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Richard E. Lee, Professor

Office: LT 403
Office hours as posted or by appointment.
Phone: ext. 7-4627
Email: rlee@binghamton.edu

CURRICULUM VITAE 

Professor Lee concentrates on the study of long-term, large-scale social change from the world-systems perspective. In the Department of Sociology he teaches the theory and methodology of historical social science; the cultural construction of inequalities; structures of knowledge, cultural studies and science studies; and World-Systems Analysis. Professor Lee is also Director of the Fernand Braudel Center. There he supervises a research-working group on the “Cultural Forms of the World-System” and oversees the Harpur College Dean’s Workshops on “Utopistics” and, with Gerald Kutcher, “Science Studies.” His research agenda focuses on the long-term intellectual and disciplinary structures of knowledge formation in writings that range across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Professor Lee has published in such journals as Review, Protosociologie, International Review of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Journal of World-Systems Research, and Futures. Recent publications included Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge (2003), and the collections World-Systems Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions (edited with Gerhard Preyer, 2004) and Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System (edited with Immanuel Wallerstein, 2004).
Recent Courses:  
Intro. to World-Systems
Cultural Forms of the World-System
Structures of Knowledge
Recent Publications:  
Of Cases and Instances: Doing Historical Social Science (in progress). 

“Richard Hoggart and the Epistemological Impact of Cultural Studies,” in The Uses of Richard Hoggart, edited by Sue Owen (London: Palgrave, forthcoming). 

“Science Wars: Whither the Two Cultures?” in Cognitive Justice in a Global World: Prudent Knowledges for a Decent Life, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming). 

“Braudel, Fernand (1902-1986),” in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, edited by David S. Clark (Thousand Oaks: Sage), forthcoming 2006. 

"Between Wert and Wissen: A Future for the Three Cultures?" in Collection in the Humanities (Riga: Russian Baltic Institute, 2005). 

Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System. (With Immanuel Wallerstein.) Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004.

Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.

World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions. (With Gerhard Preyer,) Protosociology 20, 1-257.

“Introduction: The Two Cultures.” (With Immanuel Wallerstein.) In Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, co-coordinator Immanuel Wallerstein. New York: Paradigm, 2004,1-5. [Japanese, forthcoming]

"Complexity Studies." In Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System. New York: Paradigm, 2004, 107-17. [Japanese, forthcoming]

"The 'Culture Wars' and the 'Science Wars'." In Overcoming the Two Cultures: The Sciences and the Humanities in the Modern World-System, New York: Paradigm, 2004:  189-202. [Japanese, forthcoming]

“Introduction.” (With Gerhard Preyer.) In World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions. Edited by Richard E. Lee and Gerhard Preyer, Protosociology, 20, (2004): 6-12.

"A Note on Method with an Example—The ‘War on Terror’.” In World-System Analysis: Contemporary Research and Directions. Edited by Richard E. Lee and Gerhard Preyer. Protosociology, 20, (2004): 71-84.

“O destino das ‘duas culturas’: mais uma salva de tiros nas ‘guerras da ciênica’.” In Conhecimento Prudente para uma Vida Decente: Um Discurso as Ciencias Revisado. Edited by Boaventura dos Santos. Oporto:Afrontamento, 2003.

“La crisis de las estructuras del conocimiento: hacia donde nos vamos? In Desafios de la transdisciplinaridad,. Edited by Alberto Flórez Malagón and Carmen Millán de Benavides. Bogotá: CEJAS, 2002.

“After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism.” In Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World System. Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Mathias Bös. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.

“Bucking the System: The TimeSpace of Antisystemic Movemements.” In The Modern World System in the 20th Century. Edited by Ramón Grosfuguel and Margarita Rodriguez. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.

“Putting Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again? The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences.” Futures, Vol. 35 (2003): 621-32.

“The Third Arena; Trends and Logistics in the Geoculture of the Modern World System.” In Emerging Issues in the 21st Century World-System. Edited by Wilma A. Dunaway. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

“Sociocybernetic Approaches for a Changing World: An Introduction.” International Review of Sociology, Vol 12, No. 2 (July 2002): 187-91.

“Imagining the Future”: Constructing Social Knowledge after ‘Complexity Studies.’” International Review of Sociology, Vol 12, No. 2 (July 2002): 333-41.

“Sociocybernetic Approaches to Social Change.” International Review of Sociology, Vol 12, No. 2 (July 2002): 187-342.

“Sesión Inaugural.” Journal of Sociocybernetics, Vol.2, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2001/2): 43-8.

“After History? The Last Frontier of Historical Capitalism.” Protosoziologie 15 (2001): 87-104.

“The Structures of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences: Two Postulates, Two Propositions and a Closing Remark.” Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. VI, No. 3 (Fall/Winter 2000): 786-96.

“A Journal for Cybernetics.” (With Felix Geyer and Bernd Hornung.) Journal of Cybernetics Vol. 1, No.1 (Spring/Summer 2000): 1-6.

“The Crisis of the Structures of Knowledge: Where do we go from here?” In Social Sciences and Transdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences. Edited by Rosalind Boyd and Alberto Flórez-Malagon. Montreal:CDAS, 2002.

“Structures of Knowledge.” (With Immanuel Wallerstein.) In The Blackwell Companion to Sociology. Edited by Judith Blau. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2000.