Julian Go Assistant Professor Ph.D.,University of Chicago, 2000 juliango@bu.edu Personal webpage: people.bu.edu/juliango. Link to Empire Network: http://www.bu.edu/sociology/Empire Book pages: American Empire and the Politics of Meaning (Duke U. Press 2008) The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (Duke U. Press, 2003)

Julian Go received his B.A. in Sociology & Political Science from the University of Michigan (1992), his M.A. in sociology from the University of Chicago (1995) and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago (2000). He joined the faculty of Boston University's sociology department in 2004. Previously he was an Academy Scholar at the Academy for International and Area Studies of Harvard University and assistant professor at the University of Illinois. He is the winner of the 2007 Wisneski Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences and elected member of the Council of the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Julian's teaching and research areas include comparative-historical sociology, globalization, cultural sociology, social theory, and  colonialism and post-colonialism. He has received grants or fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the MacArthur Foundation & the University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies in Peace and International Cooperation, the Harvard Academy, the United States Department of Education, and the American Sociological Association-National Science Foundation (Funds for the Advancement of the Discipline).

Much of Julian’ work has focused upon the United States empire and American colonialism, examining them from the perspective of cultural sociology, state theory, and comparative-historical sociology. This research has resulted in various articles and two book projects: The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (co-edited with Anne Foster, Duke University Press, 2003 and Anvil Press), and American Empire and the Politics of Meaning (Duke University Press, 2008). He is currently completing "Cycles of Global Power," a book monograph comparing US and British imperial formations, 1688-2003, partially funded by the ASA-NSF. He has also published on the discourse of industrial accidents and welfare policy; the meaning of “race” and racism in colnoial contexts, and the global diffusion of state forms as expressed in postcolonial constitutionalism.

For AY 2006-7, Professor Go is organizing a workshop, “Empires, Colonialisms, Contexts” sponsored by the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He is also co-organizer (with Neil Gross of Harvard sociology and David Swartz of BU) of the Boston Area Social Theory Group (BASTG) and invited contributor to the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Project, “The Philippines and Japan Under the US Shadow” (Yoshiko Nagano and Kiichi Fujiwara, PIs).

The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives (Duke U. Press, 2003)

SOCIOLOGY 708
Modern Sociological Theory
This course will introduce students to key theories and associated research programs in contemporary sociology. As an introductory theory course, it is extensive rather than intensive. We take a broad look at theoretical trends and schools of thought rather than an in-depth examination of any particular school or problematic. This should provide students with the tools necessary to develop their own theoretical interests and pursue further explorations of theory on their own accord. The first part of the course covers major theoretical developments in traditional American sociology since the Chicago School. We will cover symbolic interactionism, dramaturgical analysis, phenomenology, structural-functionalism, conflict theory and exchange theory. The second part turns to a different lineage of theoretical developments, tracing European social theory and critiques of social scientific epistemology. This part of the course covers the Frankfurt school, French structuralism, theories of structure and agency in Giddens and Bourdieu, the presumed post-structuralism of Michel Foucault, critical race and gender theory, and postmodern sociology.

SOCIOLOGY 408/808
Seminar: Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations
This course, intended for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates, examines advanced sociological research and theory on race, ethnicity, and minority groups in the United States. While the main focus is upon race and ethnicity relations within the United States, we will also look at non-US contexts for comparative understanding. Further, we will examine theories on race and ethnicity that transcend the particularity of the US setting. Themes include but are not restricted to: race and inequality, theories of racial stratification, violence against minority groups, imperialism and immigration, the constructedness of racial categories and “racialization”, the making of ethnic and racial identity, racialized regimes in the US and other countries, and the meanings of whiteness.

SOCIOLOGY 203
Introduction to Sociological Theories
This course will introduce students to the founding texts in sociological theory. We will read the primary works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber. We will see what they had to say about, among other things, the relationship between the self and society, the nature of social domination, the social bases of the economic market, how religion shapes how many hours people work, and the logic of (and immanent end to) modern capitalism.

SOCIOLOGY 534
Seminar: Modernity and Social Change
A systematic presentation of major theoretical issues in the areas of social change, modernization, and development. This semester we will pay particular attention to GLOBALIZATION. What are the causes of globalization? Of what, exactly, does it consist, and is it new or just something old?  How are global forces currently shaping our daily lives, from what we wear to what we eat? What is this thing called ‘global capitalism’ anyways, and who is in command of it - if anyone at all? Course materials include readings and films.

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