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.