Immanuel M Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein, founder of World-Systems Analysis, is Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Sociology Department. As of 1976, he served as distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY) until his retirement in 1999, and as head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. Wallerstein is the author or editor of numerous books, articles, and reports, including his multi-volume series The Modern World-System (I...See more

Immanuel Wallerstein, founder of World-Systems Analysis, is Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Sociology Department. As of 1976, he served as distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton University (SUNY) until his retirement in 1999, and as head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations until 2005. Wallerstein is the author or editor of numerous books, articles, and reports, including his multi-volume series The Modern World-System (I-IV) (Univ. of California Press, 2011), Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization (Verso, 2011), and Utopistics: Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 1998). More recently he has edited The World is Out of Joint: World-Historical Interpretations of Continuing Polarizations (Routledge, 2016). See less