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1221 WATKINS HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Chase-Dunn, Christopher

Distinguished Professor, Sociology/Director, Honors Program
Director, Institute for Research on World Systems

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Sociology


Institute for Research on World Systems


Biography

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He is organizing an institute for Research on World-Systems. Chase-Dunn has done crossnational quantitative studies on the effects of dependence on foreigh investment, and he studies cities and settlement systems as superorganisms. His recent research focuses on intersocietal systems, including both the modern global political economy and earlier regional world-systems. One project examines the causes of empire expansion and urban growth (and decline) in the Afroeurasian world-system over the last 4000 years. His study of economic and political globalization in the modern world-system over the past 200 years is supported by the National Science Foundation. Chase-Dunn is the founder and co-editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research 

Former Institution

Johns Hopkins University

Degrees

BA Psychology 1966

UC Berkeley

MA Sociology 1968

Stanford University

PhD Sociology 1975

Stanford University

Awards

Named 2001 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Distinguished Publication Award, Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association for Global Formation University Consortium for World Order Studies
James P. Warburg Research Fellow, 1973-74


Research Area

He studies intersocietal systems, including both the modern global political economy and earlier regional world-systems. He is currently doing research on the causes of empire expansion and urban growth (and decline) in the Afroeurasian world-system over the last 4000 years. And he is studying economic and political globalization in the modern world-system. His current research also consists of a study of international economic, political and cultural integration of the world-system over the past 200 years and a comparative study of stateless, state-based and modern world-systems.

Publications

Global Formation: Structures of The World-Economy New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989. American Sociology Association PEWS Distinguished Publication Award 1992. Revised Second edition published in 1998 by Rowman and Littlefield.

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.

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

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