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Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Sociology, Yale University, 1990; B.A. in History, Yale University, 1980.

Research Interests: State formation, global political economy, and Latin American politics, with a focus on neoliberalism and globalization.

Appointments: Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University; Professor of Sociology and International Affairs; Vice-Dean, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Publications: Author of Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America (Penn State University Press, 2002) and Global Capitalism: A Sociological Perspective (Polity Press, 2010).

Additional Contributions: Founder of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; frequent contributor to public policy debates on globalization.