Professor Office: LT 402 Office hours as posted or by appointment. Phone: ext. ext. 7-6750 Email: wgmartin@binghamton.edu CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor Martin's research and teaching interests include the relationship between the formation of Africa and the modern world, the sociology of knowledge, and global social movements. His most recent undergraduate courses include courses on the relation of Europe and America to Africa and people of African descent and an introduction to global sociology; his most recent publications include essays on the prison industrial complex, southern Africa and the world-economy, anti-systemic movements, global black movements, and the history of the study of Africa and people of African descent.

Recent Courses:

Anti-Systemic Movements
Global Social Movements

Recent Publications:

The Prison Industrial Complex Goes to Africa: Branch Plant or Apartheid Plant?” forthcoming in Rethinking Prisons, Mechthild Nagel and Seth N. Asumah, eds.

“Introduction: Recapturing Black Worlds in Postliberal Times,” Review, 21, 8, 2005.

“Global Movements Before ‘Globalization’: Black Movements as World-Historical Movements,” Review, 21, 8, 2005.

“Beyond Bush: The Future of Popular Movements and US Africa Policy,” Review of African Political Economy, 31, 102, December 2004: 585-97.

"World-Systems Theory," in Writing African History, John Phillips ed., University of Rochester Press, 2005.

“The World-Economy and the African State,” in Ricardo Laremont, ed., Borders, Nationalism, and the African State, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005.

"Still Partners and Still Dissident After All These Years? Wallerstein, World Revolutions and the World-Systems Perspective," Journal of World-Systems Research, 6, 2, Summer-Fall, 2000, 234-265.

“Bin Laden and Mandela: Yesterday’s Freedom Fighters, Today’s Terrorist?” Black Thought, Vol. 5, No. 7, October 2001: 3.

“Africa Action after Apartheid: Constituents or Activists?” ACAS Bulletin 57/58, 200): 5-9.

"Privatizing Prisons from the USA to SA: Controlling Dangerous Africans Across the Atlantic," ACAS Bulletin, 59, Winter, 2000, 2-9;? reprinted in Safundi: the Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies , 8, February 2002 [http: http://www.safundi.com/papers.asp?lop=martin].

“Still Partners and Still Dissident After all these Years? Wallerstein, World Revolutions and the World-Systems Perspective.” Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2000: 234-65.

Out of One, Many Africas. (Edited with Michael O. West). Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

“The Ascent, Triumph, and Disintegration of the Africanist Enterprise, USA.” (With Michael O. West.) In Out of One, Many Africas. (Edited with Michael O. West). Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

“Three Paradigms: The Rival Africas of Africanists and Africans at Home and Abroad.” (With Michael O. West.) In Out of One, Many Africas. (Edited with Michael O. West). Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
“Constructive Engagement II, or Catching the Fourth Wave: Who and Where are the ‘Constituents’ for Africa.” Black Scholar, Vol. 21, No. 9, 1999: 21-29.

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