Christopher Chase-Dunn
Department of Sociology University of California-Riverside, Riverside,
CA. 92521-0419 USA
(951)827-2062, Fax (951) 827-7394, E-mail: chriscd@ucr.edu
Christopher Chase-Dunn is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director
of the Institute for Research on
World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. He received his
Ph.D in Sociology from Stanford
University in 1975.
Chase-Dunn has done crossnational quantitative studies on the effects of
dependence on foreign investment, and he studies cities and settlement systems.
His recent research focuses on intersocietal systems, including both the modern
global political economy and earlier regional world-systems. One project
examines the causes of polity expansion and settlement growth (and decline) in several
regional world-systems as well as the contemporary process of global state
formation. His research has supported by the National Science Foundation.
Chase-Dunn is the founder and former editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research.
and the Series Editor of two book series published by
the Johns Hopkins University Press. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2002 he was
elected President of the Research Committee on Economy and Society (RC02) of
the International Sociological Association.
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