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 for Winter 2010:

Tueswdays 12:45pm-1:45pm and Thursdays 9:45-10:45am

In LSIT Lab Open Access Room 1006. This is on the ground floor of the Social Science and Media Studies Bldg.

Education

PhD/Graduate 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 130ME Development and Social Change in the Middle East, Soc 172 Crime and Delinquency, 185D Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations.

Publications

Articles in Academic Publications

2011 “Emergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.” forthcoming.

2010 “Statecraft in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Kanishka Jayasuriya.” forthcoming.

2009 “Transnational Capitalist Class in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Leslie Sklair.” Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 4. P. 499-507.

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

2010 Review of Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Fifth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (2007).

2009 Review of Jerry Harris, The Dialectics of Globalization: Economic and Political Conflict in a Transnational World (2008). Globalizations. Vol. 6, No. 2.

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 Works

2010 “Haiti’s Classquake.” Znet. (español version here)

2006 “Invisible Violence: Ignoring Murder in Post-Coup Haiti.” FAIR. 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 “United States: Activists, Big Business Converge on G20 Meet.” IPS. (español version here)

2009 “Pittsburgh G20 - Part One, Part Two, Part Three.” IPS.

2009 “Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread.” IPS. (español version here)

2009 “Haiti: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist.” IPS.

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

2008 “Haiti: Once-Vibrant Farming Sector in Dire Straits.” IPS.

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

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

2007 “Haiti: Workers Protest Privatizatin Layoffs.” IPS. (español version here)

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 “Contemporary struggles from below at UC Santa Cruz, NYU/The New School, and Chicago's Republic Window and Doors Factory.” UCSB.

2009 “Haiti and the Resource Starved Popular Democracy.” Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Radical Politics in the Caribbean Panel, UCSB.

2009 “Emergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.” Global Studies Association (GSA), Florida Atlantic University.

2008 “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.

2007 “Widening the Circle of Solidarity: A Talk on Grassroots Media Organizing.” Viento y Agua Coffee House, Long Beach, CA.

Services and Positions

2009- Member, American Sociological Association (ASA).

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: January, 2010.

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