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

2011 “Empire, Global Capitalism, and Theory: Reconsidering Hardt and Negri.” forthcoming.

2010 “Statecraft in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Kanishka Jayasuriya.” Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies.

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 Dominque Murder Investigation: An Interview with Mario Joseph and Brain Concannon” in 3-part serial format with Haïti Liberté 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 “Dual Crises of Globalization: Arizona and the Gulf of Mexico.” Transnational Institute. (w/ Cesar Rodriguez) (español version here)

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

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

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. (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 “United States/Mexico: Migrants Risk Everything in Arizona Desert Crossing.” IPS. (español version here)

2009 “United States: Activists, Big Business Converge on G20 Meet.” IPS. (español version here)

2009 “Pittsburgh G20 - Part One, Part Two, Part Three.” IPS. (alternative link)

2009 “Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread.” IPS. (español 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) (español 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) (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 (w/ Eunida Alexandra)

2006 “Persecuted Haitian Photojournalist Speaks Out: Jean Ristil & Cité Solely.” Upside Down World. (w/ Eric Feise)

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

2010 “March 4^th 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 earth quake 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 Chicago's 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 “Emergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.” Global Studies Association (GSA). Florida Atlantic University, 9 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: Part One, Part Two, Part Three,” presentation by invitation, symposium on “Radical Politics in the Caribbean Panel,” University of California Santa Barbara, 9 April.

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/Haïti Liberté, Brooklyn, NY, 5 June.

2007 “The Unreported War Against the Poor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.” Viento y Agua Coffee House, Long Beach, CA, 26 January.

2004 “Hearst Metrotone Newsreels and the Spanish Civil War,” presentation, panel discussion and chair on “The Spanish Civil War in Film and Newsreels,” 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.

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