Jeb
Sprague
Sociology
Department
Social
Sciences and Media Studies Bldg.
University
of California
Santa
Barbara, CA 93106-9430
(805)
886-0429 ph
(805)
893-3324 fax
email: jhsprague[at]
umail.ucsb.edu
university
web page: http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~jhsprague/
photo web
page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jhsprague
video web page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jebsprague#p/u
Office
Hours:
From June 21
to July 30, 2010
3021 SSMB,
Monday and Tuesdays, 3:45-4:45PM
Education
PhD Student
in Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, US.
2008 M.A.
International Political Economy (IPE), University of Manchester, UK.
2007 M.A. History,
California State University of Long Beach, US.
2004 B.A. History,
California State University of Long Beach, US.
Positions
2008- Teaching Assistant University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sociology Department.
Soc 101
Introduction to Sociology, Soc 130LA Development and Social Change in Latin
America, Soc 130ME Development and Social Change in the Middle East, Soc 134R
Sociology of Revolutions, Soc 146-1 Globalization and Culture, Soc 172 Crime
and Delinquency, 185D Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations.
Publications
Articles
in Academic Publications
2011 ÒEmergent Transnational State and a
Method for Study.Ó forthcoming.
2011 ÒEmpire, Global
Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri.Ó forthcoming.
2010 ÒStatecraft in
the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Kanishka Jayasuriya.Ó Journal
of Critical Globalisation Studies.
2009 ÒTransnational Capitalist
Class in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Leslie Sklair.Ó
Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 4. P. 499-507.
2007 ÒHaiti and the Jean Dominique
Investigation: An Interview with Mario Joseph and Brian Concannon.Ó Journal of Haitian Studies. Fall 2007,
Vol. 13, No. 2. P. 136-150.
Republished,
ÒThe Jean Dominque Murder Investigation: An Interview with Mario Joseph and
Brain ConcannonÓ in 3-part serial format with Ha•ti LibertŽ newsweekly.
Vol.3,No.19. November 25-December 2, 2009., Vol.3, No.20. December 2-8 2009.,
& Vol.3, No.21. December 9-15,2009.
Book
Reviews
2011 Review of Robyn Magalit
Rodriguez, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to
the World (2010). Science & Society.
2010 Review of Peter
Dicken, Global Shift, Fifth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the
World Economy (2007). Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies.
2009 Review of Jerry Harris, The
Dialectics of Globalization: Economic and Political Conflict in a Transnational
World (2008).
Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 2. P. 319.
2008 Review of Peter Hallward, Damming
the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (2008), Randall Robinson, An
Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President (2007), and Alex Dupuy, The
Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti, and the International
Community (2006). NACLA
Report on the Americas. November-December 2008. Vol. 41, No. 6. P.
46-47.
Other
Analytical Works
2010 ÒDual Crises of Globalization:
Arizona and the Gulf of Mexico.Ó Transnational Institute. (w/ Cesar
Rodriguez) (espa–ol version here)
2010 ÒHaitiÕs Classquake.Ó
Znet. (espa–ol version here)
2006 ÒInvisible Violence: Ignoring Murder in Post-Coup
Haiti.Ó FAIR. July-August 2006.
Chapters
In Books
2007 ÒHaiti: Poor Residents of
Capital Describe a State of Siege (Update).Ó in Peter
Phillips and Andrew Roth (eds.), Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories, New
York: Seven Stories Press. P. 76-84. (w/ Wadner Pierre)
Other
Honors
and Awards
2008 Project Censored
Award, Department of Sociology, Sonoma State University.
Research
Funding and Financial Support
2009 Peace Studies Program
Funding. Florida Atlantic University.
2008 Sociology
Department Fellowship. University of California, Santa
Barbara.
2004 Student Union Life & Development
Travel Grant. California State
University of Long Beach.
Works
Translated
Professional
Journalism
2007- Inter Press Service.
[see below]
Journalist Reports and Monographs (a partial listing)
2010 ÒUnited States/Mexico: Migrants Risk Everything in
Arizona Desert Crossing.Ó IPS. (espa–ol version here)
2009 ÒUnited States: Activists, Big Business Converge on
G20 Meet.Ó IPS. (espa–ol version here)
2009 ÒPittsburgh G20
- Part One, Part Two, Part Three.Ó IPS.
(alternative link)
2009 ÒHaiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension
Widespread.Ó IPS. (espa–ol version here)
2009 ÒHaiti: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist.Ó
IPS. (w/ Wadner Pierre)
2008 ÒAnti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti.Ó NACLA. (w/ Nazaire
St. Fort)
2008 ÒHaiti: Once-Vibrant Farming Sector in Dire Straits.Ó IPS. (w/
Nazaire St. Fort)
2007 ÒHaiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of
Siege.Ó IPS. (w/ Wadner Pierre) (espa–ol version here. Received 2008
Project Censored Award)
2007 ÒHaiti: Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike Actions.Ó IPS. (w/ Wadner
Pierre)
2007 ÒHaiti: Workers Protest Privatization Layoffs.Ó
IPS. (w/ Wadner
Pierre) (espa–ol version here)
2007 ÒEurope/Haiti: Singing for the Poor.Ó IPS.
2007 ÒDigging Through a History of
Economic Violence.Ó Jubilee USA.
2007 ÒHaiti: Mysterious Prison Ailment Traced to U.S. Rice.Ó IPS (w/ Eunida
Alexandra)
2006 ÒPersecuted Haitian
Photojournalist Speaks Out: Jean Ristil & CitŽ Solely.Ó Upside
Down World. (w/ Eric Feise)
Invited Public Presentations, Interviews, and Conference
Presentations (a partial listing)
2010 ÒMarch 4th
and the Nationwide Student-Worker Movement,Ó presentation by invitation,
symposium on ÒContinuing the Struggle: Where does the student-worker movement
go from here?Ó University of California Santa Barbara, 7 April.
2010 ÒThe Quake in Haiti,Ó
presentation by invitation, for Sociology Course ÒEnvironmental Justice and
Sustainable Communities,Ó University of California Santa Barbara, 4 February.
2010 ÒThe Quake in Haiti,Ó
discussant by invitation, panel on the earth quake in Haiti hosted by the
Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 28
January.
2009 ÒContemporary
struggles from below at UC Santa Cruz, NYU/The New School, and Chicago's
Republic Window and Doors Factory.Ó Defending, not Defunding, the
University, University of California Santa Barbara, 14 October.
2009 ÒRecent history in
Haiti,Ó discussant by invitation on ÒHaiti PanelÓ
hosted by the Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa
Barbara, 21 May.
2009 ÒEmergent Transnational
State and a Method for Study.Ó Global Studies Association
(GSA). Florida Atlantic University, 9 May.
2009 ÒResearching
Paramilitarism,Ó presentation by invitation, brownbag luncheon at Orfalea
Center, University of California Santa Barbara, 18 April.
2009 ÒHaiti and the
Resource Starved Popular Democracy: Part One, Part Two, Part Three,Ó
presentation by invitation, symposium on ÒRadical Politics in the
Caribbean Panel,Ó University of California Santa Barbara, 9 April.
2008 ÒGlobalization and the
Emergent Transnational State.Ó presentation at Historical Materialism
Research Group (HMRG), University of
Manchester, UK, 27 August.
2008 ÒWidening the Circle of
Solidarity: A Talk on Grassroots Media Organizing.Ó presentation
by invitation, Grenadier Books/Ha•ti LibertŽ, Brooklyn, NY, 5 June.
2007 ÒThe Unreported War
Against the Poor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Ó Viento y Agua Coffee House, Long Beach,
CA, 26 January.
2004 ÒHearst Metrotone
Newsreels and the Spanish Civil War,Ó presentation, panel discussion and chair
on ÒThe Spanish Civil War in Film and Newsreels,Ó section at the Film & History Conference
in Dallas, Texas. 13 November.
Services and Positions
2010- Graduate Liaison, UCHI-UCSB (University of California
Haiti Initiative)
2009- Member, American
Sociological Association (ASA).
2008- Member of editorial
board, Global Studies Associations (GSA) North America.
Last
Updated: April, 2010.
See
link page here.