Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology at EUSP, 1995-98. Since 1998 Social Science Research Council - MacArthur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in International Peace and Security in a Changing World. Research interests contemporary social theory, historical sociology, state formation, studies of organized crime. Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Recipient of an IREX grant for research at the University of California, Berkeley, and of a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford.
Research interests political sociology, social movements, stratification analysis, gender studies.
Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. His articles have appeared in many journals including the American Political Science Review, World Politics, the Journal of Politics, International Organization, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Slavic Review. He has been the recipient of many grants, most recently from the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research as well as the Pi Sigma Alpha and Helen Dwight Reid awards of the American Political Science Association. In addition to his many years of teaching at the University of Michigan, he has been a visiting professor at Columbia and Harvard and has taught previously at the European University at St. Petersburg in 1999.