Comparative Research Workshop
Fall 2007

September 10
Jack Goldstone (Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University), "The Rise of the West--What Really Needs to be Explained?" Download paper

"Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent. A Response to Bryant." Download paper.   Download tables.

September 17
David Scales (Sociology, Yale University)
"Contamination and the Codex Alimentarius: Science and Technology in the Regulation of Global Food Markets"

September 24
Tabitha Decker (Sociology, Yale University)
"‘First in Space, but not in Femininity’: Gender as Ideological Competition in America’s Cold War"

October 1
Peter Stamatov (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Yale)
"Activist Religion, Empire, and the Emergence of Modern Long-Distance Advocacy Networks"

October 8
Jennifer Bair (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Yale)

October 15
Jesse Einhorn

October 22
Cherie Woodworth (Visiting Assistant Professor, History, Fairfield University)
"Ocean and Steppe: Early Modern World Empires"
*Draft. Not for citation without permission of the author*

October 29
Philip S. Gorski and Ates Altinordu (Yale University)
"After Secularization?"

November 5
Julian Go (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Boston University)
"Cycles of Global Power:
The British and American Empires Compared, 1688-2003"

November 12
Xiaohong Xu (Yale University)

November 26
Sam Nelson (Yale University)

December 3
Stephanie Greenlea (Yale University)