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PEOPLE >> Faculty
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Christopher Chase-Dunn
Distinguished professor in Sociology
Office: Watkins 1221
Phone:
951-827-2063
E-mail:
Christopher.chase-dunn@ucr.edu
Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He is organizing an institute for Research on World-Systems. Chase-Dunn has done crossnational quantitative studies on the effects of dependence on foreigh investment, and he studies cities and settlement systems as superorganisms. His recent research focuses on intersocietal systems, including both the modern global political economy and earlier regional world-systems. One project examines the causes of empire expansion and urban growth (and decline) in the Afroeurasian world-system over the last 4000 years. His study of economic and political globalization in the modern world-system over the past 200 years is supported by the National Science Foundation. Chase-Dunn is the founder and co-editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research
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