Re: [Marxism] Graduate Programs in World Systems Analysis & History

[Isaac Curtis <isaac.curtis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I knew I was confused about something to do with Wallerstein, though he
also appears on the Yale roster as a visiting scholar.  Obviously even
if he were around he wouldn't be there for long enough for it to matter,
so it's not really a consideration.  Who currently holds the Braudel
seat at Binghamton?  Anyone of interest?  I saw the roster
<http://fbc.binghamton.edu/structur.htm> at the center and though I
didn't recognize any names a few google searches turned up a pretty
consistent political economy if not Marxist tendency.  Is Binghamton
still on the map?

Rutgers looks interesting as well.  I saw some interesting offerings
from Borocz there in browsing the site.  I really appreciate your
attention to the activism and personality of Allen Howard, that is very
much what I was looking for when I posed the initial question, even if I
didn't articulate that very well.  I could certainly learn a lot from
time with someone prominent like a Brenner or Wallerstein, but you
rightly point out that they often lack the time.  Equally important to
me, I am really looking for an environment where theory is put into
practice, a place where I can study with activist-academics, not just a
lefty brain trust.

Thank you again for the very useful feedback, even if you ended up
expanding and not helping eliminate my options!

Isaac



Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition wrote:

> Wallerstein is no longer at SUNY Binghamton -- retired.  To your list you
> might add Rutgers where I went.  There are a couple of Marxists there in the
> history department.  Though he's not one of the Big Names in this field, I
> set up a small reading group to study World Systems theory and the
> "transition question" with Allen Howard whose speciality is West African
> history and who has a long pedigree as a leftist activist and who is a
> genuinely nice man.  The History Dept. sponsors a sort of think tank called
> the Center for Historical Analysis which draws in Big Name historians such
> as, when I was there in the early 1990s, E.P. and Dorothy Thompson, and they
> did other interesting things like bringing in Canadian Trotskyist and labor
> historian Brian Palmer to debate socialist feminist convert to
> postmodernism, Joan Scott.  It was an interesting milieu, then anyway, with
> quite a few leftist grad students.  One grad student I knew when I was there
> did his dissertation on the history of the Vietnam Veterans against the War
> (VVAW); another did his on the Cuba solidarity movement; another on Arizona
> mine workers.  Marxists are also lurking in the Rutgers Geography (ex-home
> of Neal Smith who is now at NYU, I believe) and English programs.  Plus,
> they have fellowships.
>
> jay
>
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