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

2010      ÒStatecraft in the Global Financial Crisis: A Discussion with Kanishka Jayasuriya.Ó forthcoming.

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

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

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      ÒHaitiÕs Classquake.Ó Znet. (espa–ol version here)

2006      ÒInvisible 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       ÒUnited States: Activists, Big Business Converge on G20 Meet.Ó IPS. (espa–ol version here)

2009        ÒPittsburgh G20 - Part One, Part Two, Part ThreeIPS.

2009        ÒHaiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread IPS. (espa–ol version here)

2009      ÒHaiti: Calls Mount to Free Lavalas Activist.Ó IPS.

2008     ÒAnti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti NACLA.

2008     ÒHaiti: Once-Vibrant Farming Sector in Dire Straits.Ó IPS.

2007     ÒHaiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege IPS. (espa–ol version here. Received 2008 Project Censored Award)

2007     ÒHaiti: Pain at the Pump Spurs Strike Actions IPS.

2007     ÒHaiti: Workers Protest Privatizatin LayoffsIPS. (espa–ol version here)

2007     ÒEurope/Haiti: Singing for the Poor IPS.

2007     ÒDigging Through a History of Economic ViolenceJubilee USA.

2007     ÒHaiti: Mysterious Prison Ailment Traced to U.S. Rice IPS

 

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

2009      ÒContemporary struggles from below at UC Santa Cruz, NYU/The New School, and Chicago's Republic Window and Doors Factory.Ó UCSB.

2009      ÒHaiti and the Resource Starved Popular Democracy.Ó Part One, Part Two, Part Three. Radical Politics in the Caribbean Panel, UCSB.

2009      ÒEmergent Transnational State and a Method for Study.Ó Global Studies Association (GSA), Florida Atlantic University.

2008      ÒEmergent Transnational State and a Method For Study.Ó Historical Materialism Research Group, University of Manchester, UK.

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

2007      ÒWidening the Circle of Solidarity: A Talk on Grassroots Media Organizing.Ó 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      ÒGlobalization RPG Simulation.Ó  Teaching tool developed for Soc 1 Introduction to Sociology.

 

 

 

Last Updated: January, 2010. 

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