Name: Beverly Silver
Title: Professor
Organisation: Department of Sociology, John Hopkins University
Brief Profile:
- Professor in the Department of Sociology
- Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies
- My research focuses on problems of development, labor, social conflict, and war
- Using comparative and world-historical methods of analysis
- By recasting these issues in a broad geographical and long-term historical framework, her work teases out patterns of recurrence, evolution and “true novelty” in contemporary processes of globalization.
Beverly Silver is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Centre for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on problems of development, labour, social conflict, and war, using comparative and world-historical methods of analysis. By recasting these issues in a broad geographical and long-term historical framework, her work teases out patterns of recurrence, evolution and “true novelty” in contemporary processes of globalization.