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


 

 

 

 

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    ÒEmergent Transnational State and a Method For Study.Ó forthcoming.

2010    ÒCinema and the Transnational Capitalist Class.Ó w/ Noah Zweig. forthcoming.

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

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

 

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.

 

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    ÒInvisible Violence: Ignoring Murder in Post-Coup HaitiFAIR. 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    ÒHaiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension WidespreadIPS.

2008     ÒAnti-Hunger Protests Rock HaitiNACLA.

2008     ÒHaiti: Once-Vibrant Farming Sector in Dire Straits.Ó IPS. (contributed to this piece)

2007     ÒHaiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of SiegeIPS. (Project Censored 2008)

2007     ÒHaiti: Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike ActionsIPS.

2007     ÒHaiti: Workers Protest Privatizatin LayoffsIPS.

2007     ÒEurope/Haiti: Singing for the PoorIPS.

2007     ÒDigging Through a History of Economic ViolenceJubilee USA.

2007     ÒHaiti: Mysterious prison Ailment Traced to U.S. RiceIPS.

 

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

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

2009    Presentation of ÒEmergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.Ó 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 ÒEmergent Transnational State and a Method For Study.Ó 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    ÒGlobalization RPG Simulation.Ó  Teaching tool developed for Soc 1 Introduction to Sociology.

 

 

 

Last Updated: May 11, 2009. 

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