Current Research Dr. William I. Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. He specializes in macro and comparative sociology and his expertise is in globalization, political economy, and development. His most recent research explores globalization, transnational classes, and the rise of a transnational state. As well, he has been conducting an ongoing research project on globalization, development, and social change in Central America and the greater Caribbean Basin. Dr. Robinson is also preparing a book manuscript on this topic, tentatively titled Maldevelopment in Central America , which he expects to complete in the year 2000.
Globalization studies are at the cutting edge of the social sciences.
It has contributed as well to defining the changing parameters and reference points of macro-social inquiry at the turn of the century. During the 1998-99 academic year Robinson gave guest lectures on these themes at Princeton University, the London School of Economics, the Central American University, and at the Guatemalan and Costa Rican offices of the Latin America Social Science Faculty Association, and he participated in symposiums at the University of Warwick in England and at Brown University in Rhode Island.