Jeb Sprague

Department of Sociology

2834 Ellison Hall

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

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Education

PhD/Graduate Student in Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, US.

2008 M.A. 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, 2009 Teaching Assistant (Introduction to Sociology), University of California, Santa Barbara. Sociology Department.

2009 Teaching Assistant (Crime and Delinquency), University of California, Santa Barbara. Sociology Department.

Publications

Articles in Academic Publications

2010 “Emergent Transnational State and a Method For Study.” forthcoming.

2010 “Cinema and the Transnational Capitalist Class.” w/ Noah Zweig. forthcoming.

2009 “Transnational Capitalist Class in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Leslie Sklair.” Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 4.

2007 “Haiti And The Jean Dominique Investigation: An Interview with Mario Joseph and Brian Concannon.” Journal of Haitian Studies. Fall 2007, Vol. 13, No. 2. P.136-150

Chapters In Books

2007 “Haiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege (Update).” in Peter Phillips and Andrew Roth (eds.), Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories, New York: Seven Stories Press. P.76-84.

Book Reviews

2009 Review of Jerry Harris, The Dialectics of Globalization: Economic and Political Conflict in a Transnational World (2008). Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 3.

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. Issue Vol. 41, No. 6.

Other Analytical and Scholarly Works

2006 “Invisible Violence: Ignoring Murder in Post-Coup Haiti.” FAIR. Issue Vol. July-August 2006.

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)

2009 “Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread.” IPS.

2008 “Anti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti.” NACLA.

2008 “Haiti: Once-Vibrant Farming Sector in Dire Straits.” IPS. (contributed to this piece)

2007 “Haiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege.” IPS. (Project Censored 2008)

2007 “Haiti: Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike Actions.” IPS.

2007 “Haiti: Workers Protest Privatizatin Layoffs.” IPS.

2007 “Europe/Haiti: Singing for the Poor.” IPS.

2007 “Digging Through a History of Economic Violence.” Jubilee USA.

2007 “Haiti: Mysterious prison Ailment Traced to U.S. Rice.” IPS.

Invited Public Presentations, Interviews, and Conference Presentations (a partial listing)

2009 Presentation of “Emergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.” Historical Materialism Research Group-University of California, Santa Barbara.

2009 Presentation of “Emergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.” Global Studies Association (GSA) 2009 North American Conference, Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton.

2009 Radical Politics in the Caribbean. April 2009. University of California, Santa Barbara.

2008 Presentation of “Emergent Transnational State and a Method For Study.” Historical Materialism Research Group-University of Manchester, UK.

2008 'Widening the Circle of Solidarity: A Talk on Grassroots Media Organizing'. Grenadier Books, Brooklyn, NY.

Services and Positions

2008 Member of editorial board, Global Studies Associations (GSA) North America.

Misc.

2008 “Globalization RPG Simulation.” Teaching tool developed for Soc 1 Introduction to Sociology.

Last Updated: May 11, 2009.

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