December 2011 ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITAE

Beverly Judith Silver Department of Sociology The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218 Telephone: (410) 516-7635 Fax: (410) 516-7590 E-mail: [email protected]

Education: 1980

Barnard College, Columbia University, B.A., magna cum laude and with honors in Economics

1992

State University of New York - Binghamton, Sociology, Ph.D., with distinction

Current Academic Post: 2002-

Professor, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University

Past Academic Posts: 1998-2002

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University

1992-1998

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University

1992-1999

Senior Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York, Binghamton

Distinguished Publication Awards: 2006

Distinguished Academic Literature Award of the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism for the Korean edition of Forces of Labor

2005

The Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association (for Forces of Labor)

2005

Book Award (Honorable Mention), Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association (for Forces of Labor)

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2004

Distinguished Book Award, Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association (for Forces of Labor)

2001

Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World System Section (for Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System)

1996

Distinguished Publication (Article) Award, American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World System Section (for articles in Review 1995)

Teaching Awards: 1996

Distinguished Faculty Award (for teaching), Johns Hopkins University

1994-1995

William R. Kenan, Jr. Endowment Fund Grant ("for innovative projects designed to enhance the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate teaching at Hopkins"), Dean of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University

Publications: Books: Beverly J. Silver, Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Second printing 2005. Third printing 2006. Fourth printing 2008. Spanish translation, Ediciones AKAL (Madrid), 2005 German translation, Assoziation A (Berlin), 2005 Korean translation (with new forward by author), Greenbee Publishers, 2005 Portuguese translation, Boitempo (Brazil; with new forward by author), 2005 Italian translation, Bruno Mondadori (Milano), 2008 Polish translation, Le Monde Diplomatique Books (Warsaw), 2009. Turkish translation, Yordam Kitap Publishing House (Istanbul), 2009 Persian (Farsi) translation, Alfabetmaxima, 2011 Chinese translation (with new postscript by author), Social Science Academic Press (Beijing), 2012 Czech translation, Grimmus (Prague), in press, 2012 Ukranian translation of chapter 5 in Commons (Kiev), 2012 English reprint: Chapter 1 reprinted in The Transnational Reader, edited by Peggy Levitt and Sanjiv Khargram, Routledge 2007. Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver (with I. Ahmed, K. Barr, S. Hisaeda, P.K. Hui, K. Ray, T. Reifer, M. Shih and E. Slater), Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System, University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Second printing 2000. Spanish translation, Ediciones AKAL (Madrid), 2001 Portuguese translation, Contraponto (Rio de Janeiro), 2001 2

Chinese translation, San Lian Shudian (Beijing), 2003 Italian translation, Bruno Mondadori (Milano), 2003 Journal Special Issue: Beverly J. Silver, Giovanni Arrighi and Melvyn Dubofsky, editors, Labor Unrest in the WorldEconomy, 1870-1990, special issue of Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol. 18, no. 1, Winter, 1995, pages 1-206. Articles and Book Chapters (partial list): Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, “The End of the Long Twentieth Century” in Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian, editors, Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown, New York University Press, 2011, 53-68. German translation: “Das Ende des langen 20. Jahrhunderts”, in A. Demirovic, J. Duck, F. Becker, P. Bader, eds., VielfachKrise: Im finanzmarktdominierten Kapitalismus, VSA Verlag (Hamburg), 2011, 211-228. Beverly J. Silver, “D’une hégémonie à l’autre”, Sciences Humaines, (Paris), May-June 2010. Spanish translation: De una hegemonía a otra”, Filosofía Hoy (Madrid), special issue: La Gran Historia Del Capitalismo, Guia 1, 2011. Beverly J. Silver and Lu Zhang, “China: Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest” chapter 9 in China and Global Capitalism, edited by H. Hung, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, 174-187. Italian translation: “Cina: l’epicentro emergente del conflitto operaio mondiale” in La Lunga accumulazione originaria: Politica e lavoro nel mercato mondiale, Ombre Corte, Verona, 2008, pages 177-204. German translation: “China als neuer Mittelpunkt der globalen Arbetiterunruhe”, Prokla 161 (Berlin), no. 4, December 2010, 605-618. Chinese translation: “You Ziben de Difang Jiu You Chongtu: Yi Zhongguo Wei Li”, 公共生活评论, Public Life Review (Social Science Academic Press, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), 2011. Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Capitalisme and (dés-)ordre mondial” (updated), Histoire Globale, Mondialisations et Capitalisme, edited by Philippe Beaujard, Laurent Berger and Philippe Norel, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2009, 227-260. [In French] Portuguese translation: In T. Dos Santos and C. E. Martins, eds. Long Duration and Conjuncture in Contemporary Capitalism, Federal University of Santa Catarina Press, 2008. Italian translation: “Capitalismo e (dis)ordine mondiale” in book of same title edited by G. 3

Cesarale and M. Pianta, Manifestolibri, Roma, 2010, 143-180. Beverly J. Silver, “Is Another Labor Movement Possible” (symposium essay), Contemporary Sociology, 37, 1, 2008, pages 4-9. Beverly J. Silver, “Donde el capital va, el conflicto capital-trabajo también irá”, Viento Sur, No. 86, May 2006. Beverly J. Silver, “Labor Upsurges: From Detroit to Ulsan and Beyond”, Critical Sociology, vol. 31, no. 3, pages 439-452, 2005. Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer, “Industrial Convergence and the Persistence of the North-South Income Divide: A Rejoinder”, Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2005. Beverly J. Silver, “Labor, Globalization and World Politics”, in Critical Globalization Studies, edited by Richard Appelbaum and William Robinson, Routledge Press, 2005 Beverly J. Silver, “Labor, War and World Politics: Contemporary Dynamics in Historical Perspective”, in Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System, edited by Berthold Unfried, Marcel van der Linden and Christine Schindler (ITH, vol. 38), Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2004 German translation, Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung, (Berlin), January, 2004; Hungarian translation, Egyenlito (Budapest), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 34-43, 2004; Swedish translation, Folkrorelser och Protester, 2005 Beverly J. Silver, “Rejoinder”, response to Symposium of Reviews of Beverly J. Silver’s Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870, in In Critical Solidarity (American Sociological Association), Winter 2003 Reprinted in Debate, (South Africa), Spring 2004 Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, “Polanyi’s ‘Double Movement’: The Belle Époques of U.S. and British World Hegemony Compared”, Politics and Society, June 2003 Reprinted in J. Friedman and C. Chase-Dunn, eds., Hegemonic Declines: Past and Present. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, 153-182. Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer, “Response”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, 1, Spring, 2003, 39-42 Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver and Benjamin D. Brewer, “Industrial Convergence, Globalization, and the Persistence of the North-South Divide”, Studies in Comparative International Development, 38, 1, Spring, 2003, 3-31 Reprinted in J. Timmons Roberts and Amy Hite, editors, Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Social Change, Blackwell Publishing Limited, 4

2007, pages 320-334 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Capitalism and World (Dis)Order”, Review of International Studies, 27, December, 2001, 961-983 Reprinted in M. Cox, T. Dunne and K. Booth, editors, Empires, Systems and States: Great Transformations in International Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Beverly J. Silver and Giovanni Arrighi, “Workers North and South” in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors, Socialist Register 2001 (Theme: Working Classes, Global Realities). London: Merlin Press, 2000, 51-74 Turkish translation, Ozgur Universite Forumu, March 2001, 100-126 Italian translation, La rivista del manifesto, 19, July/Aug 2001, 18-24 & 20, Sept. 2001, 47-54 Reprinted in L. Amoore, ed, The Global Resistance Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2005, 273-288. Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Hegemonic Transitions, Past and Present” in Political Power and Social Theory, vol.13, 1999, 239-275 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, “Scholarly Controversy: Rejoinder” in Political Power and Social Theory, vol. 13, 1999, 307-315 Beverly J. Silver, "Turning Points in Workers' Militancy in the World Automobile Industry, 1930s1990s", in Research in the Sociology of Work, vol. 7, 1997, 43-71 Beverly J. Silver, "Labor Unrest and World-Systems Analysis: Premises, Concepts and Measurement" in Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, 7-34 Beverly J. Silver, "World Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict: Labor Unrest, Long Waves and Cycles of Hegemony", Review, vol. 18, no. 1, 1995, 155-92 Beverly J. Silver, "Cycles of Hegemony and Labor Unrest in the Contemporary World-System" in Volker Bornschier and Pete Lengyel (eds.) World Society Studies, Volume 3, 1993, 339-359 Beverly J. Silver, “Class Struggle and Kondratieff Waves, 1870 to the present" in Alfred Kleinknecht, Ernest Mandel and Immanuel Wallerstein (eds.), New Findings in Long-Wave Research, St. Martin's Press, London, 1992, 279-296 Dutch translation, Vlaams Marxistisch Tijkschrift, vol. 25, no. 1, March 1991 Beverly J. Silver, "World-Scale Patterns of Labor-Capital Conflict" in Inga Brandell (ed.), Workers in Third World Industrialization, Macmillan Press, London, 1991, 217-233 Beverly J. Silver, "The Contradictions of Semiperipheral Success: The Case of Israel" in W. 5

Martin (ed.), Semiperipheral States in the World-Economy, Greenwood Press, 1990, 161-181 Hebrew translation, Yad Tabenkin Institute Papers, No. 21, 1990 Italian translation, Marx Centouno, 1991 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, "Global Patterns of Labor Movements" in Cahier du GEMDEV (Paris), 12, June 1989, 84-106 Research Working Group on World Labor, “Global Patterns of Labor Movements in Historical Perspective,” Review (Fernand Braudel Center), X, 1, 137-55 Japanese translation in Immanuel Wallerstein, editor, Research Projects of the World System, Fujiwora Shoten, 2002, 115-136 Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver, "Labor Movements and Capital Migration: The U.S. and Western Europe in World-Historical Perspective" (with G. Arrighi) in C. Bergquist (ed.), Labor in the Capitalist World Economy, Beverly Hills: Sage, 1984, 183-216 Spanish translation, Zona Abierta, No. 29, July-December, 1983 Italian translation, Stato e Mercato, No. 11, April 1984

Recent Conference Papers and Invited Lectures (past five years only, 2006-2011): “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Labor”, Invited Lecture, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS Think Tank Session), Shanghai, China, December 28, 2011. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Labor”, Invited Lecture, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, December 27, 2011. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism and the Future of Labor”, Invited Lecture, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, December 26, 2011. “Forces of Labor: Workers Movements and Globalization Since 1870” (set of 3 invited lectures), Zhong Shan (Sun-Yat Sen) University, Guangzhou, China, December 19, 20 and 21, 2011. “Theorizing the Working Class in Twenty-first Century Global Capitalism”, invited lecture/paper presented at Tsinghua University, Beijing, December 15, 2011. “Theorizing the Working Class in Twenty-first Century Global Capitalism”, invited lecture paper presented at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 12, 2011. “Obama and the ‘American Century’, paper presented at the Social Science History Association Meeting, Boston, November 17-20, 2011. Discussant on Immanuel Wallerstein’s Public Lecture, “Upsurge in Movements around the Globe: 1968 Redux?" at 2640 Center, Baltimore, November 3, 2011. Invited seminar speaker for Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Precarious 6

Work in Asia”, Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, October 27, 2011 “Jenseits des Langen 20. Jahrhunderts”, invited keynote speaker for Anstelle Eines Abschlusses, Transformation Im Kapitalismus Und Darüber Hinaus, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, Germany, October 14, 2011. “World-Systems Analysis and Labor: Transhistorical dimensions of workers’ struggles”, paper presented at Workshop on Workers and Labor in a Globalised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues, Centro Studi di Relazioni Industriali, Universitá di Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, September 29-30, 2011. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, invited lecture at Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Italy (co-sponsored by Dipartimento di Economia Societá e Politica, Universitá degli Studi di Urbino), September 26, 2011. Discussant for panel entitled “Global Labor Movements in the Era of Dispossession”, American Sociological Association Meeting, Las Vegas, August 20-23, 2011. Invited international speaker, “Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital: A Global View from the End of the ‘American Century’”, Labour and Society Research Group, Newcastle University and Northumbria University (UK), May 16, 2011. “Giovanni Arrighi’s Radical Rethinking of Social Theory for the Twenty-First Century” (with Felipe Filomeno and Kevan Harris), paper presented at The Eighth Annual Social Theory Forum, University of Massachusetts at Boston, April 13-14, 2011. [The 2011 theme was on Italian Social Theory and the call for papers invited “proposals addressing the span of modern Italian social theory, including thinkers such as… Giovanni Arrighi…”] “La nueva geografía económica: el papel de las economias emergentes” (The new economic geography and the role of emerging economies) invited opening plenary speaker at Foro de Las Ciudades: Europa y Los Paises Emergentes (Forum on Europe and Emerging Countries), Fuenlabrada, Madrid, March 24-26, 2011. “Strikes: A Global View”, paper presented at International Conference on Strikes and Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century, Lisbon, March 16-20, 2011 (Universidade Nova de Lisboa and co-sponsored by the Institute for Contemporary History in Lisbon, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Dijon, the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and others.) "Stones, Eggs and Heat: Reconstructing Giovanni Arrighi’s Approach to the Study of LongTerm, Large Scale Social Change", paper presented at Interdisciplinary Workshop entitled “The Comparative Imperative” at New York University, February 18-20, 2011. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, paper presented at Colloquium on Comparative Research, Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, February 9, 2011. “Understanding the Crisis Historically”, Conference on the Global Crisis: Rethinking Economy and Society, sponsored by the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), invited speaker, opening session, University of Chicago, December 3-4, 2010.

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“The United States in Decline: Why Is It Happening and What Does It Mean?” Social Science History Association Meeting, Chicago, November 18-21, 2010. “The Reconfiguration of Global Capitalism”, invited international speaker to give inaugural lecture for opening of their new International Studies Program at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil, November 10, 2010 “The Reconfiguration of Global Labor”, invited speaker, Faculty of Economics, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bello Horizonte, Brazil, November 11, 2010 “Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital”, invited public lecture, CUNY Graduate Center, New York October 19, 2010. “The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, invited seminar paper presented at The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, October 20, 2010. “A ilusão do desenvolvimento e a obra de Giovanni Arrighi: implicações para a América Latina” (The Developmentalist Illusion and the Work of Giovanni Arrighi: Implications for Latin America), invited paper presented at the IV Coloquio Brasileiro em Economia Politica dos Sistemas Mundo, Universidade Federale Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, August 30-31, 2010. “Crisis of Labor, Crisis of Capital: A View From the End of the American Century”, invited paper presented at Institute for Social Sciences, Gyeongsang National University, Seoul, Korea, May 29, 2010. "Retrospective on Capitalist Crisis," invited conference keynote speaker, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea from May 26-28, 2010. “An Arrighian Perspective on Land and Labor Rights in the World System”, Keynote address, Plenary Session in Memory of Giovanni Arrighi, 34th Annual Political Economy of the World System Conference, Florida Atlantic University, April 22-24, 2010. “The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Longue-Durée” (invited speaker on panels in honor of Giovanni Arrighi), Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 14, 2010. “The Work of Giovanni Arrighi”, invited panelist on session in honor of Giovanni Arrighi, Left Forum, Pace University, New York, March 19-21, 2010 “Labor and Nationalism/Transnationalism”, invited panelist, Left Forum, Pace University, New York, March 19-21, 2010 “1929-1939: From Crash to Catastrophe”, invited keynote speaker, World Peace Forum, Vancouver, Canada, November 8, 2009 “Crisis of Capitalism, Crisis of Hegemony: An Arrighian Perspective on the Current Conjuncture”, invited paper presented at session “Commemorating the Life and Work of Giovanni Arrighi” (sponsored by Critical Sociology), Seventh International Conference on Rethinking Marxism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 5-8, 2009.

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“The End of the Long Twentieth Century”, invited paper presented at World Public Forum— Dialogue of Civilizations (panel sponsored by Social Science Research Council), Rhodes, Greece, October 8-12, 2009. Author Meets Critics Session, Beyond the Boycott by Gay Seidman, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 10, 2009. “From Rhodesia to Beijing: Reflections on the Scholarship of Giovanni Arrighi”, invited panelist on session in honor of Giovanni Arrighi, American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 8, 2009. “Global Crises: Past and Present”, invited lecture, Princeton University, April 2, 2009. “The Nation in the Global Era: Nationalism and Globalization in Conflict and Transition”, invited keynote speaker at Global Studies Association Meeting, New York, June 5-7, 2008 “Marx in Shanghai: Is China the Emerging Epicenter of World Labor Unrest?” Invited paper presented at University of California, Berkeley (co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment), February 27, 2008. “Cina: un epicentro emergente di porteste operie globali?” Invited paper presented at the International Conference, “Politics and the World Market”, Universita degli Studi di Padova, January 11, 2008. “Boundary Drawing and the ‘Double Movement’: Is a Better World Possible?” Paper presented the Thematic Session “Theorizing Another World: Marx and Polanyi”, American Sociological Association Meeting, August 13, 2007. “Adam Smith in Beijing & Karl Marx in Shanghai: Dynamics of China’s Ascent” (joint with Giovanni Arrighi), public lecture, Faculty of Humanities, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, April 18, 2007. “Labor and Post-Fordism”, invited public lecture at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, December 13, 2006. “From Theorizing Labor and Social Unrest to Theorizing Global Inequality”, invited paper presented at the Seminar on “Rethinking Global Inequalities”, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, October 26-27, 2006. “When Capital Leaves: Can Development be a Workers’ ‘Fix’?”, paper presented at the International Sociological Association Meeting, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006. Respondent to critics for “Author Meets Critics” session on Beverly J. Silver’s Forces of Labor, the International Sociological Association Meeting, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006. “How Can the South Effectively Influence the Economic, Political, Social and Technological Evolution of the Global System“, panel participation at the conference on New Challenges for the South: Opportunities and Risks, organized by the South Centre, Geneva Switzerland, July 10-11, 2006 9

“Labor, War and Citizenship”, invited presentation, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 13, 2006. Professional Service (partial list): Editorial Boards: Contemporary Sociology, Editorial Board (2005-2008), Johns Hopkins University Press, Faculty Advisory Board (2002-2008), Labor History, Editorial Board (current), Journal of World Systems Research, Associate Editor (current), International Journal of Strikes and Social Conflicts (current) American Sociological Association, Political Economy of the World System section: Elected Council Member (1997-2000), Chair-Elect, Chair, Past-Chair (2001-2004), Nominations Committee Chair (2004), Dissertation Award Committee Chair (1993,1999,2003), Book Award Committee Chair (2002); Regular Session Organizer (several) Referee for American Journal of Sociology, National Science Foundation (Sociology program), National Science Foundation (Law and Social Science Program), Johns Hopkins University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Review of International Political Economy, Sociological Theory, Political Power and Social Theory, Labor Studies Journal, Labor History, others. Memberships: American Sociological Association (Sections: Comparative-Historical, Political Economy of the World System, Labor and Labor Movements); International Studies Association; International Sociological Association; Social Science History Association, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Eastern Sociological Society. COURSES TAUGHT (since Fall 2005): Graduate-Level: Social Theory, Macro-comparative Research Methods, Labor in the World System, World Systems Analysis, Global Social Change Research Seminar, Dissertation Seminar, International Development Undergraduate-Level: Global Crises: Past and Present, Comparative and Historical Sociology Research Practicum, Globalization and Social Protest, Introduction to Sociology, International Development

DISSERTATION SUPERVISION (partial list): First Reader (Primary Advisor) for 20 Ph.D. dissertations (13 completed, 7 in-progress); Second reader for 17 additional Ph.D.s (14 completed, 3 in-progress). Co-PI on six NSF Dissertation Improvement Awards (Eren, Zhang, Aschoff, Scully, Harris, Zhan)

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