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Andrew Schrank Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
111 Thayer Street Brown University
Providence, RI 02912 Email: [email protected]
Tel: 401.863.2326 ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University, July 2014 Faculty Associate, Population Studies and Training Center, June 2018- Associated Faculty, Department of Political Science, October 2019-
Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of New Mexico, July 2011June 2014
Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of New Mexico, August 2010June 2011 Associate Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico, July 2007-July 2010
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico, August 2005June 2007
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University, July 2001July 2005
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, August 2000July 2001
Visiting Lecturer in Sociology, University of Illinois-Chicago, August 1999May 2000 EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology 2000 M.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology 1998 B.A. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor History 1990
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, “Innovation, Equity, and the Future of Prosperity.” Fellow, 2019-2024.
“Social Science Research Institute, Brown University, Seed Funding, “Where do pharmacists come
from? Education, migration, and barriers to entry in the making of a profession.” Co-investigator with Nitsan Chorev.
National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: Science Policy Research Report: Government Brokerage of Innovation Networks,” 2017. Collaborative research with Josh Whitford, Columbia University ($48,898; Brown share $24,789).
Institute of International Education, “How and When Does Grassroots Reform Scale Up?,” 2017.
Principal investigator ($55,205.48). Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. Conference and research collaboration, “Toward Universal Access to
High-Quality, Rights-Based Sexual and Reproductive Health in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Watson Institute and International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2016-17. Co-investigator ($250,000).
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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, “Professionals and the Professions in the Developing World,” 2015. Collaboration Grant ($8,000).
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, “State Building and
Governance,” 2013. Co-facilitator with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University. National Science Foundation. One of 60 former fellows highlighted (out of more than 45,000 total) to
commemorate the 60th anniversary of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. 2012. http://www.nsfgrfp.org/60th_anniversary_grfp/awardees.
Ford Foundation-Latin American Studies Special Projects Initiative, “Rewarding Regulation in Latin
America” ($5,000). Supplemental funding ($15,000) from Politics & Society. 2011. National Science Foundation, Program in the Science of Science and Innovation Policy, “Government
Responses to Network Failures: The Case of the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships,” 2010–2012. Collaborative research with Josh Whitford, Columbia University ($600,482; UNM share $321,394).
Russell Sage Foundation, “Working Group on Labor Standards and Migration,” 2009–2010.Co-
sponsored with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David Weil, Boston University ($7, 380).
Eugene V. Gallegos Lectureship, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, 2009–10;
2012-14. Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, “Rethinking
Development Studies,” 2009. Co-facilitator with Ben Ross Schneider, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gorham Foundation/Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, “Globalization
and Popular Protest in Contemporary Latin America: A Colloquium Series,” 2007–2008. Co-sponsor with Kathryn Hochstetler, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico ($4,500).
Nominated for “Outstanding Teacher of the Year,” University of New Mexico, 2005, 2007. Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, Yale University, “The Software Industry in the Developing
World,” 2003–2004. Social Science Research Committee, Yale University, “Export Processing Zones in the Caribbean
Basin,” 2003–2004. James W. McLamore Summer Research Award, University of Miami, 2001 (declined)
Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, 1998
Fulbright/Institute of International Education Dissertation Fellowship, 1997–1998 MacArthur Foundation/Global Studies Research Program Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1993–
1994
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Passed preliminary examinations in demography and the sociology of economic change with distinction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993–1994.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1992–1993; 1994–1996. Social Science Research Council International Predissertation Fellowship, 1991–1992
University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990–1991
BOOKS Root-Cause Regulation: Protecting Work and Workers in the 21st Century. Harvard University Press (2018).
Co-authored with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Subject of “Author Meets Critics” session, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, June 24, 2018; also reviewed in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and economíaunam.
When Networks Fail: Understanding Hidden Weaknesses in the Global Economy. Book manuscript under
advanced contract with Princeton University Press. Draft complete; revisions underway. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
The Economic Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment. Book manuscript under advanced contract
with Polity Press. The Global Governance of Food (New York: Routledge 2008). Co-edited with Abigail Cooke, University of
California-Los Angeles, Sara Curran, University of Washington, and April Linton, University of California-San Diego.
ARTICLES AND COMMENTS
“The Social Construction of the Regulatory Burden: Substantive and Methodological Considerations.” Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University. Social Forces. Forthcoming.
“Regulators without Borders? Labor Inspectors in Latin America and Beyond.” Global Networks.
Forthcoming. “Corporations and codes of conduct: rights without responsibilities.” Socio-Economic Review.
Forthcoming. “Mobile Professionals and Metropolitan Models: The German Roots of Vocational Education in Latin
America.” European Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming. “Rebuilding Labor Power in the Postindustrial United States,” Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science. 685 (1) 2019.
“Cross-Class Coalitions and Collective Goods: The Farmacias del Pueblo in the Dominican Republic.” Comparative Politics. 51 (2) 2019.
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“Brokerage and Boots on the Ground: Complements or Substitutes in the Manufacturing Extension
Partnerships.” Economic Development Quarterly. 32 (4) 2018. Co-authored with Philipp Brandt, University of Mannheim, and Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
“Professionals and Professions in the Global South: An Introduction.” Sociology of Development 3 (3)
2017. Co-authored with Nitsan Chorev. “The Political Economy of Performance Standards: Automotive Industrial Policy in Comparative
Historical Perspective.” Journal of Development Studies 53 (12) 2017. “Toward a New Economic Sociology of Development.” Sociology of Development 1 (2) 2015. “Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality.” Latin American Politics & Society.
56 (1) 2014. Co-authored with Juan Pablo Luna, Catholic University of Chile and M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University.
“Introduction to the Special Issue on Rewarding Regulation in Latin America.” Politics & Society. 41
(4) 2013. “From disguised protectionism to rewarding regulation: The impact of trade-related labor standards
in the Dominican Republic.” Regulation & Governance. 7 (3) 2013. Winner of the Regulation & Governance Prize for best article in Vol. 7 of the journal.
“Quantitative Cross-National Sociology and the Methodological Abyss: Comment on Alcacer and
Ingram.” American Journal of Sociology 118 (4) 2013. “Capturing State Strength: Experimental and Econometric Approaches.” Revista de Ciencia Política.
32 (3) 2012. Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University. “Anatomy of Network Failure.” Sociological Theory 29 (3) 2011. Co-authored with Josh Whitford,
Columbia University. “Co-producing Workplace Transformation: The Dominican Republic in Comparative Perspective.” Socio-
Economic Review 9 (2) 2011. Also included in the Socio-Economic Review’s “virtual special issue” on labor markets (2012) http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/soceco/labour_markets.html.
“Incubating Innovation or Cultivating Corruption? The Developmental State and the Life Sciences in
Asia.” Social Forces 88 (3) 2010. Co-authored with Cheol-Sung Lee, University of Chicago
“Industrial Policy in the United States: A Neo-Polanyian Interpretation.” Politics & Society 37 (4) 2009. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
“Municipal Neoliberalism and Municipal Socialism: Urban Political Economy in Contemporary Latin
America.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33 (2) 2009. Co-authored with Ben Goldfrank, Seton Hall University. Republished along with a “small number” of articles believed to be of “particular significance” in a virtual special issue in honor of the journal’s 40th anniversary (2017). http://www.ijurr.org/virtual-issues/ijurr-1977-2017-40th-anniversary-virtual-issue/
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“Professionalization and Probity in the Patrimonial State: Labor Law Enforcement in the Dominican Republic.” Latin American Politics & Society 51 (2) 2009.
“Understanding Latin American Political Economy: Varieties of Capitalism or Fiscal Sociology?.”
Economy & Society 38 (1) 2009. “Export Processing Zones in the Dominican Republic: Schools or Stopgaps?” World Development 36
(8) 2008. “Homeward Bound: Interest, Identity, and Investor Behavior in a Third World Export Platform.”
American Journal of Sociology 114 (1) 2008. Winner of the Best Article Award, American Sociological Association Section on the Political Economy of the World-System, 2010
“Conclusion: Negotiating the Dynamics of Global Complexity.” Globalizations 5 (2) 2008. Co-
authored with April Cooke, University of California-Los Angeles, Sara Curran, University of Washington, and April Linton, University of California-San Diego. Reprinted in S. Curran et al., eds., The Global Governance of Food (New York: Routledge, 2008).
“Sugar’s political by-product: The Caribbean Basin Initiative.” Globalizations 5 (2) 2008. Reprinted in
S. Curran et al., eds., The Global Governance of Food (New York: Routledge, 2008). “Introduction: Agriculture, Trade, and the Global Governance of Food.” Globalizations 5 (2) 2008. Co-
authored with April Cooke, University of California-Los Angeles, Sara Curran, University of Washington, and April Linton, University of California-San Diego. Reprinted in S. Curran et al., eds., The Global Governance of Food (New York: Routledge, 2008).
“Toward Managed Flexibility: The Revival of Labour Inspection in the Latin World.” International
Labour Review 148 (1) 2008. Co-authored with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Asian Industrialization in Latin American Perspective: The Limits to Institutional Analysis.” Latin
American Politics & Society 49 (2) 2007. Review article. “Growth and Governance: A Defense.” Journal of Politics 69 (2) 2007. Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz,
the Ohio State University. Rejoinder. “Growth and Governance: Models, Measures, and Mechanisms.” Journal of Politics 69 (2) 2007. Co-
authored with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University. “Credit Where Credit Is Due: Open Economy Industrial Policy and Export Diversification in Latin America
and the Caribbean.” Politics & Society 33 (December) 2005. Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University.
“Entrepreneurship, Export Diversification, and Economic Reform: The Birth of a ‘Developmental
Community’ in the Dominican Republic.” Comparative Politics 38 (October) 2005. “With a Little Help from My Friends: Partisan Politics, Transnational Alliances, and Labor Rights in Latin
America.” Comparative Political Studies 38 (8) 2005. Co-authored with M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University.
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“The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software.” International Studies
Quarterly 49 (1) 2005. Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University, and Kenneth Shadlen, the London School of Economics.
“Ready-to-Wear Development? Foreign Investment, Technology Transfer, and Learning-by-Watching in
the Apparel Trade.” Social Forces 83 (1) 2004. “Foreign investors, ‘flying geese,’ and the limits to export-led industrialization in the Dominican
Republic.” Theory & Society 32 (4) 2003. “Luring, Learning, and Lobbying: The Limits to Capital Mobility in the Dominican Republic.” Studies in
Comparative International Development 37 (4) 2003. “Export Processing Zones: Free Market Islands or Bridges to Structural Transformation?”
Development Policy Review 19 (2) 2001. ORIGINAL BOOK CHAPTERS
“Imported Institutions: Boon or Bane in the Developing World?” Forthcoming in Daniel Brinks, Steven Levitsky, and Maria Victoria Murillo, eds., Understanding Institutional Weakness: Lessons from Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press.
“Transnational Integration and Labor Market Regulation in Mexico and Beyond.” Pp. 80-100 in Laszlo
Bruszt and Gerald McDermott, eds., Leveling the Playing Field. Oxford University Press, 2014. Co-authored with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“A Second Regulatory Divide? Labor Inspection Regimes in Comparative Historical Perspective.” Pp. 89-
112 in Paul Osterman, ed., Economy and Society: Essays in Honor of Michael J. Piore. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013.
“Perception and Misperception in Governance Research: Evidence from Latin America.” Ch. 4 in Jomo
Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury, eds. Is Good Governance Good for Development? London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University.
“Latin American Labor Reforms: Evaluating Risk and Security.” Pp. 790-812 in José Antonio Ocampo
and Jaime Ros, eds., Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Co-authored with M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University, and Lucas Ronconi, Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (Argentina).
“Green Capitalists in a Purple State: Sandia National Laboratories and the Renewable Energy Industry in
New Mexico.” Pp. 96-108 in Fred Block and Matt Keller, eds., States of Innovation: Technology Policy in the United States. Boulder: Paradigm, 2011.
“The Paradox of the Weak State Revisited: Industrial Policy, Network Governance, and Political
Decentralization in the United States.” Pp. 261-281 in Fred Block and Matt Keller, eds., States of Innovation: Technology Policy in the United States. Boulder: Paradigm, 2011. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
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“Labor Organizations and their Role in the Era of Political and Economic Reforms.” Pp. 247-268 in Carlos Scartascini, Ernesto Stein, and Mariano Tommasi, eds., How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors, and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.Co-authored with M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University.
“Case-Based Research.” Pp. 21-38 in Ellen Perecman and Sara R. Curran, eds., A Handbook for Social
Science Field Research: Essays and Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods. Beverly Hills: Sage, 2006.
“The Case Study and Causal Inference.” Pp. 169-174 in Ellen Perecman and Sara R. Curran, eds., A
Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays and Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods. Beverly Hills: Sage, 2006.
“Concluding Remarks.” Pp. 217-225 in Ellen Perecman and Sara R. Curran, eds., A Handbook for Social
Science Field Research: Essays and Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods. Beverly Hills: Sage, 2006.
“Conquering, Comprador, or Competitive? The National Bourgeoisie in the Developing World.” Pp. 91-
120 in Frederick Buttel and Philip McMichael, eds., Research in Rural Sociology and Development Volume 11: New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development. Amsterdam: JAI/Elsevier Science, 2005.
“Peasants, Planters, and the Predatory State: Export Diversification in the Dominican Republic, 1970-
2000.” Pp. 356-376 in Paul Ciccantell, Gay Seidman, and David Smith, eds., Research in Rural Sociology and Development Volume 10: Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy. Amsterdam: JAI/Elsevier Science, 2005.
“Introduction to the Dominican Economy.” Pp. 49-50 in Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, and Jocelyn Santana,
eds., Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic. Washington: Teaching for Change, 2005. “The Free Trade Zones.” Pp. 52-53 in Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, and Jocelyn Santana, eds., Caribbean
Connections: The Dominican Republic. Washington: Teaching for Change, 2005. “Summary of the US Team.” Pp. 333-340 in Mitsuhiro Kagami and Masatsugu Tsuji, eds., Industrial
Agglomeration: Facts and Lessons for Developing Countries. Chiba: Institute for Developing Economies, 2003.
“The Software Industry in North America: Human Capital, International Migration, and Foreign Trade.”
Pp. 341-364 in Mitsuhiro Kagami and Masatsugu Tsuji, eds., Industrial Agglomeration: Facts and Lessons for Developing Countries. Chiba: Institute for Developing Economies, 2003. Reprinted in M.Tsuji, E. Giovanetti, and M. Kagami, eds., Industrial Agglomeration and New Technologies: A Global Perspective (Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, 2006).
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ARTICLES IN NON-REFEREED PERIODICALS AND NEWSLETTERS
“Bringing development back into (economic) sociology. Andrew Schrank interviewed by Felipe González and Aldo Madariaga.” economic sociology_the european electronic newsletter. 20 (3): 19-28.
“A Defense of Slowbalization,” Boston Review online. June 29, 2017. “Puerto Rico’s Moment of Truth.” Foreign Affairs online. July 5, 2016. Co-authored with Michael Piore. “The Future of Work: A Nightmare Scenario—and Three Things That Might Prevent It.” Pacific
Standard online. August 10, 2015. “Athens on the Caribbean.” Foreign Affairs online. July 6, 2015. Co-authored with Deepak Lamba-
Nieves. “Labor Standards and Economic Development in Latin America: Competitors or Complements?”
Brown Journal of World Affairs XX (2) 2014. “‘Relational Work in Market Societies,’ A Review of a Special Issue of Politics & Society.” Accounts 12
(1) 2012. “It’s Time to Form a Grassroots Coalition.” 2011. The American Prospect. December 12. “Wronged without Recourse.” Boston Review (September-October 2011). Co-authored with Jessica
Garrick. “The Heinrich Maneuver.” Boston Review (January-February 2011). “The Sociology of Development and the Development of Sociology.” Sociologica (Italy) January 2010. “Discipline and Development and the Development of the Discipline.” Political Sociology: States,
Power, and Societies. 13 (2) 2007. “Secrets of Global Success: How Some Latin Businesses Not Only Survived But Thrived Under
Globalization.” Americas Quarterly. 1 (1) 2007. “Trading Up?” Boston Review (September-October 2006). Co-authored with Michael Piore,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reprinted as “Labour Inspection for Decent Work and Economic Development” in José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo K.S., eds., Towards Full and Decent Employment (London: Orient Longman Private Limited2007).
“Labor Inspectors in Latin America.” In Critical Solidarity: Newsletter of the American Sociological
Association’s Section on Labor and Labor Movements.6 (2) 2006. Co-authored with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Los retos para el desarrollo de la industria del software.” Comercio Exterior. 55 (9) 2005. Co-authored
with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Clemente Ruiz Durán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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“Commerce and Conflict: The U.S. Effort to Counter Terrorism with Trade May Backfire,” Middle East
Policy X (3) 2003. Co-authored with Pete Moore, University of Miami. BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Charles Hale, Más que un Indio (More than an Indian): Racial Ambivalence and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in Guatemala. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. 2006. American Journal of Sociology114 (5) 2009.
Review of Maria Lorena Cook, The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights.
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2007. Political Science Quarterly123 (2) 2008. Review of Josh Whitford, The New Old Economy: Networks, Institutions, and the Transformation of
American Manufacturing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. Economic Sociology—European Electronic Newsletter8 (3) 2007.
Review of Leslie Anderson and Lawrence Dodd, Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral
Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. American Journal of Sociology 111 (March) 2006.
Review of Bai Gao, Japan’s Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of Prosperity and Stagnation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. American Journal of Sociology 108 (September) 2002. Review of José Itzigsohn, Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal
Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. Canadian Journal of Political Science 34 (4) 2001.
Review of Henry Frundt, Trade Conditions and Labor Rights, U.S. Initiatives, Dominican and Central
American Responses. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1998. American Journal of Sociology 105 (March) 2000.
CONSULTING ACTIVITIES AND REPORTS
United States Agency for International Development, “Grassroots Reform in the Global South,” Research and Innovation Grants Working Paper Series, 2017. Co-authored with Anindita Adhikari, Benjamin Bradlow, Patrick Heller, Rehan Rafay Jamil, Kristine Li , Chantel Pheiffer, and Marcus Walton.
Center for a New Economy/Centro para una Nueva Economía, San Juan, Puerto Rico, April-
September, 2017. Consultant. World Bank, “Unified Procurement of Drugs and Medical Equipment in the Dominican Republic: The
Role of IPAC,” 2014-15. Consultant. United States Department of Labor, International Labor Affairs Bureau, “Experimental Design Strategies
for Improving Labor Inspection Systems,” 2013-14. Consultant.
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Somos Un Pueblo Unido, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mexican Immigrants and Wage Theft in New Mexico. Co-authored with Jessica Garrick.
Inter-American Development Bank, “Business Politics in Latin America: Preferences and Organization in
the Policy Process,” 2012-13. Peer reviewer. World Bank, “Promoting Growth and Efficiency Through Labor Inspection,” 2011. Consultant. Inter-American Development Bank, “The Policymaking Process in Panama,” 2009. Consultant. United Nations Development Programme, “Latin American Labor Regulation: Evaluating Risk and
Security,” 2009. Collaborators: Victoria Murillo, Columbia University, and Lucas Ronconi, Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento (Argentina). Consultant.
Inter-American Development Bank, “The Policymaking Process in the Dominican Republic,” 2008.
Consultant. Inter-American Development Bank, “The Politics of Policies: Unions,” 2006. Co-authored with Victoria
Murillo, Columbia University. Consultant.
United Nations Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean, “Norms, Regulations, and Labor Standards in Central America and the Dominican Republic,” 2006–2007. Co-authored with Michael Piore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Consultant.
Japanese External Trade Organization, “Supply-Chain, Industrial Agglomeration, and Agglomeration in
Knowledge-Based Society,” 2002–2003.Co-authored with Clemente Ruíz Duran, Universidad Nacional Aútonoma de México. Consultant.
SELECTED WORKS IN PROGRESS
“Beyond patronage and patriarchy: The impact of meritocracy in a regulatory bureaucracy.” Revise and
resubmit at Industrial and Labor Relations Review. “Capabilities and Competitiveness: Essential Medicines in the Dominican Republic.” Draft complete;
revisions underway. “The Private Roots of Public Regulation in the United States: The Case of the National Consumers
League.” Draft complete; revisions underway. “Industrial Policymaking in the United States: The Case of the Manufacturing Extension
Partnerships.” Draft underway. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University. "The International Political Economy of Software Protection: De Jure vs. De Facto." Draft underway.
Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University, and Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics.
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INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2007-2020
“Globalizing Organization Theory: The View from Development Sociology.” Globalizing Organization Theory, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, January 9, 2020.
“Corporate Governance and Network Failure: The Role of Public Policy.” Greater Boston Corporate
Governance Workshop, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 21, 2019.
“Small Firms and Their Helpers Revisited: The Pharmaceutical industry in the Dominican Republic.” First Meeting of the Tendler Network, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York City, New York, April 22, 2019.
“Working at Scale: Lessons on Cost Savings and Return on Investment from the Essential Medicines
Program in the Dominican Republic.” Social Accountability for Improving Health and Nutrition of Women, Children and Adolescents, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India, December 11, 2018.
“Lessons from Successful Grassroots Reform Movements.” Social Accountability for Improving Health
and Nutrition of Women, Children and Adolescents, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, World Health Organization, New Delhi, India, December 11, 2018.
“Good Jobs in All Communities.” Presented to the “Policy Feedbacks Project,” Scholars Strategy
Network, Harvard University, September 22, 2018. “Capabilities and Competitiveness: Essential Medicines in the Dominican Republic.” David R.
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, February 6, 2018. “Government Brokerage of Innovation Networks,” Innovation Policy Forum of the Board on Science,
Technology, and Economic Policy, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, January 9, 2018; also presented at NAS workshop on “Revisiting the Manufacturing USA Institutes,” Washington, District of Columbia, November 14, 2018.
“Root-Cause Regulation: Protecting Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century.” Chicago-Kent
Law School. October 27, 2017. “Grassroots Reform in the Global South,” United States Agency for International Development,
Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance, Washington, District of Columbia, July 12, 2017; also at Results for Development, Washington, District of Columbia, November 3, 2017 (Getting to Scale: Social Accountability for Health Governance).
“Beyond the Silicon Valley Consensus,” Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Tecnológico
de Monterrey, Ciudad de México, México, June 23, 2017; also presented in revised form at the “Roundtable: Economic and Development Policy at Home and Abroad, after Trump's Election,” 29th annual meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Lyon, France, June 29, 2017.
“Inspección del Trabajo y Desarrollo Sostenible,” Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia,
Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia, May 10, 2017.
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“Private Sector Perceptions of Public Sector Performance: Methodological and Substantive Considerations,” Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, March 17, 2017.
“Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Regulation: A Comparative Study.” Presented at the New
York University Wagner School of Public Service, March 2, 2017; as well as the Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), April 3, 2017.
“Labor in GPNs: Where do we go from here?” Presented at the workshop on “GVCs and Social
Upgrading,” Global Development Institute, Manchester University, Manchester, United Kingdom, May 6, 2016.
“A Second Regulatory Divide? Labor Inspection in Europe and the Americas.” Presented at the
Department of Sociology, University of California at Riverside, May 19, 2016. “The Private Roots of Public Regulation in the United States: The Case of the National Consumers
League,” Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 24, 2016; and “History, Culture, and Society Workshop,” Harvard University, October 11, 2019.
“Socio-economic impacts of trade agreements.” Keynote address to the International Labour Office,
Lima, Peru, February 4, 2015. “Toward Rewarding Regulation in Latin America.” Paper presented at the European University
Institute, Florence, Italy, October 17, 2014. “Regulators without Borders: Labor Inspectors in Latin America and Beyond.” Paper presented at the
Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 10, 2015.
“Regímenes Políticos y Estándares de Desempeño: Política industrial automotriz en perspectiva
comparada.” Paper presented at FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, March 28, 2014.
“Organized Labor and Resource Nationalism in Latin America.” Presented at the workshop on Commodity Boom y economía política de América Latina: los nuevos temas de la agenda, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, August 14, 2013.
“States and Development.” Presented to the European School on New Institutional Economics,
Cargese, France, May 22, 2013.
“Regulatory Reform in Latin America.” Presented at the Just Supply Chains: Regulatory Reform workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 13, 2012.
“Toward a New Economic Sociology of Development.” Presented at the workshop on Development
and Underdevelopment in the Modern World-System: From Empirical Work to Reconceptualization, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, October 19, 2012
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“Makers, Breakers, or Caretakers?: Lawyers and National Constitutions in Latin America and Beyond.” Presented at the workshop on Evidence-Based Approaches to Latin American Constitutionalism, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, April 27, 2012.
“Immigration Politics in the Southwestern United States: A Comparison of Arizona and New Mexico.”
Presented at the workshop on Changing Patterns of Nationalism, Ethnocentrism, and Immigrant Accommodation in the 21st Century, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, March 8, 2012.
“Transnational Integration and Labor Market Regulation in Mexico and Beyond.” Presented at the
workshop on Transnational Integration Regimes and Domestic Institutional Change in Emerging Market Economies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 16, 2011; revised version presented at the EUI-IDB Sciber Conference, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, February 22, 2012 and the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, San Diego, California, April 2, 2012.
“A Second Regulatory Divide? Labor Inspection in Comparative Historical Perspective.” Presented to the
Regents of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 1, 2012; also presented to the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 6, 2012.
“Toward Rewarding Regulation in Latin America.” Presented to the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, November 10, 2011. “Supply Chain Cities in Asia: Cause or Consequence of Apparel Export Growth?” Presented at the
workshop on Global Commodities: Chained and Unchained, Northeastern University, March 31, 2011. “Labor Law Enforcement in Latin America: Reconciling Compliance and Competitiveness.” Presented at
the Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 16, 2011. “The ILO and Development: The Diffusion of Beneficial Constraints.” Presented at a workshop on the
ILO in the Pacific Rim at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, February 4, 2011.
“Merit-based Recruitment and Gender Inequality: A Natural Experiment in the Dominican Republic.”
Presented to the Department of Sociology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, November 18, 2010.
“Private Actors and Labor Standards: Potential Synergies.” Presented at the Fair Labor Association
workshop on Governance Gaps in Global Supply Chains – Can Private Actors Deliver the Public Goods?, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, June 17, 2010.
“Co-producing Workplace Transformation: The Dominican Republic in Comparative Perspective.”
Presented at the HBS International Research Conference, Harvard University, May 13-14, 2010. “A Developmental Agency in a Predatory State: The Ministry of Labor in the Dominican Republic.”
Presented at the workshop on States, Development and Global Governance,University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 12-13, 2010.
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“Fiscal Responsibility Laws in the Developing World: Origins and Implications.” Presented at Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Paris, France, July 17, 2009. Featured Panel: “Dynamics of Finance Capital.”
“Labor Law Enforcement in Latin America: European Models, US Influence, and Local Outcomes.”
Plenary address to the Regulating Decent Work Conference, International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, July 8, 2009.
“The Policymaking Process in Panamá.” Presented at the Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, DC, May 19, 2009. “Engendering Labor Rights? The Feminization of Labor Law Enforcement in the Dominican Republic.”
Presented at the Supply Chain of the Future Research Roundtable, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, January 29, 2009.
“Social Remittances in the Dominican Republic: Empathy, Hypocrisy, or Fantasy?” Presented at the
workshop on Immigrants and their Homeland Connections, Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, November 21, 2008.
“Green Capitalists in a Purple State: Sandia National Laboratories and the Renewable Energy Industry
in New Mexico.” Presented at the Great Transformations Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, California, June 21, 2008.
“Measures and Quantitative Methods Applied to Institutions.” Presented to the European School on
New Institutional Economics, Cargese, France, May 21, 2008. “What should institutions do: Protect private property or disseminate knowledge?” Presented at the
workshop on Institution Building, Development, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, March 25, 2008.
“International Labor Standards and National Regulatory Agencies: U.S. Influence, European Models,
and Latin American Outcomes.” Presented at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, February 21, 2008.
“Labor regulation.” Presented to the Global Production Networks and Decent Work Research Group,
International Labour Organization, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13, 2008. “Building/Re-Building State Capacity: Complement or Alternative to Private Monitoring Efforts?”
Presented at the Just Supply Chains Workshop I: Monitoring. . .And Beyond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 12, 2008.
“Conceptualizing and Measuring Institutions.” Presented at the 2nd workshop on Measuring Law and
Institutions, University of Paris X, Paris, France, December 14-15, 2007. “Idea Gaps and Industrial Extension in Latin America: The Dominican Republic in Comparative
Perspective.” Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 25, 2007.
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“Growth and Governance: Models, Measures, and Mechanisms.” Department of Political Science, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, February 12, 2007; also presented to the Department of Political Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 6, 2007.
“Labor Inspectors in the CAFTA Countries: Cosmetic, Costly, or Constructive?” Presented at the
Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 5, 2007. “Labor Standards and Human Resources: A Natural Experiment in an Unlikely Laboratory.”
Presented at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 8, 2007.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2007-2019.
“Mobile Professionals and Metropolitan Models: The German Roots of Vocational Education in Latin
America.” Paper presented to 114th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York City, New York, August 10, 2019.
“Capabilities and Competitiveness: Essential Medicines in the Dominican Republic and Beyond.”
Paper presented to the American Sociological Association Preconference, Social Science and Social Justice: Global Health Research Since the Start of the HIV Pandemic, New York City, New York, August 9, 2019.
“Do Organizations Follow Their Leaders or Pursue Their Goals? Evidence from Industrial Policymaking
in the United States.” Presented at the 31st Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the New School for Social Research, New York City, New York, June 29, 2019. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
“Double Movements, Vested Interests, and the State of American Industrial Policy.” Presented at the
31st Annual Meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, the New School for Social Research, New York City, New York, June 28, 2019. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
“Beyond Specialization: Regulatory Agencies in the 21st Century.” Presented at the 114th annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 31, 2018. “The International Political Economy of Software Protection: De Jure vs. De Facto.” Presented at the
2016 Meetings of the International Political Economy Society, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, November 11, 2016; as well as the 113th Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, September 2, 2017. Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, the Ohio State University, and Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics.
“Professionals and the Professions in the Developing World.” Presented at the 5th annual conference
of the Development Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, October 7, 2016. Co-authored with Nitsan Chorev, Brown University.
“The Private Roots of Public Regulation in the United States: The Case of the National Consumers League.” Presented at the 111th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington, August 20, 2016; and the 112th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 3, 2016.
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“Private Sector Perceptions of Public Sector Performance in Cross-National Perspective:
Methodological and Substantive Considerations.” Presented at the 111th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Seattle, Washington, August 20, 2016; the workshop on “Varieties of Backlash,” University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, December 1, 2017; and the 114th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 31, 2018. Co-authored with Marcus Kurtz, Ohio State University.
“Imported Institutions: Boon or Bane in the Developing World?” Presented at the first workshop on
“Weak Institutions in Latin America,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 8, 2016; a follow-up workshop at the University of Texas at Austin, September 29, 2017; and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California, June 25, 2016.
“From Competencia Desleal to Continuous Improvement: The Farmacias del Pueblo in the Dominican
Republic.” Presented at the 3rd annual meeting of the Red de Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL), Massachusetts Institute of technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 11, 2016; and under a slightly different title at the 112th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 13, 2017.
“Measuring institutions or measuring policies?” Presented at the Society for the Advancement of
Socio-Economics, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, June 2, 2015. “The non-bureaucratic elements of bureaucracy: Labor inspectors in the Dominican Republic.”
Sociology of Development, 3rd annual conference, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 14, 2015.
“Deutschland Unter Alles? The German Roots of Vocational Education and Training in Latin America.”
Presented at the first annual meeting of the Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina, Santiago, Chile, June 10, 2014; the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 2014; and the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August 17, 2014.
“Political Regimes and Performance Standards: Automotive Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective.” Presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York City, New York, August 12, 2013, and the 111th Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, September 5, 2015; and in revised and retitled form at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 25, 2015.
“The National Bureaucratic Underpinnings of Transnational Regulatory Networks: Latin American
Labor Inspectors in Comparative Perspective.” Presented at 24th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 30, 2012; the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado, August 17, 2012; and the 108th Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1, 2012.
“Government Responses to Network Failures: The Case of the Manufacturing Extension
Partnerships.” Presented at 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Madrid, Spain, June 24th, 2011.
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“A Developmental Agency in a Predatory State: The Ministry of Labor in the Dominican Republic.”
Presented at 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Madrid, Spain, June 23, 2011; as well as the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, August 20, 2011.
“Engendering Labor Rights? Female Factory Inspectors in the Dominican Republic.” Presented at the
Thematic Session on “Human Rights at Work,” 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 14-17, 2010.
“Strengthening labor inspection in the Dominican Republic.” International Sociological Association
Research Committee 44: Labor Movements, Barcelona, Spain, September 7, 2008. “From industrial sociology to industry studies: Is sub-disciplinary failure a basis for inter-disciplinary
success?” Presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 4th, 2008.
“International Labor Standards and National Regulatory Agencies: US Influence, European Models,
and Latin American Outcomes.” Presented at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2nd, 2008 as well as the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13, 2009.
“Labor Inspectors in the CAFTA Countries: Cosmetic, Costly, or Constructive?” Presented at the 48th
Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 3, 2007 as well as the 27th International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 7, 2007.
“Anatomy of Network Failure.” Presented at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics,
Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30, 2007 as well as the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York, August 14, 2007. Co-authored with Josh Whitford, Columbia University.
“Professionalization and Probity in the Patrimonial State: Labor Law Enforcement in the Dominican
Republic.” Presented at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, New York, August 13, 2007; as well as the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, San José, Costa Rica, July 23, 2008.
PANEL PARTICIPANT 2007-2019
Author meets critics session: Tim Bartley, Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy. Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 2019.
Author meets critics session: Michael Piore and Andrew Schrank, Root-Cause Regulation: Protecting
Work and Workers in the Twenty-First Century, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Kyoto, Japan, June 24, 2018.
“Changes and Continuities: Labor Politics and Enforcement in the Developing World,” American
Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, September 1, 2017. Discussant.
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”Regular Session: Globalization,” 112th Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 12, 2017. Discussant. Author meets critics session: Juliana Martinez-Franzoni and Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, The Quest for
Universal Social Policy in the South: Actors, Ideas, and Architectures, at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Lyon, France, July 1, 2017.
“The Middle Income Trap and the Silicon Valley Consensus,” American University-Inter-American
Development Bank Seminar Series, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, June 2, 2017.
Author meets critics session: Alisha Holland, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal
Welfare in Latin America, Red de Economía Política de América Latina, Lima, Peru, April 28, 2017. “Trading Places: The Role of Asian and Latin American Capitalisms in the Reshaping of the Global
Economy,” at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California, June 24, 2016. Discussant.
Author meets critics session: John Padgett and Walter Powell, The Emergence of Organizations and
Markets, at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, June 2, 2015.
“Regular Session: Class Consciousness and Culture in Labor Mobilization.” 109th Annual Meeting of
the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August 17, 2014. Discussant. “Mobility, Boundaries, and the Politics of Work.” 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Advancement of Socio-Economics, Chicago, Illinois, July 10, 2014. Discussant. “Idiomas, indices, y imperalismo intelecutal: riesgos y oportunidades para el sur global.” Paper
presented at the I Seminario de reflexión sobre la investigación: estrategias de publicación indexada en la academia global,” FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, March 27, 2014.
“The Future of Latin American Political Economy Scholarship.” Concluding panel at workshop on “Latin American Political Economy Scholarship: The State of the Art,” Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 11, 2013.
Author meets critics session: Sebastian Etchemendy’s Models of Economic Liberalization. 24th Annual
Meetings of the Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Temple University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 28, 2012.
“Inequality.” Panel at the conference on Bridging Silos, Breaking Silences: New Responses to
Instability and Inequality, Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York, New York, November 5, 2011.
“Hierarchical Capitalism: Business, Labor, and the Challenge of Equitable Development in Latin
America,” by Ben Ross Schneider, book manuscript workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 30, 2011. Discussant/critic.
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“States, Development and Global Governance,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, May 6-
7, 2011. Discussant. “Constructing Global Legitimacy: Science, Markets and Governance in the Cotton Trade,” by Amy
Quark, book manuscript workshop, Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, December 10, 2010. Discussant/critic.
“Regulation.” Conference in Honor of Michael Piore’s Contributions to the Social Sciences,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, October 1, 2010. Discussant. “Does globalization constrain or empower the next left?” The Next Left: Globalized Social
Democracy in the North and South, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, September 30, 2010. Discussant.
“Workplace Transformation.” 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 2010. Discussant. Author meets critics session: Glenn Morgan et al., eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional
Analysis. 22nd Annual Meetings of the Society of the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 24, 2010.
“Relational Work in Economic Sociology.” University of California, Davis, May 1, 2010. Discussant. “Development and Social Inequality.” 104thAnnual Meeting of the American Sociological Association,
San Francisco, California, August 10, 2009. Discussant. “Labor-based Development: New Perspectives and Strategies.” 28th International Congress of the
Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13, 2009. Discussant. “International Finance in Latin America: Governance, Reform, and Volatility.”28th International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 13, 2009. Chair. “Global Production and Decent Work: Global Trends and Governance Challenges.” 20th Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, San José, Costa Rica, July 23, 2008. Discussant.
“Companies and countries.”Plenary breakout session at the 2008 Industry Studies Annual Conference
sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1, 2008. “Emerging Economies and the Global Drive for Knowledge Economies.” “Innovative Panel” at the
49th Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, California, March 29, 2008, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Panelist.
“The Comparative Constitutions Project: Measurement and Applications.” 2nd workshop on
“Measuring Law and Institutions,” University of Paris X, Paris, France, December 14-15, 2007. Discussant.
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“The Spread of ‘Wal-Martization’ in the Americas: Comparative Labor and Developmental Impacts of Globalized Retail and Sourcing Networks.” 27th International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 7, 2007. Discussant.
“After the Washington Consensus, What Next?” 27th International Conference of the Latin American
Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, September 7, 2007. Chair. “Explaining Party System Change in Latin America.” 103rd Annual Meetings of the American Political
Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August 31, 2007. Chair and discussant. “Strategic Dilemmas in Getting to Another World.” CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, New
York, August 9, 2007. Discussant. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Activity
American Journal of Sociology, consulting editor, 2008-2011 Latin American Politics & Society, board member, 2007- Sociology of Development, board member, 2014- Studies in Comparative International Development, board member, 2014- Politics and Society in Latin America, Cambridge University Press, co-editor with Tulia Faletti,
University of Pennsylvania, Juan Pablo Luna, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, and M. Victoria Murillo, Columbia University, 2017-.
Politics and Society, board member, 2008-2017 Manuscript and Grant Reviewer
American Journal of Sociology; American Political Science Review; American Sociological Review; Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Studies; Economy & Society; Global Labour Journal; Globalizations; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Politics; Journal of World-Systems Research; Latin American Politics & Society; New Political Economy; Organization Studies; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Regulation & Governance; Research Policy; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; Research Policy, Review of International Political Economy, Social Problems; Social Science Research; Socio-Economic Review; Studies in Comparative International Development; Theory & Society, World Politics; Cambridge University Press; Cornell University Press; Georgetown University Press; International Labor Organisation; National Research Council; National Science Foundation; Pennsylvania State University Press; Stanford University Press; University of Texas Press; Polity Press; Sage/Pine Forge Press; Social Science Research Council; Center for Engaged Scholarship.
Brown University
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Watson Executive Committee, Member, 2018- Undergraduate Majors Committee, Member, 2018- Post-doctoral Fellows Search Committee member, 2017-18
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Watson Advisory Group, member, 2017- Co-convener, Brown International Advanced Research Institute, “Development and
Governance,” June 2015 and June 2016 Search Committee, lecturer, 2019
Search Committee, director, 2015 Search Committee, economist, 2015 Search Committee, Mid East/sociologist, 2015
Department of Sociology Target of Opportunity Committee, Member, 2018 Target of Opportunity Committee, Chair, 2015
Search Committee, demography, 2014 William Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, Advisory Board, 2019-
Social Science Research Institute Interim director, 2017-18 Advisory Committee, 2018- Office of the Vice President for Research Carnegie Prize Committee, 2018 Instructor, Brown-IE MBA Program, Political Economy of Development, 2015-.
University of New Mexico Department of Political Science Undergraduate Committee, member, 2013-14
Search Committee, chair, 2011-12; member 2013-13 Executive Committee, member, 2011-12 Mentor, McNair Scholars-Research Opportunities Program, 2011-12; 2012-13.
Department of Sociology
Director of Graduate Studies, July 2009-June 2010 Graduate Committee, member, 2006-2007; 2009-2010
Faculty/Student Presentation Series, faculty coordinator, 2006-2007 Undergraduate Committee, member, 2005-2006; 2007-2008, 2008-2009 Hiring Committee, member, 2005-2006
Latin American Studies Interdisciplinary Committee on Latin American Studies, member, 2005-2011 Grants and Awards Committee, member, 2010-11; 2012-13
Latin American and Iberian Institute Executive Committee, member, 2007-2010
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Yale University
Department of Sociology Dissertation Prize Committee, member, 2002-2003.
Junior Faculty Search Committee, member, 2001-2002 Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies:
Latin American Policy Seminar, coordinator, 2004-2005 Faculty Advisory Board, Caribbean Connections: Dominican Republic
Economic Growth Center Digital Library
Faculty Advisory Committee, member, 2004-2005
Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship Selection Committee, member, 2002-2004
Parents’ Weekend, speaker, 2002 American Sociological Association
Section on Economic Sociology Paper Session, the Economic Sociology of Development,
110th annual meetings, 2015 Thematic Session on High Road Development Strategies, co-organizer with Josh Whitford,
Columbia University, 107th annual meetings, 2012 Regular Session on Comparative Sociology, organizer, 106th annual meetings, 2011 Regular Session on Globalization, organizer,103rd annual meetings, 2008 Reinhard Bendix Award Committee, member, 2003
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Recruitment committee, member, 2011- Executive Council, member, 2009-15. Annual Meeting Program Committee 2008, member, 2007-2008 Latin America Travel Stipend Committee, member, 2006.
Latin American Studies Association
Bryce Wood Book Award, committee member, 2012-13 Co-organizer, politics and public policy panels, 2013 meetings Co-organizer, labor panels, 2012 meetings Organized Section on Labor, council member, 2010- Organized Section on Economics and Politics, co-chair, 2006-2010 Organized Section on Economics and Politics, council member, 2005-2006
Red de Economía Política de América Latina (REPAL)
Founding member
Steering Committee, 2014-2017
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Co-convener, Conference on New Knowledge Frontiers in the Political Economy of Latin America, Santiago de Chile, June 2014
Somos Un Pueblo Unido, Santa Fe, New Mexico Volunteer research and consulting, 2011- Center for a New Economy/Centro Para Una Economía Nueva, San Juan, Puerto Rico Growth Commission, member, 2016- Social Science Research Council
Guest speaker, Governing Global Production, Dissertation Proposal Development Fund,
Chaska, Minnesota, June 2, 2012. Faculty facilitator, International Predissertation Fellows’ Conference, Harriman, New York,
November 1-4, 2001. Selection Committee member, International Dissertation Fellowship Program, 2009-10. Research Director, Dissertation Proposal Development Fund, 2009, 2013. Faculty facilitator, International Dissertation Fellows’ Conference, Memphis, Tennessee,
October 15-20, 2009. Selection Committee member, Dissertation Proposal Development Fund, 2009-12.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Course Level
Bureaucracy and Regulation (Brown) Graduate Caribbean and Central American Politics (Miami) Undergraduate
Comparative Development (Brown) Undergraduate Comparative Historical Sociology (Brown) Graduate
Comparative Politics (UNM) Graduate Comparative Political Economy (UNM, Yale) Undergraduate & Graduate Comparative Research Workshop (Yale) Graduate Comparing Nations (UNM) Graduate
Complex Organizations (UNM) Graduate Contemporary American Society (Yale) Undergraduate
Corruption and Development (Yale) Undergraduate & Graduate Dynamics of Global Change (UNM) Undergraduate
Global Issues (UNM) Undergraduate Introduction to Comparative Politics (Miami) Undergraduate Introduction to Latin American Studies (UNM) Undergraduate Methods of Sociological Inquiry (Wisconsin, UIC) Undergraduate Political Sociology (UIC) Undergraduate Politics & Markets in Latin America (UNM) Graduate Power, Organizations, Culture (UNM) Graduate Regimes and States (Miami, Yale) Undergraduate Research Methods (UNM, Brown) Graduate Social Forces: Introduction to Sociology (Brown) Undergraduate Social Problems (UIC, Yale, UNM, Brown) Undergraduate
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Sociology of Development (Yale) Undergraduate & Graduate Urban Society in Latin America (UNM) Undergraduate
MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association American Political Science Association Latin American Studies Association Population Association of America Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
GRADUATE STUDENT PLACEMENT AND ADVISEMENT Student Position Nafisa Halim, UNM PhD Research Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health Steve Samford, UNM PhD Assistant Professor, Organizational Studies, University of Michigan Peter Catron, UNM MA Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Washington Jessica Garrick, UNM MA Assistant Professor, Sociology, Southern Methodist University (Fall 2019-) Warren Thompson, UNM MA PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, Anthropology I currently serve as principal advisor to eight sociology PhD students and serve on the dissertation committees of several more in political science and sociology. FOREIGN LANGUAGES Spanish RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Comparative Sociology: Political, Economic, Organizational