Ravi Arvind Palat

Education 1981 - 1988 State University of New York Binghamton, NY

Ph. D (Sociology)

• Awarded with Distinction.

1978 - 1981 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

M. Phil History

1976 - 1978 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

M. A. History

1973- 1976 University of Madras Madras

B. A. Economics

Citizenship Indian

Permanent residency in New Zealand and the United States

Academic Posts 2009- 2011 State University of New York Binghamton, NY

Chair, Department of Sociology

2008 - present

Professor of Sociology

• Courses taught include World-systems Studies; Contemporary Capitalism;

Asia in World-Historical Perspective; Comparative Hegemonies; Political

Economy of Asia; Consuming Interests: Sociology of Food; Empire,

Hegemony, and Terror; Sociology of Colonialism; Sociology of

Contemporary Asia; Advanced Seminar on India and China; Social Change:

Introduction to Sociology; Binghamton and the World-Economy

2006 - 2008

Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology

2000 - 2008

Associate Professor of Sociology

2000 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology

• Fall Semester

1998 - 2000 University of Auckland New Zealand

Senior Lecturer in Sociology

• Courses taught include Sociology: Issues and Themes, Social Change and

Modernization, Sociology of Colonialism, Social Theory: Change and

Conflict, Sociology of Contemporary Asia, Asia and the Modern World-

System, Capitalism in the 20th Century

Department of Sociology

Binghamton University

Binghamton, NY 13902

Phone (607) 777-4756

Fax (607) 777-4197

E-mail palat@binghamton.edu

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1993 - 1997

Lecturer in Sociology

• Tenured 1996

1989 - 1993 University of Hawaii Honolulu, HI

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

• Courses taught include Asian Humanities, Contemporary Asian

Civilizations, Sociology of Directed Social Change, Sociology of

Development, Proseminar in Asian Studies, Asia and the Modern World-

System, Capitalism in 20th Century Asia

1984 - 1988 State University of New York Binghamton, NY

Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology

• Courses taught include Social Change in the Modern World, Workers and

Workers’ Movements in Eastern Europe, Political Sociology

Distinctions/Awards Visiting Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, Ruprechts-Karl Universität

Heidelberg, Germany, Feb-May 2013.

Co-Director, Workshop on Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and New Spatial

Imaginaries, Hong Kong, June 6-8, 2012 (Sponsored by the Social Science

Research Council, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and the Social

Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and the National University of

Singapore.

Visiting Senior Researcher. Barcelona Center for International Affairs,

Barcelona, Spain, 2012.

Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram

(February 2012).

Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (June 2010).

Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies

(CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia, 2007.

Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (May—

June 2001).

Association of Pacific Rim Universities’ (APRU) Fellowship, 1999.

Visiting Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu (December 1994—February 1995).

Work in Progress Resurgence of India and China in the World-Economy

Americas in the Making of World-Economies in Early Modern Asia

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Books Special Issue on “Migration and Borders of Citizenship,” Refugee Watch: A

South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 49, 2017 (guest editor with Shalini

Randeria).

The Making of an Indian Ocean World-System, 1250-1650: Princes, Paddy

fields, Bazaars New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim, London: Routledge, 2004

(paperback, 2013).

Special Issue on “Afghanistan, the United States, and Central Asia” Critical

Asian Studies, XXXV, 2, June 2003 (guest editor with Mark Selden).

Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System, Westport, CT: Greenwood

Press, 1993 (editor).

Articles “Empire, Food and the Diaspora: Indian Restaurants in Britain: South Asia: A

Journal of South Asian Studies, XXXVIII, 2, 2015, pp. 1-16.

“Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa: Beyond the ‘New Bandung’ or a ‘New

Colonialism’?” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, III, 1, 2014, pp.

125-50 (with William G. Martin)

“From Native to Citizen: Colonial Genealogies of Citizenship in Contemporary

EuroNorth America,” ‘Outiç! Journal of (post)European Philiosophy, IV, 2,

September 2013, pp. 293-312.

“Maps of Time, Clocks of Space: Changing Imaginaries of Asia,” Critical

Asian Studies, XLV, 3, September 2013, pp. 397-410.

“Geopolitics and New Spatial Imaginaries: An Introduction” Critical Asian

Studies, XLV, 3, September 2013, pp. 393-96 (with Caglar Keyder).

“Power Pursuits: Interstate Systems in Asia,” Asian Review of World History, I,

2, July 2013, pp. 227-63.

“Much Ado About Nothing: World-historical Implications of the Re-emergence

of China and India,” International Critical Thought, II, 2, May 2012, pp. 139-

55.

“Cultures of War (Round Two),” Roundtable on John W. Dower’s Cultures of

War, Critical Asian Studies, XLIII, 4, 2011, 621-622.

“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” Roundtable on John W.

Dower’s Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq, Critical Asian

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Studies, XLIII, 3, 2011, pp. 444-49

“Convergence Before Divergence? Eurocentrism and Alternate Patterns of

Historical Change,” Summerhill: Indian Institute of Advanced Study Review,

XVI, 1, Summer 2010, pp. 42-58.

“The World Turned Upside Down: The Rise of the Global South and the

Contemporary Global Financial Turbulence,” Third World Quarterly. XXXI, 3,

2010, pp. 365-84.

“Convenient Fictions, Inconvenient Truths: A Comment on Onis and Bayram,”

New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 39, 2008, pp, 85-95.

“A New Bandung? Economic Growth vs. Distributive Justice in the Emerging

Powers of the Global South,” Futures, XL. 8, September 2008, pp. 721-34.

“Faruk Tabak—A Tribute,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 38, 2008, pp. 9-

15.

Abridged version in History Workshop Journal, LXVII, 1, Spring

2009, pp. 299-302.

“India Suborned: The Global South and the Geopolitics of India’s Vote Against

Iran,” Japan Focus, 24 October, 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=427

“On New Rules for Destroying Old Countries,” Critical Asian Studies,

XXXVII, 1, March 2005, pp. 75-94.

“Flailing Eagle, Crouching Tigers: Decline of US Power and New Asian

Regionalism,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIX, 2, August 7, 2004, pp.

3620-3626.

Translated into Korean in Dangdae Bipyeong, 27, Fall 2004, pp. 355-

69

Translated into Hungarian in Esmelet. 63, August 2004, pp. 78-97.

“9/11, War Without Respite, and the New Face of Empire,” Critical Asian

Studies, XXXV, 2, June 2003, pp. 163-74 (with Mark Selden).

“‘Eyes Wide Shut’: Reconceptualizing the Asian Crisis,” Review of

International Political Economy, X, 2, May 2003, pp. 169-94.

“Is India Part of Asia?” Environment and Planning, D, Society and Space, XX,

6, November 2002, pp. 669-691.

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Translated into Hungarian, “Ázsia része-e India?” Esmélet, 60, 2004,

pp. 139-66.

“Barbarians at the Gate? Restructuring Asia’s Pacific Rim After the Crash of

1997-98,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVI, 48, December 1-7, 2001, pp.

4473-4484.

“Beyond Orientalism: Decolonizing Asian Studies,” Development and Society,

XXIX, 2, December 2000, pp. 105-36.

“Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing

World-Economy,” Development and Society, XXVIII, 1, June, 1999, pp. 1-47.

“Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional

Order,” Asian Perspectives, XXIII, 2, 1999, pp. 5-34.

“Up the Down Staircase: Australasia in the ‘Pacific Century’,” Thesis XI, no.

55, November 1998, pp. 15-40.

“Reinscribing the Globe: Imaginative Geographies of the Pacific Rim,” Bulletin

of Concerned Asian Scholars, XXIX, 1, January-March 1997, pp. 61-89.

“Pacific Century: Myth or Reality?” Theory & Society, XXV, 3, June 1996, pp.

303-47.

“Fragmented Visions: Excavating the Future of Area Studies in a Post-

American World,” Review, XIX. 3, Summer 1996, pp. 269-315.

Reprinted in Neil L. Waters (ed.), Beyond the Area Studies Wars:

Toward a New International Studies, Hanover, NH: University Press of

New England, 2000, pp. 64-106.

Reprinted in Michael Peters (ed.), After the Disciplines: The

Emergence of Cultural Studies, Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1999,

pp. 87-126.

Translated into Korean in Keongil Kim (ed.), Chiyokyonku-eui-

Yoksawairon, Seoul: Moonwhakwahksa, 1998, pp. 375-427.

“A Rejoinder [to Sanjay Subrahmaniam],” Review, XII, 1, Winter 1989, pp.

149-154.

“Popular Revolts and the State in Medieval South India: A Study of the

Vijayanagara Empire (1360-1565),” Bijdragen tot de taal-, Land-, en

Volkenkunde, CXII, 1986, pp. 128-44.

“The Incorporation and Peripheralization of South Asia, 1600-1950,” Review,

X, 1, Summer 1986, pp. 171-208 (with K. Barr, J. Matson, V. Bahl & N.

Ahmad).

Translated into Japanese, 2002.

“Control of Workers or Workers’ Control? Workers and Economic

Development in Poland, 1945-81,” Insurgent Sociologist, XII, 1-2, Spring 1984,

pp. 143-61 (with A. Chhachhi & P. Kurian).

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“Movement Towards Workers’ Democracy: Solidarity in Poland,” Economic

and Political Weekly, XVII, nos. 26, 27 and 28, June 26, July 3, and July 10,

1982, pp. 1073-1079, 1113-1118, 1164-1168 (with A. Chhachhi & P. Kurian).

Chapters in Books “Revisiting Bhattacharya’s Swaraj in Ideas,” in Peter deSouza (ed.), Swaraj in

Ideas, Routledge: New Delhi (forthcoming).

“Dependency Theory and World-Systems Analysis,” in Prasenjit Duara,

Andrew Sartori & Viren Murthy (eds.), A Companion to Global Historical

Thought, Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2014, pp. 369-83.

“Maritime Trade, Political Relations, and Residential Diplomacy in the World

of the Indian Ocean,” in Engseng Ho & Abdul Sheriff (eds.), Indian Ocean:

Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies, London: Hurst & Co,

2014, pp. 45-68.

“Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the longue durée, 1250-

1750,” in Richard Lee (ed.), The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis,

Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2012, pp. 171-200.

“Rise of the Global South and the Emerging Contours of a New World Order,”

in Boike Rehbein & Jan Nederveen Pieterse (eds), Globalization and Emerging

Societies: Development and Inequality, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 39-60.

“Un ritorno allo spirito di Bandung? L’ascesa degli stati nazionali nel Sud

globale,” in M. Petrusewicz, J. Schneider & P. Schneider (eds.), I Sud.

conoscere, capire, cambiare, Bologna: il Mulino, 2009, pp. 321-41.

“Japan: Signs of Empire, Empire of Signs,” in F. Tabak (ed.) Allies as Rivals?

U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System, Boulder, CO: Paradigm

Publishers, 2005, pp. 103-26.

“Of What World-System was pre-1500 ‘India’ a Part?” in S. Chaudhuri & M.

Morineau (eds.), Merchants, Companies, and Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1999, pp. 21-41 (with Immanuel Wallerstein).

“Terence Hopkins and the Decolonization of World-Historical Studies,” in I.

Wallerstein (ed.), Mentoring, Methods, and Movements: Colloquium in Honor

of Terence K. Hopkins by his former students, Binghamton, NY: Fernand

Braudel Center, 1998, pp. 39-46.

“Curries, Chopsticks, and Kiwis: Asian Migration to Aotearoa/New Zealand in

World-Historical Perspective,” in P. Spoonley, C. Macpherson & D. Pearson

(eds.), Nga Patai: Racism and Ethnicity in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Palmerston

North: Dunmore Press, 1996, pp. 35-54.

“Historical Transformations in Agrarian Systems Based on Wet-Rice

Cultivation: Towards an Alternate Model of Social Change, “ in P. McMichael

(ed.), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy, Westport, CT:

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Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 55-77.

“The Making and Unmaking of Pacific-Asia,” in R. A. Palat (ed.), Pacific-Asia

and the Future of the World-System, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993, pp.

3-20.

“Symbiotic Sisters: Bay of Bengal Ports in the Indian Ocean World-Economy,”

in R. Kasaba (ed.), Cities in the World-Economy, Westport, CT: Greenwood

Press, 1991, pp. 17-40.

“The Vijayanagara Empire: Reintegration of the Agrarian Order of Medieval

South India, 1336-1565,” in H. J. M. Claessen & P. van de Velde (eds.), Early

State Dynamics, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987, pp. 170-86.

Policy Briefings “A Fog or Myths about North Korea,” Notes internationals, Barcelona Centre

for International Affairs, Notes internacionales, no. 72, Barcelona Centre for

International Affairs, April 2013.

“Resurgence of China and India: “A Profound Transformation,” Notes

internacionales, no. 58, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, June 2012

“Indignados in Perspective? Is Social Democracy irrelevant in a Post-Industrial

Era in the West,” Notes internacionals, no. 53, Barcelona Centre for

International Affairs, May 2012.

Refereed Conference

Proceedings

“Labor-Intensive Industrialization in the Longue Durée,” XIIIth Economic

History Congress, Buenos Aires, 22-26 July 2002, CD-ROM, International

Economic History Association, 2002.

http://www.eh.net/XIIICongress/cd/papers/25Palat244.pdf

“Citizenship and Globalization,” in Gay Morgan & Paul Havemann (eds.), Re-

Visioning and Reclaiming Citizenship: 23-24 November 1998 Colloquium

Proceedings, Hamilton, New Zealand: Center for New Zealand Jurisprudence,

School of Law at the University of Waikato, 2001, pp. 73-77.

“Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional

Order,” International Conference on the Dynamics of Northeast Asia and the

Korean Peninsula, Seoul, Korea, May 27-28, 1999, pp.11-38.

Reviews and Essays Review of Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the

Arabian Sea by Johan Mathew, American Historical Review, CXXIII, 3, June

2018, pp. 1054-55.

Review of Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson, Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 2,

June 2013, pp. 323-30.

Review of From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia by

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Pankaj Mishra, Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 1, March 2013, 158-63.

Review of The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in

South India, c. 1350-1650 by Carla M. Sinopoli, Itinerario, XXIX, 3, 2005,

177-79.

Review of Circumambulations in South Asian History: Essays on Honour of

Dirk H. A. Kolff edited by Jos Gommans & Om Prakash, Itinerario, XXIX, 1,

2005, pp. 177-79.

Review of India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation by

George Perkovich, Metascience, XI, 3, November 2002, pp. 409-412.

Review of Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, Ed. by Elizabeth

J. Perry & Mark Selden, China Information, XV, 1, Spring 2001.

Review of The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global

Capital, by Arif Dirlik, Journal of World History, XI, 1, Spring 2000, pp. 159-

62.

“Segmented Worlds, Fragmented Knowledge: Asian Studies, International

Relations, and Cultural Identities after the Cold War,” The Asian Mode, #2,

March, 1998, pp. 6-8.

Review of East Asia and the World Economy by Alvin Y. So & Stephen W. K.

Chiu, Sociological Inquiry, LXVI, 4, 1996, pp. 517-519.

Review of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by E. J.

Hobsbawm, Journal of World History, VIII, 1, Spring 1996, pp. 179-81.

Review of Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems by

Eileen Green, Jenny Owens & Den Pain (eds.), Social Science Computer

Review, XIII, 1, Spring 1995, pp. 133-35.

Review of Fiji: Coups in Paradise—Race, Politics and Military Intervention, by

Victor Lal, South Asia in Review, XV, 4, August 1991, pp. 400-402.

Review of Political and Social Writings (vols. 1 & 2), by Cornelius Castoriadis,

Contemporary Sociology, XIX, 2, March 1990, pp. 400-402.

Review of Political Regimes, Public Policy, and Economic Development:

Agricultural Performance and Rural Change in the Two Punjabs by Holly

Sims, Journal of Asian Studies, XLIX, 1, February 1990, pp. 191-93.

Review of Peasant History in South India, by David Ludden, Journal of Asian

History, XXI, 2, 1987, pp. 196-197.

Review of Peasant and Artisan Resistance in Mughal India, by Irfan Habib,

Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, XIX, 1, 1987, pp. 70-71.

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Working Papers “Civil Society in Asian Contexts,” Association of Pacific Rim Universities

Working Paper, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at

Berkeley, 2001 (with Muhammad Fuad, Lily Zubaidah Rahim, and Mayfair

Yang).

“Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing

World-Economy,” Auckland Working Papers in Development Studies No. 1,

Auckland, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, 1999, 62

pages.

Instructional Material Syllabi for undergraduate course on the Sociology of Colonialism and the

graduate course on Comparative Hegemonies in Martha E. Giminez & Brian P.

Hawkins, Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, Washington, DC:

American Sociological Association, Fourth Edition, 2006, pp. 190-95.

Syllabi for undergraduate course on the Sociology of Colonialism and the

graduate course on Capitalism in the 20th Century in Martha E. Gimenez &

Brian V. Klocke (eds.), Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective,

Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 1998, pp. 168-83, 201-

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Reprinted: in Martha E. Gimenez & Brian V. Klocke (eds.), Teaching

Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, Washington, DC: American

Sociological Association, 2002.

Articles in Papers of

Public Opinion

“Tilting at Windmills,” The Hindu, 23 August 2018.

“Meddlesome and more,” The Hindu, 23 July 2018.

“Decoding Trump’s attack on Europe,” The Hindu, 18 July 2018.

“From low to zero tolerance,” The Hindu, 28 June 2018 (with Anne McCall).

“Moral Bankruptcy of Trump’s Muslim Ban,” Pipedream, February 2, 2017.

“Meditation on the Egyptian Bloodbath,” OpenDemocracy, 23 August 2013

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ravi-arvind-palat/meditation-on-egyptian-

bloodbath

“Egypt: Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” Letters, Economic and Political

Weekly, XLVIII, 32, 10 August, 2013, p. 5.

“Why European air-space was closed to the Bolivian President,”

OpenDemocracy, 15 July 2013 http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-

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make-it/ravi-arvind-palat/why-european-air-space-was-closed-to-bolivian-

president

“At Gezi Park, A Short Walk from Majority to Majoritarian,” The Hindu, 27

June 2013 (with Biray Kolluoglu).

“What Europe Can Learn from the World,” Interview for Strange

Mirrors/Unsuspected Lessons: Ideas for Europe,” May 2013,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yaOYS9qtNg

“The Indignados and the crisis in the Eurozone,” interviewed by Chuck Mertz

of Chicago’s WUNR FM Radio, 12 May 2012.

“La ‘innovación frugal’ es verdaderamente revolutionaria,” interview, El Nueva

Lunes, 30 April-6 May, 2012.

“Kennedy shows way forward for Bush,” South China Morning Post,

September 18, 2001.

Reproduced as a resource paper by the International Peace Bureau, see

http://www.ipb.org/US-terror/articles.htm/south_china_morning_post.htm

“India and the West,” The Hindu, December 4, 2000.

“Zimbabwe’s evictions show law, media bias,” New Zealand Herald, April 17,

2000.

“Corrupt, undemocratic Govt. deserved to go,” New Zealand Herald, October

15, 1999.

“A Furore Over Xena” (http://www.artemista.com/library/palat01.shtml,

http://www.xenamedia.com/articles/palat-17-04-99.htm,

http://www.aschweb.com/xenaeyes/xena-articles/art-furore.html). 1999.

“The concept of national security,’ The Hindu, February 6, 1999.

“Violence against Christians in India”

(http://www.tsoft.com/~cmwilson/Protest/Violence.html,

http://poky.interspeed.net/xac14.html). 1999.

“Indian Christians caught in tribal, political rows,” New Zealand Herald,

January 26, 1999.

“Iraq’s American Problem,” The Hindu, December 24, 1998.

“Hypocrisy alive, well in the West,” New Zealand Herald, December 16, 1998.

“The phenomenon of globalisation,’ The Hindu, December 14, 1998.

Reprinted in The Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka), 20 December, 1998.

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“Placing credit in power without accountability,” New Zealand Herald, October

1, 1998.

“Tragedy repeats itself (SE Asian crisis),” The Hindu, September 26, 1998.

“Crony capitalism mixed bag of good and bad,” New Zealand Herald,

September 8, 1998.

“Varieties of ‘crony capitalists’,” The Hindu, August 22, 1998.

“Maverick missile attacks won’t stop the cycle of world violence,” New

Zealand Herald, August 26, 1998.

“How Asian tests reveal ‘nuclear apartheid,’” The Press, June 3. 1998.

“Nation state and national cultures lose their flavour in the globaloney,” The

Independent, June 3, 1998.

“Now India must be taken seriously,” New Zealand Herald, May 14, 1998.

“Universities and the real world,” New Zealand Education Review, January 28,

1998.

“A lost decade for Asia?”, The Hindu, December 12, 1997.

“Asians victims of global economy,” New Zealand Herald, December 8, 1997.

“Setting universities for the 21st century,” New Zealand Herald, October 15,

1996.

“Why we should employ the American way,” New Zealand Education Review,

September 27, 1996.

“As Asian cash comes in Kiwi cash flies out,” New Zealand Herald, April 11,

1996.

Reproduced in Resource Paper for New Zealand-Asia Policy

Consultation on Human Rights, Sovereignty and Migration, New

Zealand Asia Institute, June 14-16, 1996.

“Asia-Pacific region in the changing world-economy,” Pacific Issues, 18,

September, 1994.

Editorial Boards, etc. Member, Editorial Board, Review, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton

University, 2002-10.

Member, Editorial Board, Critical Asian Studies, 2002-.

Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the book series, Pacific Formations:

Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield

Publishers.

Member, International Advisory Board for the journal Development and

Society.

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Research Grants Asian Migrations conference grant, State University of New York

Conversations in the Disciplines, 2005-06 (collaborator).

Individual Development Award, United University Professions, 2001.

Staff Research Grant, Auckland University Research Council, 1995, 1996,

1997.

Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research Relations, University of Hawaii at

Manoa, 1989.

South West Asia and North Africa Program Fellowship, State University of

New York at Binghamton, 1984.

State University of New York Research Foundation Special Projects Fund

Award. 1983.

Graduate Assistantship, Department of Sociology, State University of New

York at Binghamton, 1981-84.

University Grants Commission (India) Senior Research Fellowship, 1980-1981.

University Grants Commission (India) Junior Research Fellowship, 1978-1980.

Seminar

Presentations

“A Brave New World: Does the Economic Emergence of China and India

Signal and New World Order,” AND “Democracy and Affirmative Action in

India: Promises and Contradictions,” Institute of Political Science, Universidade

de Brasilia, Brazil, 13 October, 2016.

“Maps of Time, Clocks of Space: Changing Imaginaries of Asia,” South Asia

Institute, Ruprechts Karl Universität Heidelberg, Germany, May 7, 2013 AND

at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal, May 10,

2013.

“Empire, Food, and the Diaspora: Indian Food in Britain,” Centre for the Study

of the Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, 14 February, 2013.

“Rise of China and India: What it signifies for the world-economy,” Sponsored

by CASA Asia and the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Barcelona,

17 May, 2012.

“Towards an Agenda for Economic History,” Centre for Development Studies,

Thiruvananthapuram, 9 February 2012.

“Convergence Before Divergence? Eurocentrism and Alternate Patterns of

Historical Change,” Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 29 June 2010.

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“Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crises in World-Historical Perspective,” Indian

Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 5 June 2010.

“The Dragon and the Elephant: Emergence of India and China in the World-

Economy: India and China,” CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong,

Australia, 23 May, 2007.

“Tandoori in Hot Garlic Sauce? Impact of the Rise of China and India on the

World-Economy,” Department of Politics and Social Change, Research School

of Asian and Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra,

Australia, 14 May, 2007.

“Asian Behemoths: Re-emergence of China and India,” Discipline of

Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Australia, 10

May, 2007.

“Rise of China and India in the Contemporary World-Economy,” Development

Studies, University of Auckland, 5 April 2007.

“A New Bandung? Reconfiguring the World Order in the Twenty-First

Century,” School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, Albany,

New Zealand, 4 April 2007.

“Is India an Asian Country?” Center for Critical Theory and Transnational

Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 7 March 2003.

“Rethinking Eurocentric Spatial Imaginaries: India as a Case Study”

Department of Sociology seminar, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 31,

October, 2002.

“Geopolitical Context of Nuclear Rivalry in South Asia,” Seminar on Conflict

Management, Peace Economics, and Peace Science,” Binghamton University,

Binghamton, NY, 18 October, 2001.

“Is India Part of Asia?’ Department of Asian Languages and Literature seminar,

University of Auckland, New Zealand, 15 March, 2000.

“Farming of Bones: Roots of Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Contemporary

World,” Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical

Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 22

November, 1999.

“Global Roots of Local Politics,” Department of Sociology seminar, University

of Auckland, New Zealand, 29 September, 1999.

“Miracles of the Day Before: The Great Asian Meltdown of 1997-98 and the

Changing World-Economy,” Seminar series on the Economic, Political, and

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Social Implications of the East Asian Financial Crisis, the Hong Kong

University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 10 February, 1999.

“Beyond Orientalism: Decolonising the Social Sciences,” Annual Winter

Seminar Series, Cultural and Policy Studies in Education, University of

Auckland, New Zealand, 14 August, 1998.

“The Buddha Would Not Have Smiled,” Nuclear Crisis in South Asia Seminar,

New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 23 July,

1998.

“Globalization or Globaloney,” Department of Sociology seminar, University of

Auckland, New Zealand, 9 April, 1997.

“The Pacific Century: Myth or Reality?” Department of Sociology, University

of Hawaii, Honolulu, January 31, 1995.

“Reapproaching Asian History” Department of History, University of Hawaii,

Honolulu, January 25, 1995.

“Decolonizing the Disciplines: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Categories of

Analysis,” Department of Sociology Seminar, University of Auckland, New

Zealand, June 7, 1994.

“Pacific Century: Myth or Reality?” Development Forum, University of

Auckland, New Zealand, March 21, 1994.

“Transnationalization of Capital and the Paradox of Democracy: Free Markets,

Decline of States, and Ethnic Conflicts,” Department of Political Science

colloquium, University of Hawaii, March 1, 1993.

“The Myth of an Impending Pacific Century,” Department of Sociology

seminar, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, November 23, 1992.

“Historical Context of Nineteenth Century Revolutions in Asia: Towards a

Sociology of Money-Use,” Department of Sociology Colloquium, Department

of Sociology, University of Hawaii, October 31, 1991.

“White-Washing Colonialism: A Critique of Recent Interpretations of

Eighteenth Century Indian History,” Center for South Asian Studies

Colloquium, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 23 September, 1991.

Conference Papers “Duplicities: The False Promises of Area Studies,” Conference on “The

Radicalization of Possibility: In Remebrance of Arif Dirlik,” Duke University,

Raleigh, NC, November 30-1 December, 2018.

“Parallax Histories: The Americas in the Making of Early Modern World-

Economies in Asia,” Xth Brazilian Colloquium on the Political Economy of the

World-System, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil,

10-11 October, 2016.

“Political Theory from the South: An Essay on India’s Democracy and Its

Contribution to Political Theory,” Eighteenth International Conference on “New

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Political Science,” University of Havana and Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana,

Cuba, 17-20 November, 2015.

“Asia in Africa: Reframing Area Studies for the 21st Century,” Africa-Asia: A

New Axis of Knowledge Conference, University of Ghana at Legon, Accra,

Ghana, 24-26 September, 2015.

“Latin America in the Making of Early Modern World-Economies in Asia,”

XXIII Annual World History Association Conference, San Jose, Costa Rica, 16-

18 July, 2014.

“Port-Cities as Pirate Havens in the Western Indian Ocean,” World History

Association Symposium on ‘Port-Cities in World History,’ Universitat Pompeu

Fabra, Barcelona, 26-28 March 2014.

“Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa: Towards a New Transcontinental

Agricultural Model?” Eighth International Convention of Asian Scholars,

Macau, China, June 24-27, 2013 (with William G. Martin).

“Underdevelopment Theory and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,” 40

Years On, 40 Years Forward: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Binghamton

University, Binghamton, NY 14-15 September, 2012 (with William G. Martin).

“Parallels Between Systems: Alternate Patterns of State Formation,” Workshop

on Empires and Networks: The Dynamics in Historical Asia,” Osaka

University, Osaka, Japan, October 23, 2011.

“Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crises in Historical Perspective,” Conference

on Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation, Prague, Czech

Republic. October 16-18, 2011.

“Divergence Before Convergence? Rethinking Patterns of Historical Change,”

XXth Annual Conference of the World History Association, Beijing, China,

July 7-11, 2011.

“Much Ado About Nothing” World-Historical Implications of the Re-

Emergence of China and India,” Xth Conference on International Relations,

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 15-17, 2011 (Keynote

speaker).

“Back to the Future: A World-Historical Perspective on India’s Essay in

Democracy,” Conference on ‘Challenges to Democracy in South Asia,’ India

International Centre, New Delhi, 15-16 January, 2011.

“Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crises in Historical Perspective,” XVIIth ISA

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World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July 2010.

“Things Fall Apart: Financial Crises over the Longue Durée,” Conference on

‘After the Gold Rush: Economic Crises and Consequences,” University of

Iceland, Reykjavik, 27-28 May, 2010.

“World Turned Upside Down: Rise of the Global South and the Contemporary

Global Financial Turmoil,” Brazilian International Studies Association—

International Studies Association Joint Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21-24

July, 2009.

“Historical Context of Anti-Systemic Movements in Continental Asia: Changes

in Monetary Flows and Production Processes, 1815-1873,” History from a

Global Perspective, Conference in Honor of Faruk Tabak, Bilgi University,

Istanbul, Turkey, March 6-8, 2009 (with Faruk Tabak).

“Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the longue durée 1250-

1700,” Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Fernand

Braudel’s “History and the Social Sciences,” Fernand Braudel Center for the

Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton

University, 24-25 October, 2008.

"Maritime Trade, Political Relations, and Residential Diplomacy in the World

of the Indian Ocean,” Conference on “The Indian Ocean: The Largest Cultural

Continuum in the World,” Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute, Stone

Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 15-17 August, 2008.

“Dangerous Liaisons: Hegemonic Transitions and Asian Regionalism,” Vth

European Southeast Asian Studies Association Conference, Unìversìtà degli

Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Naples, Italy, 12-14 Sept 2007.

“A New Bandung: Reconfiguring the World Order in the Twenty-First

Century,” XVIth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-

29 July 2006.

“Issues raised in Forces of Labor from the Perspective of Contemporary

Developments in India,” XVIth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South

Africa, 23-29 July 2006.

“A New Bandung: Economic Growth vs. Distributive Justice Among Emerging

Powers in the Global South,” Workshop on “Come studiare I Sud?” Workshop,

Camigliati, Italy, 25-30 June, 2006.

“Imperial Expansion in an Eastern Mirror: State-making and Territorial

Expansion in Asia, 1000-1700,” Workshop on Historical Expansions: The

Historical Processes of Polity Expansion in Asia, Asia Research Institute,

National University of Singapore, 12-13 May, 2006.

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“Towards a Framework for the Social History of Asia: Socio-Historical

Trajectories of Societies Based on Wet-Rice Cultivation,” Conference on

‘Writing Social Histories: Asian Historiographies and Political Regimes,’

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, December 16-17, 2005.

“Displacing Hegemony: Asia in the Decline of US Power,” 100th Annual

Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 13-16

August, 2005.

“East Africa in the Making of the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” XIVth

Annual World History Association Conference, Al Akhawayn University,

Ifrane, Morocco, June 27-29, 2005.

“Empire and Market: American Drive to Imperialism and Asian Regionalism,”

International conference on ‘Development and Regionalism: Karl Polanyi’s

Ideas and Contemporary World System Transformation,’ Hungarian Academy

of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 5-6 November, 2004.

“Area Studies, Requiescat in Pace,” Conference on ‘The Question of Asia in the

New Global Order,’ Duke University, Durham, NC, 1-2 October 2004.

“Making Peripheral Working Classes: China and India Compared,” XCVIIIth

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, 16-19

August 2003 (with Kaan Agartan).

“Japan: Signs of Empire, Empire of Signs,” XXVIIth Annual Conference of the

Political Economy of World-Systems, Georgetown University, Washington,

DC, 25-26 April 2003.

“Diplomacies of Coercion: Logic of Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia After the

US War With Afghanistan,” International Conference on Conflict Management,

Peace Economics, and Development, Krakow University of Economics,

Krakow, Poland, 18-20 October 2002.

“Labor-Intensive Industrialization in the Longue Durée,” XIIIth International

Economic History Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22-26 July, 2002.

“Labor-Intensive Industrialization in the Longue Durée,” Workshop on Labour-

Intensive Industrialization in Global History: Asian Experiences and

Comparative Perspectives, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, 18-19 December,

2001.

“Reorienting Globalization: Dialectics of Social Change Along the Pacific

Rim,” International Studies Association Convention, Hong Kong, July 26-28,

2001.

“The Buddha Would Not Have Smiled: Geopoliticial Context of the South

Asian Nuclear Tests,” Workshop on ‘Asia and the U.S. at War: The Twentieth

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Century Experience,’ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June

27-28, 2001.

“Paradise Postponed? Restructuring the Economic Landscape Along Asia’s

Pacific Rim,” XCVth Annual Meeting of the American Sociological

Association, Washington, DC, August 12-16, 2000.

“Is India a Part of Asia?” Conference on ‘Approaching Asia from Asia:

Journeys, Displacements, Themes’ sponsored by the Asian Studies Association

of Australia and the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Delhi at Sariska,

India, February 20-21, 2000.

“Unthinking the Pacific Century,” Pacific Rim in the 21st Century: The Next

Generation Conference sponsored by the Asian Studies Institute of Victoria

University of Wellington and the New Zealand Asia Institute, University of

Auckland, New Zealand, August 27-31, 1999.

“Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional

Order,” Conference on “The Dynamics of Northeast Asia and the Korean

Peninsula,” the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, Seoul,

South Korea, May 27-28, 1999.

“Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing

World-economy,” IIIrd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Sociology, Cheju

National University, South Korea, 4-6 February, 1999.

“Citizenship and Globalization,” Conference on Re-Visioning Citizenship,

Center for New Zealand Jurisprudence, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New

Zealand, 23-24 November, 1998.

“Beyond Orientalism: Decolonizing Asian Studies,” First International

Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 25-28 June,

1998.

“Rethinking Incorporation: Agency and Process,” PEWS Roundtable, 92nd

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada,

9-13 August 1997.

“Terence Hopkins and the Decolonization of World-Historical Studies,”

Conference on “Mentoring, Methods and Movements: A Colloquium in Honor

of Terence K. Hopkins,” New York, 15 August, 1996.

“Decolonizing Theory: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Categories of Analysis,”

XXth Annual Conference of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University

of Hawaii, Honolulu, 6-9 December, 1995.

“Global Restructuring and New Asian Migration to Aotearoa/New Zealand,”

Sociological Association of Aotearoa (New Zealand) Annual Conference,

Akaroa, New Zealand, 1-3 December, 1995.

“Global Roots of Local Violence: Ethnic and Communal Conflict in India in

World-Historical Context,” New Zealand Asia 2000 Conference on Religion

and Politics in India, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, 31 August-3

September, 1995.

“Transnationalization of Capital and the Paradox of Democracy: Free Markets,

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Decline of States, and Ethnic Conflicts,” Conference on “The State in

Transition: Reimagining the Local, the National, and the Global,” La Trobe

University, Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 August, 1993.

“Area Studies in a Post-American World,” First Workshop on Critical

Alternatives in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 22-23

May, 1993.

“Historical Transformations in Agrarian Systems Based on Wet-Rice

Cultivation: Towards an Alternate Model of Social Change,” XVIIth Annual

Conference of the Political Economy of the World-Systems, Cornell University,

Ithaca, NY, 15-17 April, 1993.

“Building Castles on Crumbling Foundations: Excavating the Future of Area

Studies in a Post-American World,” Keynote Address, Fifth Annual Graduate

student Conference, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University

of Hawaii, 19 February, 1993.

“Of What World-System Was Pre-1500 ‘India’ a Part?” International

Colloquium on ‘Merchants, Companies and Trade⎯The Asian and European

Scene in the Indian Context, 16th to 18th Century,’ Maison des Sciences de

l'Homme, Paris, France, 30 May-2 June, 1991 (with Immanuel Wallerstein).

“Port-Cities in the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” XIVth Annual Conference

of the Political Economy of the World-System, University of Washington,

Seattle, 29-31 March, 1991.

“Construction of Extra-Class Identities in the Capitalist World-Economy,”

Keynote Address, VIth Annual Symposium of the Center for South Asian

Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 6-8 March, 1989.

“Structures of Class Control in Late Medieval South Asia: The Construction of

an Interstate System, 1300-1600,” XXXIXth Annual Meeting of the Association

for Asian Studies, Boston, 10-12 April, 1987.

“South Asia in the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” 101st Annual Meeting of

the American Historical Association, Chicago, 27-30 December, 1986.

“From World-Empire to World-Economy: Changing Forms of Territorial

Integration and Political Dominion in South India, 800-1600,” Conference on

South Asia and World Capitalism, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 12-14

December, 1986.

“Anti-Systemic Movements in the Periphery: Changing Contours of Class in

Asian Empires, 1815-1873,” Xth Annual Conference on the Political Economy

of the World-System, San Francisco State University, 2-3 March, 1986 (with

Faruk Tabak).

“The Incorporation and Peripheralization of South Asia, 1600-1950,” XIVth

Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1-3

November, 1985 (with K. Barr, J. Matson, V. Bahl and N. Ahmad).

“Popular Revolts and the State in Medieval South India: A Study of the

Vijayanagara Empire (1360-1565),” XIIIth Annual Conference on South Asia,

University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2-4 November, 1984.

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“The Vijayanagara State in Medieval South India, 1336-1565,” Conference on

the Early State and After, XIth International Congress of the Anthropological

and Ethnological Sciences, Montréal, Canada, 17-19 August, 1983.

Professional Activities Pre-publication referee for American Journal of Sociology, Theory & Society,

Asian Perspectives, Critical Asian Studies, Contemporary Pacific, Development

& Change, Development & Society, Globalizations, Journal of Contemporary

Asia, Journal of World History, Journal of International Relations and

Development, Pacific History Review, positions: east asian cultures critique,

Research in Political Economy, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies,

Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science and World Development.

Pre-publication manuscript review for Routledge. SUNY Press

Chair, panel on ‘Beyond South Asia,’ conference on “Border,Violence, and

Challenge to Identities,” Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies,

Kolkata, India, Dec 20-23, 2016.

Co-Organizer, Conference on Migrations and Citizenship(s), Indian Institute of

Advanced Study, Shimla, May 30-June 1, 2016 (with Ranabir Sammadar)

Grant review for National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities

Research Council of Canada; Danish Council for Independent Research (Social

Sciences).

Commentator, “Fifteen Years after ‘The Great Divergence’: Which Way to

go?,” by Eric Vanhaute, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard

University, Cambridge, MA, 10 November, 2014.

Panelist, Section on the Political Economy of the World-System Invited

Session: Sociological Knowledge and Inequality in World-Historic Perspective:

Reflections at the 40th Anniversary of Wallerstein’s Modern World-System (vol.

I0 and the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of World-Systems Research, CIXth

Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 15-

19 August 2014.

Guest Editor (with Caglar Keyder), Special Feature on “Geopolitics and New

Spatial Imaginaries,” Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 3, September 2013.

Panel Organizer, “The New Bandung Turned Upside Down,” Eighth

International Convention of Asian Scholars, Macau, China 24-27 June 2013.

Affiliated Scholar, South Asia Institute, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg,

Germany, Spring 2013.

Panelist, Quelle chance pour les nouvelles révolutions? Quels enjeux les

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nouveaux sujects politiqes?, Workshop on La copie du monde à revoir.

Démocratiser la démocratie est-il illusoire?, Université Paris-Est Créteil and

Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Délégation en France, Paris, France, 18-19

October 2012.

Dynamics of global crisis, antisystemic movements, and new models of

hegemony," Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 28

May, 2009.

Panelist, “The Financial and Military Underpinnings of Global Power

Relationships,” International Conference on the Systemic Crisis of Capitalism:

Dynamics of global crisis, antisystemic movements, and new models of

hegemony," Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 26

May, 2009.

Discussant, Conference on Black Liberation and the Spirit of ’57, Fernand

Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 2-3 November 2007.

Discussant, Conference on Labor Unions and Democracy in a Globalizing Asia,

Sociology Department, Binghamton University, 5-6 October 2007.

Organizer (with Pietro Masina), Panel on “Political Economy of New

Regionalism in East Asia,” Vth European Southeast Asian Studies Association

Conference, Unìversìtà degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Naples, Italy, 12-14

Sept 2007.

Panelist, “War, Crisis of Hegemony, and Unequal Development,” Workshop on

Globalization and Unequal Development: The Political Challenge of Subaltern

Movements,” Universidad Nómada & Laboratorio de Creación de Nuevas

Máquinas Políticas Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 27 June 2007.

Panelist, “Globalization’s Regional Perspectives—Asia,” Workshop on

Globalization and Unequal Development: The Political Challenge of Subaltern

Movements,” Universidad Nómada & Laboratorio de Creación de Nuevas

Máquinas Políticas Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 26 June 2007.

Panelist, “Development Strategies Before and After the Washington Consensus

II,” Workshop on Globalization and Unequal Development: The Political

Challenge of Subaltern Movements,” Universidad Nómada & Laboratorio de

Creación de Nuevas Máquinas Políticas Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 25

June 2007.

Chair, Plenary Panel on “Migration and Political Activism in New York,”

Conference on Asian Migrations, State University of New York at Binghamton,

Binghamton, NY, 24-25 March, 2006.

Member, Organizing Committee, Conference on Asian Migrations, State

University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY.

Discussant, Panel on “Historiographies of Labour and Subaltern Groups (II),”

Conference on Writing Social Histories: Asian Historiographies and Political

Regimes, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 16-17 December,

2005.

Organizer, Harpur College Dean’s Workshop series on The New Bandung,

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Binghamton University, 2005-06

Chair, Panel on Mediterranean Exchanges, XIVth Annual Conference of the

World History Association, Ifrane, Morocco, 27-29 June, 2005.

Roundtable on ‘Trends in World Poverty and Inequality: Is the World Moving

in the Right Direction?’ 100th Annual Meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Chicago, 2-5 September, 2004.

Organizer, Harpur College Dean’s Workshop series on Globalization and the

Refiguring of Urban Space, Binghamton University, 2002-2003.

Coordinator, China-India Research Working Group, Fernand Braudel Center,

Binghamton University, 2001-04.

Organizer, Harpur College Dean’s Workshop series on Segmented Worlds,

Fragmented Knowledge, Binghamton University, 2001-2002.

Roundtable on “International Terrorism: Asian Responses,” State University

College, Cortland, November 12, 2001.

Organizer, Panel on “Asian Studies in an Age of Globalization,” First

International Convention of Asian Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands,

26-28 June, 1998.

Participant, Political Economy of the World-System Roundtable, 92nd Annual

Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 9-13

August, 1997.

Discussant, Panel on “Globalization: Myths and Realities,” 91st Annual

Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 16-20,

1996.

Discussant, Panel on “History and Cultural Criticism,” Symposium on

Multiculturalism and Representation, College of Language, Literature, and

Linguistics, University of Hawaii, April 27—May 3, 1994.

Discussant, XIIth International Colloquium on the World-Economy, Tokyo and

Nagoya, Japan, December 10-14, 1993.

Discussant, Comparative Hegemonies Workshop, Fernand Braudel Center,

Binghamton University, April 18-19, 1993.

Coordinator, XVth Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-

System, University of Hawaii, March 28-30, 1991.

Joint Coordinator, Research Working Group on India and China since 1947/49,

Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987-

1988.

Organizer, Panel on the Pre-Colonial State in South Asian History, XXXIXth

Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, April 10-12,

1987.

Discussant, Panel on Alternative Approaches to Teaching about South Asia in

Secondary Schools, 101st Annual Meeting of the American Historical

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Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 1986.

Organizer, Panel on South Asia in a World-Historical Perspective, 101st Annual

Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, December 27-30,

1986.

Co-Organizer, Conference on South Asia and World Capitalism, Tufts

University, Medford, MA, December 12-14, 1986.

Organizer, Panels on South Asia and the World-System, XIVth Annual

Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, November 1-3,

1985.

Coordinator, Research Working Group on South Asia, Fernand Braudel Center,

1984-1988.

University Service State University of New York at Binghamton

Chair, Sociology Department, Assistant Professor Search Committee, 2012,

2016.

Member, Sociology Department Assistant Professor Search Committee, 2010-

16.

Member, Sociology Department Visiting Professor Search Committee, 2010.

Member, Budget Review Committee of the Faculty Senate Executive, 2009-11.

Member, Sociology Department Senior Personnel Committee, 2008-.

Member, Faculty Senate, 2008-11.

Graduate Cabinet, Graduate School, 2006 -2008.

Harpur College Undergraduate Awards Committee, 2001- 2003.

Harpur College Council, 2001

Member, Sociology Department Initiating Personnel Committee, 2004-.

Member, Initiating Personnel Committee, Asian and Asian-American Studies

Program, 2004-06.

Member, Asian and Asian-American Studies Visiting Professor Search

Committee, 2001-02, 2004-06.

Member, Asian and Asian-American Studies Program and History Department

Joint Search Committee, 2003-2004.

Member, Asian and Asian-American Studies Program Committee, 2001-06.

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 2001-2003, 2005-11.

Member, Search Committee, Department of Sociology, 2000-2001, 2005-06.

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Senior Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, 2000-2010.

University of Auckland

Member, Coordinating Committee, MA in Development Studies, Institute of

Development Studies, 1994-2000.

Equity Coordinator, Department of Sociology, 1999-2000.

Member, Arts Faculty Promotions Advisory Committee, 1998.

Member, Search Committee for Second Chair in Sociology, 1997.

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 1994-1997.

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, 1994-1995.

University of Hawaii

Member, Working Committee to establish an MA in International Studies,

School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, 1990-91.

Member, Executive Committee, Center for South Asian Studies, School of

Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, 1989-1992.

Member, Curriculum Committee, Asian Studies Program, 1989-1992.

Areas of

Concentration

Historical and Comparative Sociology

World-Systems Analysis

Historical Sociology of Food

Empires and Hegemonies

Political Economy of Pacific-Asia

Empires and Hegemonies

Contemporary Capitalism

Sociology of Colonialism

Ethnic Conflicts

Political Sociology