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CURRICULUM VITAE

Fuyuki Kurasawa

(February 2009)

GENERAL INFORMATION Work Address: 2088 Vari Hall

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts tel: 416-736-2100, ext. 77990 York University fax: 416-736-5730 4700 Keele St. email: kurasawa@yorku.ca Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada

Born 7 February 1972; Montréal, Québec, Canada Citizenship: Canadian Languages: English and French (fluent speaking, reading and writing); Spanish (intermediate reading) Areas of Specialization: social, political and cultural theory; political sociology; cultural sociology and cultural studies; political economy; visual studies Substantive Research: critical cosmopolitanism; intercultural analysis of Western modernity; global justice and human rights; cultural materialism; visual representations of distant suffering Education 1996-2000: Ph.D., Sociology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Ph.D. Thesis: "The Ethnological Imagination: Western Social Theory and the Cross-Cultural

Critique of Modernity" (Supervisors: Peter Beilharz, Johann Arnason, and Joel Kahn) 1993-1995: M.A., Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada M.A. Thesis: "Globalizations, Power, Marginality: Transnational Migrations and the

Restructuring of the Urban" (thesis passed with distinction; Supervisors: Rianne Mahon and Michael Dolan)

1994: Participant, International Summer School in Advanced Social Theory, Lancaster University,

Lancaster, United Kingdom 1990-1993: B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.), Political Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada (graduated

summa cum laude)

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Current Position July 2006- : Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University Previous Positions May 2007-July 2007: Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France January 2007-May 2007: Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge,

MA, USA September-December 2006: Visiting Scholar, Institute for European Studies and Mario Einaudi

Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA July 2001-July 2006: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University September 2003-August 2004: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Yale

University September 2003-August 2004: Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology,

New York University September 1999-May 2000: Visiting Fellow, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University,

Ottawa, Canada March 1997-June 1999: Casual Lecturer, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe

University, Melbourne, Australia May-June 1994: Visiting Research Fellow, Arbetslivscentrum (Swedish Centre for Working Life),

Stockholm, Sweden Honours and Awards May-July 2007: Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France May-July 2007: Resident Scholar, Maison Suger (International Centre for Research and Cooperation

for Advanced Foreign Scholars), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France January-May 2007: Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,

USA September-December 2006: Visiting Scholar, Institute for European Studies and Mario Einaudi

Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

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2006-10: Co-President, Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association (with Philip Smith)

2006- : International Fellow, Cultural Sociology Group, The Australian Sociological Association 2004- : Faculty Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA September 2003-July 2004: Fulbright Scholar, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, Foundation for

Educational Exchange Between Canada and the U.S.A. and Council for International Exchange of Scholars

September 2003-July 2004: Visiting Fellowship, Center for Cultural Sociology and Department of Sociology, Yale University

September 2003-July 2004: Visiting Fellowship, Department of Sociology, New York University 2000-1: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York

University 2000-2001: Fulbright Scholarship, Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, Foundation for Educational

Exchange Between Canada and the United States (declined) 2000-2001: Finalist (reversion list), Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Society for the Humanities,

Cornell University 2000: Canadian Young Leader, The Globe and Mail newspaper (July 1 issue) 1998: Finalist, Leo P. Chall Dissertation Fellowship in the History of Sociology, International

Sociological Association 1996-2000: Commonwealth Doctoral Fellowship, Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan,

Association of Commonwealth Universities and Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee 1995: Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Carleton University 1994: Canadian Participant, Swedish-Canadian Academic Foundation Program 1993-1994: Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship (for study in the United Kingdom), Mackenzie

King Scholarship Committee, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (declined) 1993-1994: British Council Postgraduate Scholarship (declined) 1993: University Silver Medal, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa 1990-1993: Dean's Honour List, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa 1988: Medal of the Governor General of Canada

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PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTION AND STANDING Publications Books and Monographs (forthcoming, under contract) Intersections and Interventions: Canadian Essays in Cultural Materialism.

Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, approx. 230 pages (expected publication date: 2010).

(2007) The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge

University Press, 239 pages. (2004) The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity. Minneapolis and London:

University of Minnesota Press, 249 pages. (1998) Co-editor, Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics

and Anthropology, La Trobe University (with C. Houston and A. Watson). Chapters in Books (forthcoming, accepted) "The Durkheimian School and Colonialism: Exploring the Constitutive

Paradox." In Sociology and Empire, ed. G. Steinmetz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, approx. 20 pages.

(forthcoming, accepted) "The Aporias of Cosmopolitan Visuality: Humanitarian Scopic Regimes and

the Production of Otherness." In Democracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community, ed. S. Gaon. Manchester: Manchester University Press, approx. 25 pages.

(2007) "The Healing of Wounds: Forgiveness as a Cultural Practice." In Culture, Society, and Democracy:

The Interpretive Approach, eds. I. Reed and J. C. Alexander. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 129-162.

(2006) "The Uses and Abuses of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Empire." In Empire's

Law: The American Imperial Project and the 'War to Remake the World,' ed. A. Bartholomew. London: Pluto Press, pp. 297-312.

(2004) "Jak propojit technovedu, etiku a demokracii." [Linking Technoscience, Ethics, and

Democracy] In Globalni spravedlnost a demokracie [Global Justice and Democracy], ed. M. Hrubec. Prague: Filosofia, pp. 313-350.

(2003) "Finding Godot?: Bringing Popular Culture Into Canadian Political Economy." In Changing

Canada: Political Economy as Transformation, eds. W. Clement and L. F. Vosko. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 467-492.

(1999) "La rencontre de l’altérité: vers une hybridité politique." ["The Encounter with Alterity:

Towards a Political Hybridity"] In Pluralisme et délibération: Enjeux de la philosophie politique

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contemporaine, eds. K. Mellos and P. Savidan. Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press, pp. 173-193.

(1998) “Myth 11: We Benefit from Their Hunger.” (principal authors: F. Moore Lappé et al.). In F.

Moore Lappé et al. World Hunger: Twelve Myths, 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, pp. 147-163. Articles (Refereed) (2009) "A Message in a Bottle: Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethico-Political Practice." Theory,

Culture & Society 26, 1: 95-114. (2009) "Global Justice as Ethico-Political Labour and the Enactment of Critical Cosmopolitanism."

Rethinking Marxism 21, 1: 83-100. (2008) "Americanity and the Prospects of a Hemispheric Social Imaginary." Journal of Intercultural

Studies 29, 4: 347-361. (2007) "The State of Intellectual Play: A Generational Manifesto for Neoliberal Times." Topia 18: 7-

38. (2004) "A Cosmopolitanism from Below: Alternative Globalization and the Creation of a Solidarity

without Bounds." European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie 45, 2: 233-255. (2004) "The Global Culture of Prevention and the Work of Foresight." Constellations 11, 4: 453-475. (2004) "Alexander and the Cultural Refounding of American Sociology." Thesis Eleven 79: 53-64. (2004) "Cinema, or, An Art of Urban Memory in an Age of Forgetting." Public 29: 24-49. (2004) “The Ties to Bind: Techno-Science, Ethics and Democracy.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 30,

2: 159-186. Czech version in Filosofick asopis [Philosophical Journal] 51, 6 (2003): 969-991.

(2003) "Primitiveness and the Flight from Modernity: Sociology and the Avant-Garde in Interwar

France." Economy and Society 32, 1: 7-28. (2003) “Prolegomena to an Intercultural Critical Theory.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 22: 325-

348. (2002) “Which Barbarians at the Gate? From the Culture Wars to Market Orthodoxy in the North

American Academy.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 39, 3: 323-347. (2002) “A Requiem for the Primitive.” History of the Human Sciences 15, 3: 1-24. (2000) "The Ethnological Counter-Current in Sociology." International Sociology 15, 1: 11-31.

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(2000) "At the Crossroads of the Radical: The Challenges of Castoriadis’s Thought." Theory, Culture & Society 17, 4: 145-155.

(1999) "The Exotic Effect: Foucault and the Question of Cultural Alterity." European Journal of Social

Theory 2, 2: 147-165. (1998) "The Adventures of the Structure." Thesis Eleven 55: 83-96. Papers in Published Conference Proceedings (2006) "On the Work of Global Justice: Conceptualizing Human Rights as Practices." In Globalisation

and the Future of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, ed. M. Harland. Lisbon: International Centre on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pp. 62-84 (22 pages).

(1998) "Introduction to Section 3: Spaces of Power, the Power of Space." In Imagined Places: The

Politics of Making Space, eds. C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, pp. 169-174.

(1998) "The Death of Myth and the Reechantment of the City: Surrealism and Modernity in

Interwar Paris." In Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space, eds. C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, pp. 199-205.

(1997) "Globalizations and the Urban: Worlds in Flow, Worlds of Flows." In Ambivalence and Hope:

Social Theory and Policy Making in a Globalizing, Postmodern Australia, eds. M. Booth and T. Hogan. Perth: Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, pp. 72-80.

Encyclopedia Entries (2005) “Henri Lefebvre.” In Encyclopedia of Social Theory, ed. G. Ritzer. London and Thousand Oaks,

CA: Sage, pp. 438-440. Reviews (1999) "Review of M. Augé's A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology." Journal of

Intercultural Studies 20, 1: 108-110. (1998) "Review of P. Rabinow's Essays on the Anthropology of Reason." Thesis Eleven 54: 133-137. (1997) "Review of J.-K. Gibson-Graham’s The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of

Political Economy and T. Ebert’s Ludic Feminism and After: Postmodernism, Desire and Labour in Late Capitalism." Thesis Eleven 51: 126-130.

(1997) "Review of B. Hindess’s Discourses of Power: From Hobbes to Foucault." Thesis Eleven 50: 131-135. Translations (1999) Jullien, F. "A Philosophical Use of China: An Interview with François Jullien." Thesis Eleven

57: 113-130.

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(1999) Castoriadis, C. "The Psychical and Social Roots of Hate." Free Associations. (1998) Berque, A. "Landscape and Immanence." Thesis Eleven 54: 106-116. (1998) Wieviorka, M. et al. "The Work of Norbert Elias: Its Content and its Reception." Thesis Eleven

54: 89-103. Other (2006) "Photography as Catalyst." Introductory Essay, World Press Photo exhibition brochure,

Toronto. (2005) "Bearing Witness." Introductory Essay, World Press Photo exhibition brochure, Toronto. (2000-1) “Critical Theory Meets the Cam: Reflections on the Mid-Term Conference.” Theory (the

Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association), Winter: 2-3.

(1996) "Toppling the Pyramid: Organizing Against Subcontracting." Third Force 6, 3: 20-28. Submitted "Socio-Visual Constructivism, Visual Ambiguity and the Iconography of Distant Suffering,"

submitted to Sociological Theory. "La justice mondiale comme travail éthico-politique et la politique des multitudes," submitted to

Multitudes. Invited Lectures "Toward a 'Sociology Of Sociology': On Disciplinary Boundaries, Scientific Aspirations, And Public

Interventions," Workshop, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 2008

"Global Justice as Ethico-Politico Labour," Law and Society Speakers' Series, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 2008 "Une solidarité sans frontières? Réflexions sur l'oeuvre politique du mouvement altermondialiste,"

Séminaire du GRIMS, Département de sociologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, October 2008

"Sociology as a Vocation," Honours Seminar Guest Lecture, Department of Sociology, Ryerson

University, Toronto, Canada, October 2008 "The Iconography of Distant Suffering and the Promises of Visual Ambiguity," Cultural Analysis

and Social Theory Lecture Series, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, October 2008

"Perilous Light: On the Visual Representation of Distant Suffering," Institute of Political Economy

Lecture Series, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 2008

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"The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices." Lines of Flight Seminar Series, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, November 2007

"Global Justice and Critical Cosmopolitanism." Unit for Global Justice and Department of

Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London, UK, June 2007 "An Alternative Globalization: Human Rights and Critical Cosmopolitanism." Wofford College,

Spartanburg, SC, USA, May 2007 "The Work of Global Justice: A Theory of Ethico-Political Practice," Department of Political

Science, New School for Social Research, New York, USA, April 2007 "Americanity and the Recasting of the Canadian Social Imaginary: Outlines of an Alternative

Continentalism." Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, April 2007

"Perilous Light: Photojournalism and the Ethics of Representing Suffering from a Distance."

Pandemics and Preparedness: Physicians for Human Rights Pre-Conference, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA, November 2006

"A Message in a Bottle: The Practice of Bearing Witness." Colloquia Series, Department of

Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, February 2004 "Globalization and the Problem of Human Solidarity." Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop,

Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, February 2004 "Between Principle and Practice: The New Imperative of Prevention of Catastrophe and the Work

of Global Civil Society." Rules Speaker Series, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, January 2004

“Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethical Practice.” Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Wilfrid

Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, March 2003 “Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethical Practice.” Centre on Values and Ethics, Carleton University,

Ottawa, Canada, February 2003 “A Critical Theory of Techno-Science.” Workshop Series, Graduate Program in Sociology, York

University, Toronto, Canada, April 2001 “Questions of Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Sociology.” Workshop Series, Graduate

Program in Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada, September 2000 "Critical Theory's Ethnological Counter-Current." Culture Roundtable, Departments of Sociology

and Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York, USA, March 1999

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Conference Presentations (Refereed) "The Visual Representation of Distant Suffering and the Humanitarian Imaginary," First Forum of

Sociology, International Sociological Association, Barcelona, Spain, September 2008 "The Durkheimian School and Colonialism," 'Sociology and Empire' Conference, Boston University,

Boston, USA, July-August 2008 "In Praise of Ambiguity: Strategies for the Visual Representation of Distant Suffering," Mid-Term

Conference, Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea, June 2008

"Commentary on Laurent Thévenot's Work," 'Au-delà des mouvements sociaux ? Les nouvelles formes de

l’action collective et le renouvellement des perspectives théoriques' Workshop, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, September 2007

"The Aporias of Cosmopolitan Visuality: Humanitarian Scopic Regimes and the Production of Otherness," 'Democracy in Crisis: Violence, Alterity, Community' Conference, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, June 2007

"Global Justice as Ethico-Political Labor," Rethinking Marxism Conference, University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, USA, October 2006 "Concluding Remarks: A Generational Manifesto for Neoliberal Times," The University in Translation:

A Symposium on Globalization and the University, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA, September 2006

"The Stranger's Keeper: On Aid to Distant Others," Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montréal, Canada, August 2006

"The Turn to Global Justice as a Catalyst for the Rebirth of Social Theory," 16th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, July 2006

"The Representation of Distant Suffering: Photography and/of the Other," Crossroads Conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2006

"On the Work of Global Justice: Conceptualizing Human Rights as Practices," Globalisation and the

Future of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, November 2005

"Sociological Theory's Turn to Global Justice: An Invitation, a Plea, or Perhaps, a Provocation," Junior Theorists Symposium, Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, USA, August 2005

"The Healing of Wounds: On Forgiveness as a Cultural Practice," Annual Conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, USA, May 2005

"Transnational Social Movements and the Prevention of Global Catastrophes," Annual Meeting of the

American Sociological Association, San Francisco, USA, August 2004 "The Contemporary Work of Foresight," Annual Meeting of the International Social Theory Consortium,

Toronto, Canada, June 2004 "Cinematic Memory and the City," 'Urban Experiences and Cultural Identities' Conference, Art Gallery of

Hamilton and McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, April 2004 "The Creation of Transnational Solidarity Through an Alternative Globalization," Annual Convention

of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 2004

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“Multiple Modernities: Between Relativism and Universalism,” Globalization and Multiple Modernities Workshop, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2003

“Dystopian Foresight and the Future of the Social,” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Halifax, Canada, June 2003

“Cinema, An Urban Art of Memory in an Age of Forgetting,” Urban Space, Media and Technology Symposium, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, April 2003

“Calhoun’s Cosmopolitan Critical Theory,” A Day with Craig Calhoun Conference, Thesis Eleven Centre

for Critical Theory, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2002 “Witnessing: A Boundary-Exploration,” 15th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological

Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002 “The New Culture of Capitalism,” 15th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological

Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002 “Alexander’s Vision of the Civil Sphere: Prospects and Problems,” A Day with Jeffrey Alexander

Conference, Thesis Eleven Centre for Critical Theory, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, July 2002

“Bearing Witness as a Mode of Ethical Practice.” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association

Annual Conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Toronto, Canada, May 2002

“A Message in a Bottle: Bearing Witness to the 20th Century,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Annual International Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2002

“Ethical Autonomy in the Techno-Scientific Age.” Second Annual Conference of the International Social

Theory Consortium, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, July 2001 “Critical Theory, Ethics, and Techno-Science,” Philosophy and Social Sciences Annual International

Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2001

“The Ties that Bind: Ethics, Democracy and Techno-Science,” Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, May 2001

“Two More Solitudes: Awaiting Canadian Political Economy’s Cultural Turn,” Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, May 2001

“Finding Godot: Bringing Popular Culture Into Canadian Political Economy,” Canadian Political Economy Conference, University of Toronto, March 2001

"Prolegomena to an Intercultural Critical Theory," Mid-Term Conference, Research Committee on

Sociological Theory, International Sociological Association, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 2000

"Weber and the Intercultural Foundations of Critical Theory," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA, August 2000

"A Response to the 'Another Foucault' Panel," Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA,

USA, March 1999 "The Ethnological Imagination and Other Modernities," Alternative Modernities Conference, Ashworth

Centre for Social Theory, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, November 1998

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"The Ethnological Imagination and a Critical Hermeneutics of European Modernity," Annual Conference, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1998

"Scientific Mythologies: Lévi-Strauss and Fin-de-siècle Primitiveness," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 1998

"In the Shadow of the Other: Durkheim’s Anthropological Imaginary," 14th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, July 1998

"Primitivism and the Death of the Sacred: The French School of Sociology and the Parisian Avant-Garde," 14th World Congress of Sociology, International Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada, July 1998

"On Civilized Savagery: Rousseau, European Modernity and the Primitive Condition," The Australian

Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, December 1997

"Urban Myth-Making in Interwar Paris," Cities, Communities, Regions Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, April 1997

"Rousseau on History and Culture," Annual Conference, School of Sociology, Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1997

"Foucault and the Cultural Other," The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference, University

of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 1996 "Durkheim on the Modern and the Primitive," The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference,

University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, December 1996 "Durkheim's Notions of Modernity and Primitiveness," Annual Conference, School of Sociology and

Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, October 1996 "Globalizations and the Urban: Worlds in Flow, Worlds of Flows," Social Theory and Policy Making in a

Globalizing, Postmodern Australia Conference, Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, April 1996

"Epistemologies of Globalization: On Constructing Materialist Feminist Reading Strategies," York

MUNS-Network Symposium on Global Governance and Change, Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada, May 1995

Research Support 2008-11: "Beyond the Frame: Humanitarian NGOs and the Visual Representation of Distant

Suffering," Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $100,250

2005-8: "The Making of a Global Culture of Human Rights: Towards a Sociological

Cosmopolitanism," Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $129,090

2003-4: "Out of the Ashes: On Transnational Humanitarianism," Fulbright Fellowship Grant,

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program, US$15,000

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2002-5: "Practices of Global Justice," Standard Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $80,020

2000-2: "Science, Ethics, and the Public Sphere: Understanding and Overcoming the Great Divide,"

Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, $5,000

2001: Small Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York University,

$3,000 2001: Conference Travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, York

University, $1,000 1998-1999: Grants for Overseas Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe

University, $3,500 1994: David Lewis Research Honorarium, David Lewis Trust Fund, Toronto, Canada, $3,000 Professional Contributions Event Organization Co-Organizer, Mid-Term Conference, Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International

Sociological Association, Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea, June 2008 (with Philip Smith and Seung-Kuk Kim)

Chair and Organizer, 'Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights' Session, 16th World Congress of

Sociology, International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, July 2006 Chair and Organizer, 'Global Justice and the Future of Human Rights in a Changing World' Plenary

(with Craig Calhoun, Nancy Fraser, and Will Kymlicka), Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, Canada, June 2006

Chair and Organizer, Workshop with Craig Calhoun and Nancy Fraser, Graduate Programme in

Sociology, York University, Toronto, Canada, June 2006 Co-Chair, 'Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Gender and Work Database' Roundtable, Gender and

Work Database Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, October 2004 Chair and Organizer, ‘Rethinking the Social’ Panel (with Bruce Curtis, Brian Singer, and Lorna

Weir), Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Halifax, Canada, June 2003 Chair and Organizer, ‘In the Trenches: Problems and Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography’ Panel (with

Loic Wacquant, Rinaldo Walcott, Tim Diamond, and Tara Milbrandt), York University, Toronto, Canada, April 2003

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Chair and Co-Organizer, ‘Market-Driven Politics’ Panel (with Leo Panitch and Colin Leys), Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, 2002

Chair, Panel, 'Perspectives on Social Inequality: Issues of Race, Gender, and Class Worldwide'

Conference, York University/Tokyo Foundation, Toronto, Canada, September 2001 Co-Organizer, ‘Alternative Modernities’ Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne,

Australia, 1998 Co-Organizer, Socialist Seminar Series, Carleton University, 1994-1995 Co-Organizer, ‘Postmodernism and Post-Fordism’ Workshop, Carleton University, 1994 Offices in Professional Organizations 2006- : Co-President, Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International Sociological

Association (with Philip Smith) 2002- : Board Member (elected), Research Committee on Sociological Theory, International

Sociological Association Lectures to Professional Organizations "Shifting Terrain: The New Cultural Critique of Capitalism." Studies in Political Economy Annual Board

Meeting, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, January 2004 Editing Consulting Editor, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social Theory, eds. A. Harrington, B. Marshall and H.-P.

Müller. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Manuscript Reviewing

journals: Thesis Eleven; Theory, Culture and Society; Studies in Political Economy; History of the Human Sciences; Constellations presses: University of Minnesota Press; Routledge; Pennsylvania State University Press Grant Application Assessment 2005: external reviewer for Standard Research Grant Program application, Interdisciplinary Studies

Committee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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Membership of Editorial Advisory Boards Constellations (Editorial Associate) Studies in Political Economy Thesis Eleven Journal of Intercultural Studies Membership in Professional Organizations Social Science History Association: 2008- Association for Cultural Studies: 2006- International Visual Sociology Association: 2005- International Sociological Association (ISA): 1998- (Research Committee on Sociological Theory;

Research Committee on the History of Sociology) American Sociological Association (ASA): 1998- (Theory Section; Political Sociology Section;

Sociology of Culture Section) International Studies Association: 2003- Canadian Sociology Association: 2000- The Australian Sociological Association: 1996-1999 Canadian Political Science Association: 1990-1993, 2000-2001 TEACHING Undergraduate Courses Taught 2002-3: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University 2001-2: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University 2000-1: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06C), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University Courses Co-Taught 2008-9: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06E), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University (with Philip Walsh) 2008-9: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06G), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University (with Reza Rahbari) 2007-8: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06E), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University (with Philip Walsh) 2007-8: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06G), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University (with Reza Rahbari) 2005-6: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University (with Naomi Couto)

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2004-5: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06B), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (with Adam Green)

1998: 'Honours Seminar' (SOC 4HON), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

1997: 'Culture, Society and Theory' (SOC 2/3TCS), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

1997: 'The Sociology of Everyday Life' (SOC 2/3EL), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Course Developed 2000-6: 'Sociological Theory' (SOCI 2040.06), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University (course developed and redeveloped every academic year) B.A. Honours Thesis Supervision completed: Sandy Hsu (Sociology) Graduate Courses Taught 2008-9: 'Theories of Cosmopolitanism' (SOCI 6196/POLS 6005), Graduate Programs in Sociology

and Political Science, York University 2007-8: 'Theories of Cosmopolitanism' (SOCI 6196/POLS 6005), Graduate Programs in Sociology

and Political Science, York University 2005-6: 'Theorizing Modernity' (SOCI 6195.06), Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2004-5: 'Theorizing Modernity' (SOCI 6195.06), Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2000: 'Selected Problems in Political Economy II: Capitalism and Modern Culture'

(44.552X/53.555), Institute of Political Economy and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Courses Co-Taught 2002-3: 'Selected Problems in Classical and Contemporary Theory' (SOCI 6190.06), Graduate

Programme in Sociology, York University (with Jos Lennards) 2001-2: 'Selected Problems in Classical and Contemporary Theory' (SOCI 6190.06), Graduate

Programme in Sociology, York University (with Jos Lennards) Courses Developed 2007-8: 'Theories of Cosmopolitanism' (SOCI 6196/POLS 6005), Graduate Programmes in

Sociology and Political Science, York University 2004-5: 'Theorizing Modernity' (SOCI 6195.06), Graduate Programme in Sociology, York University

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2000: 'Selected Problems in Political Economy II: Capitalism and Modern Culture' (44.552X/53.555), Institute of Political Economy and Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University

Graduate Supervision Ph.D., in progress: Michael Christensen (Sociology); Karine Côté-Boucher (Sociology); Mervyn

Horgan (Sociology); Marcia Oliver (Sociology); Philip Steiner (Sociology); Steve Tasson (Sociology)

M.A., completed: Behzad Sarmadi (Anthropology; co-supervision) Ph.D., completed: Matthew Hayes (Sociology) Graduate Committee Membership Ph.D., completed: Nancy Cook (Sociology); J. J. McMurtry (Social and Political Thought); Paul Moore (Sociology); Megan Salhus (Environmental Studies) Ph.D., in progress: Saara Liinamaa (Social and Political Thought); Peter Mallory (Sociology) Ph.D., suspended: Carlos Neves (Sociology) M.A., completed: Stefka Lubenova (Sociology); Tomoko Mizuguchi (Sociology) SERVICE University Service Departmental Level 2005-6: Member, Appointments Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University Member, Hiring Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University 2004-5: Member, Appointments Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York

University Member, Hiring Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University 2002-3: Member, Executive Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

(half-year term) Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2001-2: Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University

2000-1: Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts,

York University

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2000-3: Founder and Organizer, York Annual Sociology Lecture, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University (annual lecturers: Dorothy Smith, Barbara Marshall, Loïc Wacquant)

Graduate Program Level 2008-9: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2007-8: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2005-6: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2004-5: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2002-3: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2001-2: Member, Curriculum Committee, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University Faculty Level 2000-2006: Co-Founder and Co-Coordinator, York Summer Program in Social and Cultural Theory,

Graduate Program in Communication and Culture and Graduate Program in Sociology, York University

University Level 2005- : Organizing Committee, Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture Workshops 2007-8: 'What is Theory?', M.A. Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2005-6: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2004-5: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2002-3: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2001-2: Grant Application Workshop, Graduate Program in Sociology, York University 2001-2: Teaching Theory Workshop, Centre for the Support of Teaching and Graduate Program in

Sociology, York University Community Service 2005- : Contributor and monthly columnist on U.S. affairs, Radio-Canada (Canadian Broadcasting

Corporation French-language radio) 2005- : Sponsor, World Press Photo Exhibition, Toronto, Canada 2 May 2008: 'Don't Judge a Book by its Cover: Ambuiguity in Photography,' Canadian Photo

Educators' Forum, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada 20 October 2007: 'The Role of Ambiguity,' World Press Photo Exhibition Public Lecture, Allen

Lambert Galleria, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada

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7 October 2006: 'Photography as Catalyst', World Press Photo Exhibition Public Lecture, Allen

Lambert Galleria, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada 5 October 2005: 'Photojournalism and the Moral Dilemmas of Bearing Witness,' World Press Photo

Exhibition Educational Evening, Allen Lambert Galleria, BCE Place, Toronto, Canada 6 May 2005: 'Photojournalism and Human Rights: Making the Connection,' Canadian Photo

Educators' Forum, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada 2 November 2004: Interview with Radio-Canada (CJBC, 'Ondes urbaines' radio show, Toronto,

Canada), on the U.S. presidential election 20 October 2004: Interview with Radio-Canada (CJBC, 'Ondes urbaines' radio show, Toronto,

Canada), on The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity 7 November 2003: 'Global Classroom Fulbright Symposium,' Metro International, New York City,

USA 5 December 2002: ‘Science Fiction and Modern Society,’ Lecture to Oakwood Collegiate Institute,

Toronto, Canada September-December 1995: Volunteer Researcher, Institute for Food and Development Policy

(Food First), Oakland, CA, USA September-December 1995: Volunteer Journalist and Researcher, Third Force magazine and Center

for Third World Organizing, Oakland, CA, USA 19 December 1994: Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human

Resources Development, Ottawa, Canada 7 November 1994: Presentation to the Community Education Forum on the Social Security Review,

Ottawa, Canada