World Society, Institutional Theory, and Globalization

I had the fortune of seeing some wonderful college friends this week, including the incomparable Ted Lieu.  As American politics goes wildly off the rails, Ted is a beacon of sanity.  He has be...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/ted-lieu-is-awesome-part-ii/

After a long break, I’m going to start blogging again. I stop blogging when I’m too far behind on various projects and commitments.  I’m not all the way caught up, but I’m finally gettin...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/back-again/

Lir (Cheng-Tong) Wang successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Forces There and Here: Global and Local Influence on Divorce and Child Marriage.”  The project came together very nic...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/dr-lir-wang-phd/

Congratulations to Louisa Roberts, who successfully defended her dissertation at Ohio State University this week:  “The Globalization of the Acceptance of Homosexuality:  Mass Opinion and Nat...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/louisa-roberts-phd/

Wonderful news:  Julia Lerch has just accepted an offer to join UCI as an Assistant Professor of Sociology! Julia is a new PhD from Stanford who does fascinating work on international education...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/julia-lerch-is-coming-to-uci/

The big news in our household is that Ann’s newest book is out! Tokens of Power: Rethinking War, by Ann Hironaka, (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Amazon link. This is Ann’s biggest book b...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2017/04/08/rethinking-war/

OK, just wrapped up winter quarter, including my big undergraduate class on globalization, with 250 students.  The post-quarter decrease in student emails and meetings is a pleasant relief. I ho...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2017/03/31/ted-lieu-is-awesome/

More great news:  Matt Pearce successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Macro – Macro Emergence: The Internet as a Cultural Institution.”  The project draws on world society theor...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2016/06/01/matt-pearce-earns-his-phd/

Another overdue news item: Natasha Miric successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Letting Nature Take Its Course? An Analysis of Global Institutional Conflict around the Proliferation o...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/dr-natasha-miric/

Beth Gardner earned her PhD at the end of Fall quarter!  Her dissertation is entitled “Speaking for the Public: How the Media Constructed Controversy and Consensus About Abortion from 1972 ...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2016/01/11/beth-gardner-defends/

The multitalented Matt Pearce has created a fantastic new Stata tool called “UCI Merge”, which facilitates the merging of cross-national datasets. Check it out:  https://github.com/mpearc...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/matt-pearces-uci-merge/

Rachael Russell successfully defended her dissertation last week! It will go down in history as one of the most memorable defenses ever.  Rachael was not only calm and composed under difficult q...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/dr-rachael-russell-phd/

The other big news this month is that Tricia Bromley was hired at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford. One look at her CV, and you’ll know why Stanford wanted Tricia back.  She has b...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/tricia-wins-academia/

First, some wonderful news:  Last week Soo-yong told me he was promoted to associate professor with tenure at Penn State! If anyone deserves tenure it is Soo-yong.  He is incredibly bright and ...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/soo-yong-byun-tenured-at-psu/

I’ve decided to get back to blogging again! I stopped mainly because I was feeling very much behind on things. I can’t say that I’m fully caught up — or even close to caught up — but I�...

https://worldpolity.wordpress.com/2015/05/16/back-from-the-salt-mines/