TERENCE K. HOPKINS CURRICULUM VITA

Education:

New York University, B.A., cum laude, 1952
Columbia University, Ph.D., Sociology, 1959

POSITIONS:

Instructional:

Columbia University, Instructor to Associate Professor, Sociology, 1956-70.

SUNY-Binghamton, Professor, 1970-

Various visiting appointments in this country or abroad.

Research:

Bureau of Applied Social Research (Columbia), 1952-70.
Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical System, and Civilizations (SUNY-Binghamton), 1975-.
(Various visiting appointments in this country and abroad.)

Administrative (SUNY):

Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology (since 1971-93).
Member, Executive Board, Fernand Braudel Center (since 1975).

Miscellaneous:

Recipient of grants, fellowships, etc. (since 1958) from various agencies (SSRC, ACLS, Fulbright, CRSS, NSF, etc.); currently from NSF.

Member, editorial boards, etc.: have served on several, currently on Review's; reader for several publishers, journals, edited series, foundations.

Scholarly association offices: some sixteen over the years; none at present; most recent, Chair of the ASA's Distinguished Scholarship Award Committee for two years (1980, 1981).

Publications:

"Note on the Concept of Hegemony," Review, XIII, No. 3, Summer 1990.

"1886-l986: Beyond Haymarket?" (with G. Arrighi and I. Wallerstein), Review, XII, 2, Spr. 1989, 191-206.

"Dilemmas of Antisystemic Movements," (with G. Arrighi and I. Wallerstein) Social Research, LIII, 1 Spring 1986, 185-206.

"Theoretical Space and Space for Theory in World-Historical Social Science," (with G. Arrighi) in N. Wiley, ed., The Marx-Weber Debate (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1986).

"The Liberation of Class Struggle?" (G. Arrighi and I. Wallerstein), Review, X, 3, Win. 1987, 403-424.

"Commodity Chains in the World-Economy Prior to 1800," (T.K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein) Review, X, 1, Sum. 1986, 157-170.

"Comparing Downturns: Some Questions of Method," (T.K. Hopkins and I. Wallerstein), Cahiers du Gemdev, No. 7, Mars 1986, 7-21.

Books, research monographs, edited volumes: about a dozen, such as Processes of the World-System (ed., with I. Wallerstein), Sage, 1980.

World-Systems Analysis (with I. Wallerstein) Sage, 1982.

Chapters, reprinted articles, translations: about eighteen, such as
"Structural Transformation of the World-Economy" (with I. Wallerstein), Ch. 12 of Rubinson, ed., Dynamics of World Development, Sage, 1981 (reprinted in World-Systems Analysis)
the translation of a 1977 article (with I. Wallerstein) into German (1981) and Japanese (1984)
the reprinting of a 1983 article (with G. Arrighi and I. Wallerstein) in Collins, ed., Three Sociological Traditions (Oxford, 1985).

Outside Lectures:

Fudan University, Beijing University, Nankai University, CASS, China, Summer of 1987, 14 lectures given (to be turned into a book).

1984:

"Dilemmas of Anti-systemic Movements," (with G. Arrighi and I. Wallerstein), Sixth International Colloquium on the World-Economy, Paris.

"The Capitalist World-Economy as Historical Social System," American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, San Antonio, Texas.

"Aspects of (World) Ruling-Class Formation," American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C.

1985:

"The Interplay of Class-Struggle and National Liberation in the Third World," (with Arrighi and Wallerstein), Seventh International Colloquium on the World-Economy, Dakar.

"Space for Theory and Theoretical Space in World-Historical Studies: Marx and Weber" (with Arrighi), American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C.

"Comparing Downturns: Some Questions of Method..." (with Wallerstein), Colloquium on the Present Downturn of the World-Economy (sponsored jointly by FBC and GEMDEV, Paris), Binghamton, N.Y.

Grants:

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: "Hegemony and Rivalry in the World-System: Trends and Prospective Consequences of Geopolitical," with I. Wallerstein, G. Arrighi through Fernand Braudel Center awarded in the amount of $80,735.

Research/Writing:

Book-length: Problems of method in studies of historical social change. Studies of incorporation into the capitalist world-economy (with others). Production-chains of the Europe-centered world-economy, sixteenth through eighteenth centuries (with others).

Article-length: The organizing theoretical ideas of world-system studies. 'Classical' social theory and contemporary world-historical inquiry. The capitalist world-economy's stratifying processes and the formation, recomposition and disintegration of communities. For Polanyi. 'Levels' of social structuring: theoretical problems and methodological difficulties. Once again on political arithmetic (on using currently constructed national and international statistics to gauge the workings of the capitalist world-economy as historical social system). The world-scale, historical social science in the making: trends, patterns, implications. The divisioning of labor as world-historical process. Forms and trajectories of world-scale social movements in Western Europe. [Several of these are, perforce, being done collaboratively.]

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