Fellows

Andrew Barry
Geography, University of Oxford

Dr. Andrew Barry is Reader in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, a fellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, and the Academic Director of the University of Oxford’s graduate program in Nature, Society, and Environmental Policy. He is an editor for Economy and Society, International Political Sociology, Social Movement Studies, and is on the advisory board of the British Film Institute project on “Moving Images in the Public Sphere”. Dr. Barry’s research areas include political and economic geography, social and anthropological theory, and science and technology studies. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his interdisciplinary research interests in the political geography and economics of natural resources, and the role of the natural and physical sciences in political and economic life. His recent publications include The Technological Economy (Routledge, 2005), “Technological Zones” (European Journal of Social Theory, 2007), and “Logics of Interdisciplinarity”, (Economy and Society, 2008).

Robert Brenner
History, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Robert P. Brenner is Professor of History, and the Director for Social Theory and Comparative History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is an editor of Against the Current, and New Left Review. He was Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research (1981-1982), Visiting Professor in Social Studies at Harvard University (1983), and Visiting Professor in the Faculty Seminar in the Social Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1983). Dr. Brenner’s research areas include early modern European history, economic, social and religious history, agrarian history, social theory, and Marxism. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in economic history and global financial crises. His recent publications include The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn: 1945-2005 (Verso, 2006), Property and Progress: The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-sustaining Growth (Verso, 2009), and “What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good for the America: The Origins of the Current Crisis” (2009).

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Wendy Brown
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Wendy Brown is Heller Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the Interim Director of the Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality (2005-2006) for the UC Berkeley Gender Consortium, a Senior Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, a Visiting Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a UC Berkeley Humanities Fellow. Dr. Brown’s research areas include the history of political theory, 19th & 20th century continental theory, critical theory, and cultural theory. She brings to Rethinking Capitalism her research interests on the relationship of political sovereignty to global capital and other transnational forces, including religion, law, culture, and moral discourse. Her recent publications include Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics (Princeton, 2005), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton, 2006), States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (Princeton, 1995), and Politics Out of History (Princeton, 2001).

Dick Bryan
Political Economy, University of Sydney

Dr. Dick Bryan is Professor of Political Economy at University of Sydney. He is a convenor of the Australian Working Group on Financialization (AWGF), which draws scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds to discuss financial markets and institutions. He served in the Canberra economic bureaucracy. Dr. Bryan’s research areas include international financial markets, theories of money, globalization, Australian economic theory, and Marxism. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in international finance, financial derivatives, and securities –in particular, how they’re both transforming our understanding of economic processes and changing social relations. His recent publications include Capitalism with Derivatives: A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), “Financialization: Giving Labour and Capital a Financial Makeover” (Review of Radical Political Economy, 2009), and “Globalization and the World Financial Markets” (Ecodate, 2009).

Philip Goodchild
Religion and Philosophy, University of Nottingham

Dr. Philip Goodchild is Professor of Religion and Philosophy in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. He was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Christian Theology at St. Martin’s College, Lancaster. Dr. Goodchild’s research areas include contemporary continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, theology of money and theology of globalization. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in the theology of money, credit, and debt. His recent publications include Theology of Money (Duke University Press, 2009), “The Reasonableness of Philosophy of Religion” (in Contemporary Practice and Method in the Philosophy of Religion: New Essays, Continuum, 2008), “Truth and Utopia” (Telos, 2006), and “Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology” (in Theology and the Political: the New Debate, Duke University Press, 2005).

Karen Ho
Anthropology, University of Minnesota

Dr. Karen Z. Ho is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She was a former business analyst at an investment bank. Dr. Ho’s research areas include cultural studies of finance capital, finance, globalization, capitalism, ethnography, feminist studies, political economy, and comparative race and ethnicity. She brings to Rethinking Capitalism her research interests in applying anthropological methods to Wall Street investment banking culture as an insight into the role of financial institutions in the development of global capitalism. Her recent publications include “Situating Global Capitalisms: A View from Wall Street Investment Banks” (Cultural Anthropology, 2005), Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Duke University Press, 2009), “Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street’s Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of American Corporations” (American Anthropologist, 2009), and “Finance” (in Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Routledge, 2010).

Karin D. Knorr Cetina
Anthropology, University of Chicago/Sociology, University of Constance, Germany

Dr. Karin D. Knorr Cetina is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Constance, Germany, and Georege Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and of the Social Sciences in the College at the University of Chicago. She was awarded the Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science (2009). Dr. Knorr Cetina’s research areas include economic anthropology and sociology, the anthropology of science, knowledge and technology, globalization and global society studies, contemporary social theory, and qualitative methods. She brings to Rethinking Capitalism her research interests in global microstructures and social studies of finance. Her recent publications include “How Are Global Markets Global? The Architecture of a Flow World” (in Knorr Cetina & Prada (eds.), The Sociology of Financial Markets, 2005) “Microglobalization” (in Frontiers of Globalization Research: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, Springer, 2008) “The Synthetic Situation: Interactionism for a Global World” (Interaction, 2009).

Nelson Lichtenstein
History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Nelson Lichtenstein is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy. He has received a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship (1990), was named a senior fellow to the National Endowment for the Humanities (1993), was awarded the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award (2003), and was elected to membership in the Society of American Historians (2007). Dr. Lichtenstein’s research areas include U.S labor history and political economy. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in the history of capitalist discourse (on both the left and right) and an analysis of the role of manufacturing enterprises in the world economy. His recent publications include State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton University Press, 2002), American Capitalism: The Face if 21st Century Capitalism ((ed.) New Press, 2006), and The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business (Metropolitan Books, 2009).

Michael MacDonald
Political Science, Williams College

Dr. Michael MacDonald is Frederick L. Schuman Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at Williams College. He was the Chair of the Political Science Department at Williams College (1994-2001). He received the Fulbright Scholar Program Lecturing and Research Award for the University of the Western Cape (1995). He was awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for School Teachers (1994, 1998). Dr. MacDonald’s research areas include terrorism in comparative perspective, international relations, nationalism, and the politics of divided societies –in particular, South Africa and Northern Ireland. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interest in the intersection between economic and racial power, cultural analysis, and political theory. His recent publications include Why Race Matters in South Africa (Harvard University Press, 2006) “The Political Economy of Identity Politics,” (The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2004), and Children of Wrath: Political Violence in Northern Ireland (Polity Press 1986).

Mahmood Mamdani
Government, Columbia University

Dr. Mahmood Mamdani is the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He was a professor at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania (1973-79), Makerere University in Uganda (1980-1993), and the University of Cape Town (1996-1999). He was listed as one of the “Top 20 Public Intellectuals” by Foreign Policy (US) and Prospect (UK) magazine in 2008. From 1998 to 2002 he served as President of Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA). Dr. Mamdani’s research areas include the study of African history and politics, a comparative study of colonialism since 1452, the history of civil war and genocide in Africa, the Cold War and the War on Terror, and the history and theory of human rights. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in the intersection between politics and culture, the modern state, and the colonial subject. His recent publications include Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (Pantheon 2009), Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror (Pantheon, 2008), and When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton University Press, 2001).

Randy Martin
Art and Public Policy, New York University

Dr. Randy Martin is Professor and Chair of Art and Public Policy, and Director of the graduate program in Arts Politics. He has studied, taught, and performed in dance, theater, and clowning in the United States and abroad. He served as Professor and Chair of Social Science at Pratt Institute, Associate Dean of faculty at Tisch School of the Arts, and as an Editor of the journal Social Text. Dr. Martin’s research areas include the intersection of arts and politics, U.S. Communism, sport, and academic labor. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in Marxism, logics of risk management, socialism, and the political economy of finance and war. His recent publications include On Your Marx: Rethinking Socialism and the Left (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics (Duke University Press, 1998), and Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self (Bergin & Harvey, 1990).

Bill Maurer
Anthropology, University of California Irvine
Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (IMTFI)

Dr. Bill Maurer is Professor and Chair of Anthropology, and Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine. He was Visiting Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University (2002), a recipient of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant for the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion (2008), a National Science Foundation grant (2005), and a UC Humanities Research Institute fellowship (2000). Dr. Maurer’s research areas include law, property, money and finance, particularly new and experimental financial and currency forms and their legal implications. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in the anthropology of money and finance. His recent publications include Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States (Russell Sage Press, 2006), Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood (ed., Columbia University Press, 2006), and “Repressed Futures: Financial Derivatives’ Theological Unconscious” (Economy and Society, 2002).

Prabhat Patnaik
Economics, Jawaharial Nehru University

Dr. Prabhat Patnaik is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He attended Oxford University in 1966 on a Rhodes scholarship. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Kerala State Planning Board, and was a member of a United Nations appointed task force to recommend reforms of the global financial system (2008). Dr. Patnaik’s research areas include macroeconomics and political economy. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests on the limits of neoliberal economic policies, Marxist economics, and theory of the value of money. His recent publications include Accumulation and Stability Under Capitalism (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1997), The Retreat to Unfreedom (Tulika Books, 2003) and The Value of Money (Columbia University Press, 2008).

Darel Paul
Political Science, Williams College

Dr. Darel E. Paul is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Williams College. He has appeared as a guest on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” and “Fox Business” with Brian Sullivan (2008). He is a manuscript referee for several journals, including Review of International Political Economy, Geopolitics, and New Political Science. Dr. Paul’s research areas include political economy, international politics, the sociology of globalization, and political geography. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in Marxist theory, culture and economics, and global finance. His recent publications include “Liberal Perspectives on the Global Political Economy” (in The International Studies Association Compendium Project, Blackwell Publishing, 2010), Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2005), and “The Siren Song of Geopolitics: Towards a Gramscian Account of the Iraq War” (in Geopolitics, SAGE Publications, 2009).

Kristin Peterson
Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Dr. Kristin Peterson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She is national co-chair for The Association of Concerned African Scholars and is the recipient of an NSF grant on AIDS related politics. Research includes, but is not limited to, analysis of AIDS politics that takes the global restructuring of the nation-state, drug market, and various forms of activism as key points of departure. Dr. Peterson is currently writing on the ways in which state privitization, both within the US and in Africa, has funded and fueled experimental research in HIV that has brought about a new science-humanitarian-development industry. She brings to Rethinking Capitalism her insights into the new forms of accumulation rising out of future HIV research that help structure the global humanitarian industry and its corporate and military alliances. Recent publications include “Rethinking Health Policies: AIDS, the US, and Africa.” Association of Concerned Africa Scholars Bulletin. Volume 74, 2006 and “Benefit Sharing for All?: Bioprospecting NGOs, Intellectual Property Rights, New Governmentalities.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 24:1 (May 2001): 78-91.

Paolo Quattrone
Accounting, IE Business School

Dr. Paolo Quattrone is Professor of Accounting and Management Control at IE Business School. He is an Honorary Senior Research Associate for the Italian Studies at Oxford Program at the University of Oxford, and Associate Fellow to The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (formerly, James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization) at the University of Oxford. He is a book editor for the European Accounting Review, and associate editor for the British Accounting Review. He recently won a Fulbright New Century Scholar Award (2009-2010). Dr. Quattrone’s research areas include the innovative study of accounting and management techniques. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in the analysis of the visual and rhetorical techniques that foster the spread and success of management, governance and accountability practices –specifically in large multinational corporations, universities, and religious organizations. His recent publications include “Books to be Practiced: Memory, the Power of the Visual and the Success of Accounting” (Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2009), “We Have Never Been Post-Modern: On the Search for Management Accounting Theory”, (The European Accounting Review, 2009), and “The Jesuit Ordering: In Between the Imaginative Force of the Art of Memory and the Organizational Power of Accounting Practices” (in Boute and Småberg, Devising Order: Socio-Religious Models, Rituals, and the Performativity of Practice, 2009).

Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson is a science fiction writer who earned his PhD in English from the University of California, San Diego in 1982. His dissertation focused on the novels of science fiction author, Philip K. Dick. Robinson’s work spans more than thirty years of output. He has presented at various writers’ conferences and is deeply fascinated by the ecological issues we face in our current use of natural resources. He is best known for his mars trilogy, a series of books that begin by chronicling the first colonization efforts on the planet Mars. Robinson understands the genre of science fiction as what exposes both the histories we cannot directly experience and the pasts that we will never know. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism a comparatists approach along with his humanist perspective about the welfare of the planet against the backdrop of capitalist enterprise, technology, and innovation.

Lynn Stout
Corporate and Securities Law, University of California Los Angeles

Lynn Stout is Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Eaton Vance family of mutual funds, as an Adjunct Researcher at the Rand Corporation, and on the Aspen Institute’s Corporate Value Strategy Group. She has served as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, was chair of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Law and Economics, and AALS Section on Business Associations, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association. Her research areas include corporate governance, the theory of the corporation, stock markets, finance theory, financial derivatives, moral behavior and economic and behavioral analysis of law. She brings to Rethinking Capitalism her research interests on corporate and securities law. Her recent publications include “Fiduciary Duties for Activist Shareholders” (Stanford Law Review, 2008), “Why We Should Stop Teaching Dodge v. Ford” (Virginia Law & Business Review, 2008), “The Mythical Benefits of Shareholder Control” (Virginia Law Review, 2007), and “Inefficient Markets and the New Finance” (Journal of Financial Transformation, 2005).

Shyam Sunder
Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale University

Dr. Shyam Sunder is the James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics, and Finance at the Yale School of Management, Professor in the Department of Economics and Professor at the Yale Law School. He served as the President (2006-2007) and Director of Research (1988-1990) for the American Accounting Association. He won the Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award for the American Institute of CPA’s and American Accounting Association in 1982 and 1998. Dr. Sunder’s research areas include experimental finance, experimental macroeconomics and accounting theory. He brings to Rethinking Capitalism his research interests in the dissemination of information in security markets, statistical theory of valuation, and the design of electronic markets. His recent publications include “Price Bubbles sans Dividend Anchors: Evidence from Laboratory Stock Markets” (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007), “Learning Competitive Equilibrium” (The Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2008), and “Three Minimal Market Institutions: Theory and Experimental Evidence” (in Games and Economic Behavior, forthcoming).

Richard Walker
Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Richard Walker’s best known work is in economic geography, especially The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth (Blackwell, 1989), with Michael Storper – one of the most cited books in the field. Other writing in this vein includes, “The geography of production” In Sheppard & Barnes, eds. Companion to Economic Geography (2000) and “Putting Capital in its Place: Globalization and the Prospects for Labor” Geo-forum (1999). Professor Walker is also known as an urban geographer, and his next book recounts the making of urban landscape of the Bay Area. It will be titled City at Bay: The Making of the San Francisco-Oakland Metropolis. In this work, Walker picks up on themes he explored in early writings on suburbanization and in articles such as “Landscape and city life: four ecologies of residence in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Ecumene (1995).

Graham Ward
Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester, England

Dr. Graham Ward is Professor of Contextual Theology and Ethics at The University of Manchester, and head of School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. Professor Ward’s current research encompasses Christian social ethics, political theory and cultural hermeneutics and he is the co-director of the Centre for Religion and Political Culture. Professor Ward began his study of religion by focusing upon issues concerning Christian theology and representation. Earlier investigations into the theology of language (in Karl Barth, for example, or Jacques Derrida) gave way to concerns with the relationship between rhetoric and belief. Of late, Professor Ward has turned his critical eye toward the question of what makes a belief believable? This has led to develop an analysis of the ways in which theology represents its thinking and the wider cultural context within which that representation takes place. Publications include Cities of God (Routledge, 2000), True Religion (Blackwell, 2002), Christ and Culture (Blackwell, 2005), Political Discipleship (Baker Press, 2006) and Religion and Political Thought co-edited with Dr. Michael Hoelzl (Continuum, 2006).