Sociology
Department
Social
Sciences and Media Studies Bldg.
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430
(805) 893-3324 fax
email: jhsprague[at] umail.ucsb.edu
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Education
PhD Candidate in Sociology,
University of California, Santa Barbara, US.
2011 M.A.
Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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
SOC 1 Introduction to Sociology, GLOBL 124/SOC
138 Global Conflict, SOC 130LA Development and Social Change in Latin America,
SOC 130ME Development and Social Change in the Middle East, SOC 130ST Special Topics in Third World Studies, SOC
131 Political Sociology, SOC 134R Sociology of Revolutions, SOC 146-1
Globalization and Culture, SOC 172 Crime and Delinquency, SOC 185D Theories of
Race and Ethnic Relations.
Office hours
Winter Quarter 2012:
Tuesdays 930-1030AM at Caje & Thusdays 930-1030AM in
room 3021 of the SSMS buildng.
Publications
Books/Projects
2012 Paramilitarism and the Assault on
Democracy in Haiti (New York: Monthly
Review Press).
Dissertation Project: The Caribbean and Global Capitalism. (Committee:
Dr. William I. Robinson, Dr. Christopher McAuley, &
Dr. Kevin B. Anderson). forthcoming.
Articles
in Academic Publications
2013
National and Transnational Class Relations and Formations, forthcoming.
2013 A Critical
Global-Transnational Studies: In Practice and Theory, (with Andrew Michael
Lee) forthcoming.
2011 Empire, Global
Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri, Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Vol. 29.
P. 187-207.
2010 Statecraft in the
Global Financial Crisis: An Interview with Kanishka Jayasuriya, Journal of Critical Globalisation
Studies. No. 3, P. 127-138.
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.
Republished, The Jean Dominique Murder Investigation: An
Interview with Mario Joseph and Brain Concannon, in 3-part serial format with Hati Libert 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.
Edited Volumes
2013 Paramilitarism in
21st Century Latin America and the Caribbean. (with Jasmin Hristov)
forthcoming.
(w/ Chapters by Robert Gay, Eva Golinger,
Simon Granovsky-Larsen, Jasmin
Hristov, Julie Mazzei, Jenny Pearce, Adrienne Pine,
and Jeb Sprague)
Book Reviews
2011 Review of Peter Dicken, Global Shift, Fifth
Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (2007). Journal
of Sociology. Vol. 47, No. 2. P. 219-221.
2011 Review of Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Migrants for Export: How the Philippine
State Brokers Labor to the World (2010). Science &
Society. Vol. 75, No. 3. P. 442-444.
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.
Encyclopedia Entries
2012 Transnational State, in George Rizter, eds,
Wiley-Blackwell
Encyclopedia of
Globalization, (Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell).
Chapters In Books
2013 Elite-Networking and Paramilitary Political
Violence in 21st Century Haiti, in Jasmin
Hristov and Jeb Sprague (eds),
Paramilitarism
in 21st Century Latin America and the Caribbean. forthcoming.
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. (w/ Wadner Pierre)
Other Analytical/Editorial Works (a partial listing)
2011 Haitis Movement
from Below Endures, Al Jazeera; Published
in espaol Sobrevive el movimiento
de los pobres en Hait, TeleSUR.
2011 Impunity for Venezuelas Big
Landowners, Amrica Latina en Movimiento
(w/ Joe Emersberger).
Published in espaol La
impunidad de los grandes terratenientes, Amrica Latina en Movimiento.
2010 Dual Crises of
Globalization: Arizona and the Gulf of Mexico, Transnational Institute (w/ Cesar
Rodriguez). Republished in Correo del Orinoco, June 2010, No. 17, P.8. and in Z Magazine, July 2010, Vol. 23, No. 27; Published in espaol: La doble crisis de la globalizacin: el Golfo de Mxico
y Arizona, Transnational Institute; Published in chinese: 全球化的双重危机：从墨西哥湾到亚利桑那, Utopia/ wu you zhi xiang.
2010 Haitis Classquake, Znet; Published in espaol: Hait, un desastre clasista, Rebelin.
2006
Invisible Violence: Ignoring Murder
in Post-Coup Haiti, FAIR. July-August 2006.
Other
Honors and Awards
2011 Distinguished Graduate Student Award, California
Sociological Association.
2008 Project Censored Award, Department of Sociology,
Sonoma State
University.*
Research
Funding and Financial Support
2012 Conference Travel Grant, UCSB Graduate Student
Association.
2011 Departmental
Research Grant Award, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara.
2009 Peace
Studies Program Funding, Florida Atlantic University.
2008 Department
of Sociology Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2004 Student Union Life and Development Travel Grant,
California State University of Long Beach.
Academic Conference Presentations
2012 National and Transnational Class Relations and
Formations, Pacific
Sociology Association (PSA).
2012 Elite Networking and Paramilitary Political
Violence in Haiti, UCSB Global Studies Conference.
2011 Paramilitarism and the Role of National and
Transnational Social Forces, 1st Conference on Global Capitalism and Transnational Class
Formation, Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic.
2010 Empire,
Global Capitalism, and Theory presentation by invitation, California Sociological Association
(CSA) 2010 Annual Meeting.
2009 Emergent
Transnational State and a Method for Study. Global Studies
Association (GSA). Florida Atlantic University, 9 May.
2006 Organized
Labor and Political Conflict in the Caribbean, South-West Labor
Studies Association. University of California, Los Angeles.
Invited Public Presentations, Talks, Interviews, etc (a partial
listing)
2012 Book
Speaking Tour in September.
2011 Interviewed on the
radio show Sojurner Truth. KPFK, Los Angeles.
2011 Interviewed
on the Human Rights Radio Show.
KPFT, Houston.
2011 Interviewed on the radio show Morning Mix.
KPFA, Berkeley.
2011 Interviewed on the
radio show Haiti:
The Struggle Continues. WBAI, New York.
2011 Interviewed
on the Anti-War
Radio Show. KAOS, Olympia.
2011 Guest
Lecturer for Nadege Clitandre,
PhD. Global Studies, University of California Santa Barbara.
2011 Elite and Paramilitary Networking in Haiti,
Talk on Panel hosted by the The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies and the University
of California Haiti Initiative (UCHI).
2011 Guest Lecturer for Avery Gordon, PhD.
Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara.
2010 Guest
Lecturer for Claudine Michel, PhD. Black Studies, University of California
Santa Barbara.
2010 Guest
Lecturer for Avery Gordon, PhD. Sociology, University of California Santa
Barbara.
2010 March 4th and the
Nationwide Student-Worker Movement, presentation by invitation, symposium on
Continuing the Struggle: Where does the student-worker movement go from here?
University of California Santa Barbara, 7 April.
2010 The
Quake in Haiti, presentation by invitation, for Sociology Course
Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities, University of California
Santa Barbara, 4 February.
2010 The
Quake in Haiti, discussant by invitation, panel on the earthquake in Haiti
hosted by the Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa
Barbara, 28 January.
2009 Contemporary
Struggles From Below at UC Santa Cruz, NYU/The New School, and Chicagos Republic
Window and Doors Factory. Defending, not Defunding, the University, University
of California Santa Barbara, 14 October.
2009 Recent
history in Haiti, discussant by invitation on Haiti Panel hosted by the
Department of Black Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, 21 May.
2009 Researching
Paramilitarism, presentation by invitation, brownbag luncheon at Orfalea Center, University of California Santa Barbara, 18
April.
2009 Haiti and the Resource Starved Popular
Democracy, presentation by invitation, symposium on Radical Politics in the
Caribbean Panel, University of California Santa Barbara, 9 April.
2009 Interviewed
on the radio show Beneath the Surface. KPFK, Los Angeles.
2008 Globalization
and the Emergent Transnational State. Presentation at Historical Materialism
Research Group (HMRG), University of Manchester, UK, 27 August.
2008 Widening
the Circle of Solidarity: A Talk on Grassroots Media Organizing. Presentation by invitation, Grenadier Books/Hati Libert,
Brooklyn, NY, 5 June.
2007 Guest
Lecturer at Peace Conference, University of Vancouver Canada
2007 Guest
Lecturer for Wallis Andrew, PhD. Modern Language and Literature, Whittier
Liberal Arts
College.
2007 Interviewed on the radio show
Uprising Radio,
KPFK, Los Angeles, September 4. Human Rights and Privatization in Haiti.
2007 Interviewed on the radio show
Konbit Lakay with Yves Dayiti.
WPFP, Washington D.C.
2007 Interviewed
twice on the radio show Haiti: The Struggle Continues. WBAI, New York.
2007
The Unreported War Against the Poor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Viento y Agua Coffee House, Long Beach, CA, 26 January.
2007 Interviewed
twice on the radio show Flashpoints, KPFA, San Francisco.
2006 Guest
Lecturer for Lise Sedresz,
PhD. Latin American History, California State University of Long Beach.
Services and Positions
2010-2011 Steering
Committee, University
of California Haiti Initiative.
2008-2009 Member of
editorial board, Global Studies Associations (GSA) North
America.
2008- Rank and File Member of UAW 2865
Journalist
Reports and Monographs (a partial listing)
2010 United States/Mexico: Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona
Desert Crossing, IPS (Espaol version here).
2009 United
States: Activists, Big Business Converge on G20 Meet, IPS (Espaol version here).
2009 Pittsburgh
G20 - Part One, Part Two, Part Three, IPS (alternative link).
2009 Haiti:
Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread, IPS (Espaol version here).
2009 Haiti:
Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist, IPS. (w/ Wadner
Pierre).
2008 Anti-Hunger
Protests Rock Haiti, NACLA (w/ Nazaire
St. Fort).
2008 Haiti:
Once-Vibrant Farming Sector in Dire Straits, IPS (w/ Nazaire
St. Fort).
2007 Haiti:
Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege, IPS (w/
Wadner Pierre) (Espaol version here. *Received 2008 Project Censored Award).
2007 Haiti:
Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike Actions, IPS (w/ Wadner Pierre).
2007 Haiti:
Workers Protest Privatization Layoffs, IPS (w/ Wadner Pierre) (Espaol 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 (w/ Eunida
Alexandra).
2007 Haiti: Lame Ti Mancht Accused of
Role in Killing of Photojournalist, Narco News (Espaol
version here)(Franais version
here).
2006 A Lavalas Mayor in Hiding: An Interview with Mose Jean-Charles, Left Turn.
2006 Persecuted Haitian Photojournalist Speaks Out: Jean Ristil & Cit Soleil, Upside Down World (w/ Eric Feise).
Last Updated: January,
2012.
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