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Christopher Chase-Dunn

Distinguished Professor of Sociology;
Director, Institute for Research on World-Systems

Mailing Address:

Sociology
College Building South /116
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Phone: (951) 827 2062
Fax: (951) 827-3330
Email: chriscd@ucr.edu
Website

Degree(s):

PhD 1975 Stanford University
MA 1968 Stanford University
BA 1966 UC-Berkeley

College/Division Affiliation:

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Center/Inst Affiliation(s):

Institute for Research on World Systems
Biotechnology Impacts Center

Areas Of Expertise:

Globalization; Political Economy; Geopolitics; Technology and Society; Evolution

Awards / Honors:

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

Research Summary:

A study of waves of international economic, political and cultural integration (globalization) of the modern world-system over the past 200 years.

The rise, fall and upward sweeps of cities and polities since the Bronze Age and future trajectories of global state formation

Biotechnology as a new lead industry in the global political economy

World cities and suburbanization

Global Elite Integration Since 1840

The evolution of global governance, global state formation and global democracy

Selected Publications:

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