JWSR

JWSR
The Journal of World Systems Research

About Christopher Chase-Dunn



Chase-Dunn attended Shasta College in Redding, the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University where he was awarded a PhD in Sociology in 1975.  His dissertation reported cross-national comparative research on the effects of dependence on foreign investment His first academic job was at Johns Hopkins University where he studied systems of cities and helped to develop the world-systems perspective on sociocultural evolution since the Stone Age. In 1995 founded the Journal of World-Systems Research (JWSR) . He moved to the University of California-Riverside in 2000 to found the Institute for Research on World-Systems.  His vita is at https://irows.ucr.edu/cd/ccdvitae.pdf

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