition 2014

Salvatore Babones and Christopher Chase-Dunn (eds.) 2012 Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis: Theory and Research London: Routledge

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Lerro2014Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present. Paradigm Publishers.

Immanuel Wallerstein, Chris Chase-Dunn and Christian Suter (eds.) 2014Overcoming Global InequalitiesBoulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

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.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Richard Rubinson 1977 "Toward a structural perspective on the world-system." Politics and Society 7, 4:453-76.

Volker Bornschier, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Richard Rubinson. 1978. "Cross-national evidence of the effects of foreign investment and aid on economic growth and

inequality: a survey of findings and a reanalysis," American Journal of Sociology 84, 3:651-83. Reprinted in Pp. 187-210 in A. Seligson. The Gap Between Rich and Poor.

Boulder: Westview Press, 1984. Revised version in Volker Bornschier, MultinationaleKonzerne, Wirtschaftspolitik und nationaleEntwicklungimWeltsystem.

Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1980.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1979. "Comparative research on world-system characteristics." International Studies Quarterly 23, 4:601-623, December.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1980. "Socialist states in the capitalist world-economy," Social Problems 27, 5:505-525, June.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1980. "Stages of dependency or cycles of world- system development?" Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 8, 1:1-24, Fall/Winter.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1981. "Interstate system and capitalist world-economy: one logic or two?" International Studies Quarterly 25, 1:19-42, March. Reprinted in

World System Structure: Continuity and Change, edited by W. Ladd Hollist and James Rosenau. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1981 and in Joseph Grieco (ed.)

The International System and the International Political Economy, London: Edward Elgar, 1993; and in George T. Crane and AblaAmawi (eds.)

The Theoretical Evolution of the International Political Economy, New York: Oxford University Press.

T. R. Durham, Judy Morgan, Barbara Larcom and Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1981. "Control of the work process: the workers' viewpoint," International

Journal of Health

Services 11, 1:207-220.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Aaron Pallas and Jeffrey Kentor. 1982. "Old and new research designs for studying the world-system," Comparative Political Studies

15, 3:341-356 (October).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Joan Sokolovsky. 1983. "Interstate systems, world-empires and the capitalist world-economy," International Studies Quarterly 27, 3.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1985. "The coming of urban primacy in Latin America," Comparative Urban Research XI, 1-2: 14-31.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1988. "Comparing world-systems: Toward a theory of semiperipheral development," Comparative Civilizations Review, 19:29-66, Fall.

Christopher Chase-Dunn. 1990 "World state formation: historical processes and emergent necessity"Political Geography Quarterly, 9,2: 108-30 (April).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1993 "Comparing world-systems: concepts and working hypotheses." Social Forces 71,4 (June).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, 1994 "The historical evolution of world-systems" Sociological Inquiry 64,3:257-280 (August).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Bruce Podobnik, "The next world war: world-system cycles and trends,"Journal of World-Systems Research 1:6, 1995.

Spanish translation in John Saxe-Fernandez (Coordinator) Globalizacion: Critica de unparadigma. Mexico, D.F.: Instituto de InvestigacionesEconomicas,

UNAM, 1997.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, 1998 "World-Systems in North America: Networks, Rise and Fall and Pulsations of Trade in Stateless Systems,"

American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22,1:23-72.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall 1998 "Ecological degradation and the evolution of world-systems"Journal of World-Systems Research 3: 403 - 431.

Christopher Chase-Dunn 1999 "Guatemala in the Global System" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs

Christopher Chase-Dunn, "Globalization: a world-systems perspective," Journal of World-Systems Research 5,2, 1999. Reprinted in Gerhard Preyer and

Mathias Bos (eds.) Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspective in a Sociology of the World-System.Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer 2000 "Trade Globalization since 1795: waves of integration in the world-system,"

American Sociological Review 65:77-95 (February).Scientific American article:IROWS Director Christopher Chase-Dunn’s research on long

waves of trade globalization (with Yukio Kawano and Benjamin Brewer), originally published in the American Sociological Review (February, 2000) was summarized in Scientific AmericanJune 2003. See

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Susan Manning and Thomas D. Hall, 2000 "Rise and Fall: East-West Synchronicity and Indic Exceptionalism Reexamined"

Social Science History 24,4: 721-48(Winter) .

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2002 "Globalization from below: toward a collectively rational and democratic global commonwealth"

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Volume 581: 48-61 (May).

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Susan Manning, 2002 "City systems and world-systems: four millennia of city growth and decline,"

Cross-Cultural Research 36, 4: 379-398 (November).Reprinted inRonan Paddison 2009 Urban Studies Economy ISBN: 978-1-84787-258-6

(September) SAGE Publications

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew K. Jorgenson, “Regions and Interaction Networks: an institutional materialist perspective,”

2003 International Journal of Comparative Sociology 44,1:433-450.

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew K. Jorgenson, “Interaction Networks and Structural Globalization: A Comparative World-Systems Perspective “

2003 Society in Transition 34,2:206-220.

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas Reifer, Andrew Jorgenson and ShoonLio 2005 "The U.S. Trajectory: A Quantitative Reflection,

Sociological Perspectives 48,2: 233-254

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2005 “Social evolution and the future of world society” Journal of World-Systems Research 11,2: 171-192

Special Issue: Globalizations from ‘Above’ and ‘Below’: The Future of World Society Edited by: Mark Herkenrath, Claudia König,

Hanno Scholtz, & Thomas Volken (e-journal, author holds copyright)

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2007 “Sociocultural evolution and the future of world society” World Futures 63,5-6:408-424.

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)

Ellen Reese, Christopher Chase-Dunn, KadambariAnantram, Gary Coyne, Matheu Kaneshiro, Ashley N. Koda, Roy Kwon and PreetaSaxena 2008

“Research Note: Surveys of World Social Forum participants show influence of place and base in the global public sphere” Mobilization: An International Journal.

13,4:431-445. Revised version in A Handbook of the World Social Forums Editors: Jackie Smith, Scott Byrd, Ellen Reeseand Elizabeth Smythe. Paradigm Publishers

Christopher Chase-Dunn 2010 “Evolution of Nested Networks in the Prehistoric U.S. Southwest: A Comparative World-Systems Approach”.

Evolution: An Interdisciplinary Almanac.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Thomas D. Hall, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez, Hiroko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, and Anders Carlson. 2010.

“Middlemen and Marcher States in Central Asia and East/West Empire Synchrony.”Social Evolution and History 9:1(March):1-29.

Christopher Chase-Dunn “Globalization from Below: toward a collectively rational and democratic global commonwealth”

Journal of Globalization Studies 1,1: 46-57 (May)(revised version of an article published in Annals of the American Academy of Science, 2002)

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).

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).

Thomas D. Hall, P. Nick Kardulias and Christopher Chase-Dunn 2011 “World-Systems Analysis and Archaeology: Continuing the Dialogue”

Journal of Archaeological Research19, 3: 233-279

Fletcher, Jesse B; Apkarian, Jacob; Hanneman, Robert A; Inoue, Hiroko; Lawrence, Kirk; Chase-Dunn, Christopher.2011

”Demographic Regulators in Small-Scale World-Systems” Structure and Dynamics 5, 1

Fletcher, Jesse B, Apkarian, Jacob, Roberts, Anthony, Lawrence, Kirk, Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Hanneman, Robert A,

‘War Games: Simulating Collins’ Theory of Battle Victory’ 2012Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History

2,2: 252-275.

Chase-Dunn, Christopher and Hiroko Inoue 2012 “Accelerating democratic global state formation” Cooperation and Conflict

47(2) 157–175.

Inoue, Hiroko, Alexis Álvarez, Kirk Lawrence, Anthony Roberts, Eugene N Anderson and Christopher Chase-Dunn 2012

“Polity scale shifts in world-systems since the Bronze Age: A comparative inventory of upsweeps and collapses” International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Chase-Dunn, C. and Anthony Roberts 2012 “The structural crisis of global capitalism and the prospects for world revolution in the 21st century”

International Review of Modern Sociology 38,2: 259-286 (Autumn) (Special Issue on The Global Capitalist Crisis and its Aftermath edited by BerchBerberoglu)

Chase-Dunn, C. and Bruce Lerro 2013 “Democratizing Global Governance: World historical Perspectives” Sociologias(in Portuguese)