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EDUCATION
PhD Sociology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (2016)
Dissertation Title: “American Expansion: The Transition to Capitalism on the Frontier of Colonization”
MA Political Science, York University, Toronto, Canada (2009)
Thesis Title: “Beyond the State Debate: Capitalism and the Interstate System”
BA Liberal Arts/Political Economy, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington (2006)
PUBLICATIONS
Books and Edited Journal Issues
Class Politics and the Creation of the US State. Under contract with University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2026.
Editor, Special Issue, Journal of Historical Sociology. 33(10). “Capitalism and American Empire.” March 2020.
How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West. London: Pluto Press, 2019.
American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers: Cooperation or Conflict?
Co-Edited with Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. (Leiden University). Routledge, 2017.
Peer-Reviewed Papers
“Historicizing the Prison in the History of Capitalism,” Journal of World Systems Research 31, no. 1 (2025): 263–85
“Marx and Engels on Capitalism and Prisons.” Journal of Classical Sociology. Online first, January, 2025.
“American Capitalism and the Decline of Debtors’ Prison in the 19th Century.” Critical Sociology. Currently published early access, October 2024.
“Capitalism and the Creation of the U.S. Constitution.” Studies in American Political Development. 37(2), 2023.
“The US, China, and Combined and Uneven Development.” Co-authored with Jake Lin (University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley). In The United States and China in the Era of Global Transformation: Geographies of Rivalry, Bristol University Press, 2023.
“Money, Commerce, and the History of Capitalism.” Science & Society. 85(4), 2021.
“Contested American Dominance: Global Order in an Era of Rising Powers.” Co-authored with Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, 2020.
“The Two Hundred and Fifty Year Transition: How the American Empire became Capitalist.” Journal of Historical Sociology. 30(3), 2017.
“What is, and what is not, a Capitalist Empire.” International Critical Thought. 6(1), 2016.
“Expanding Geopolitical Economy: A Critique of the Theory of Successive Hegemonies.” Research in Political Economy: Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy. Edited by Radhika Desai. Volume 30a, 2015.
“American Power, East Asian Regionalism, and Emerging Powers: In or Against Empire?” Third World Quarterly. 34(7), 2013.
Op-Eds, Book Reviews, and Interviews
“Dependency Theory” and “William Appleman Williams.” Entries in Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science, Edward Elgar, 2024.
“Critical Limits of the New History of Capitalism,” Spectre, July 2021.
Interview, Flash Forward, “What Could a Better Economy Look Like?” 2021.
Interview, Just as it Sounds, on Experience of Adjuncts in the University. 2020.
Interview with The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History. June 2019.
"White Terror and American Capital." American Sociological Association Marxist Sociology Blog, March 2019.
"Has America Always Been Capitalist?" Open Democracy: Transformations, February 2019.
"The Real History of Imperialism: A Comment on Recent Debates." Review of African Political Economy (Imperialism in the 21st Century Debate), February 2019.
"Imperialism and Capitalism: As American as Apple Pie?" The Bullet February 2019.
James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., “US Hegemony and Rising Powers in the Era of Trump.” E-International Relations. February 2018.
James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. “Is American Power in Decline? Rising Powers in the Era of Trump.” Rising Powers in Global Governance. February 2018.
“The West, ISIS, and the Legacy of Empire.” Policy Trajectories. December 2015.
“The BRICS and American Global Power.” International Policy Digest. November 2015.
Patrick Bond and Ana Garcia (Eds.). BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, October 2015.
Radhika Desai. Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization, and Empire. Review of Political Economy, September 2014.
“American Empire, Global Crisis, and the Rise of China: An Interview with Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin.” International Critical Thought. 3(2), 2013.
Alexander Gallas, Lars Bretthauer, John Kannankulam, and Ingo Stützle (Eds). Reading Poulantzas. Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 2013.
Dilip K. Das. Journal of International and Global Studies, 3(2). The Asian Economy: Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis, 2012.
Christopher M. Dent. East Asian Regionalism. East Asian Integration Studies, 2011.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Assistant Professor, Political Science/Sociology
U.S. Federal Government & Politics
American Political Development
Money, Power, and Politics
Senior Research Seminar: American Political Development
Social Theory
Social Problems
Lecturer, Political Science
U.S. Federal Government & Politics
Villanova University
Adjunct Faculty, Sociology
Introduction to Sociology
La Salle University
Adjunct Faculty, Sociology
Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary Societies
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Faculty, Sociology
Classical Social Theory
Introduction to Sociology
Wealth and Power
Social Problems
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Faculty, Sociology
The History and Significance of Race in America
Race and Poverty in the Americas
Introduction to Sociology
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA
Adjunct Faculty
Global Issues
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Adjunct Faculty
Research Methods
Globalizing US Power
US, China, and Emerging Powers
Video Games and Global Capitalism
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Social Theory
Post University, Waterbury, CT
Part-Time Distance Learning Instructor
Introduction to Sociology
Sociology of Alcohol and Drugs
Sociology of Family
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Other Research Experience
Research Assistant for Professor Leo Panitch
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Fall 2008 to Summer 2009
PANELS/CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Co-organizer of Social Science History Association Annual Conference 2025, States, Politics & Society Section (37 panels).
Co-organizer of Social Science History Association Annual Conference 2024, States & Society Section (18 panels).
“Capitalism and American Political Development,” co-organized with Jeffrey Broxmeyer, Social Science History Association, Chicago, November, 2022.
Discussion of “How America Became Capitalist.” Left Forum, NYC, June 2019.
Author Meets Critics “How America Became Capitalist.” Historical Materialism, NYC, April 2019.
“Capital, Violence, and American Imperialism,” Historical Materialism, Toronto, May 2016.
“American Hegemony, the Rise of China, and Future of the World Order.” International Studies Association Annual Conference. Toronto, March 2014.
PRESENTATIONS
“American Capitalism and the Decline of Debtors’ Prison in the 19th Century.” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Toronto, October 2024.
“Class Power and the History of the US State,” Southern Sociological Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 2024.
“Class Power and the Origins of the US State,” Social Science History Association, Washington DC, November, 2023.
“Capitalism and the Constitutional Convention,” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November, 2022.
“Data in the Rise of American Capitalism.” Social Science History Association, Chicago, November 2019.
“How America Became Capitalist.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, New York, August 2019.
Book Talk: “How America Became Capitalist.” Left Forum, NYC, June 2019.
Congress of the Humanities and Social Science/Socialist Studies: Circuits of Capital, Circuits of Solidarity. Vancouver, Canada “How America Became Capitalist.” June 2019.
Book Launch: “How America Became Capitalist: Imperial Expansion and the Conquest of the West.” Historical Materialism, NYC, April 2019
“Many Masculinities in the Rise of American Capitalism.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, Boston 2019.
“How America Became Capitalist.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, August 2018.
“Race, Gender, and American Expansion.” Global Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, June 2018.
“Westward the Course of Empire!: How the United States Became Capitalist.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference, Baltimore, February, 2018.
“Historical Materialism and the History of Empire.” Marx’s Capital at 150, Hofstra University, Long Island, NY, April 2017.
“The Historical Sociology of American Empire.” Historical Materialism, Toronto, May 2016.
“Gender, Empire, and the Origins of American Capitalism.” Historical Materialism, New York City, April 2015.
“The Making of a Capitalist Empire: The Transformation of American Power.” Binghamton University Sociology Talk Series. March 2015.
“Global Capitalism, World-Empire?” Global Studies Conference. Chicago, June 2014.
“American Power, East Asia, and Emerging Powers: In or Against Empire?” Historical Materialism. London, November 2013.
“American Empire and Emerging Powers.” Historical Materialism. New York City, April 2013.
“American Power, East Asian Regionalism, and Emerging Powers: In or Against Empire?” International Studies Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, April 2013.
“American Empire and East Asian Regionalism.” European Consortium for Political Research Graduate Student Conference, Bremen, Germany, June 2012.
“Imperial Space and Geographies of Resistance.” Historical Materialism. Toronto, May 2012.
“Theorizing American Empire in the Age of Global Capitalism.” Northeastern University Graduate Student Conference: Empires and Technologies and Empires in World History. Boston, March 2012.
“American Empire and Emerging Powers: Theory and History.” SUNY Binghamton Graduate Student Conference in the Historical Social Sciences. April 2012.
“Gramsci, Hegemony, and British Power: Were the British Hegemonic?” SUNY Binghamton Sociology Research Working Day, April 2011.
INVITED TALKS
University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley Department of Sociology Speaker Series, “‘Incarcerated for Debt, Punished for Misfortune’: Capitalism and the Decline of Debt Imprisonment in the Nineteenth Century United States,” April 2024.
“How America Became Capitalist.” Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia, July 2019.
“How America Became Capitalist.” People’s Forum, NYC, July 2019.
“White Terrorism and American Capitalism.” Left Forum, NYC, June 2019.
“The Political Economy of American Empire in a Multi-Polar World? An 'Empire as a Social Totality' Perspective.” From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Multipolarity: The Geopolitical Economy of the 21st Century World. Winnipeg, September 2015.
“Capital as Power: A Marxist Critique.” Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory. York University, Toronto, October 2010.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Books@Work, GGB Bearings West Deptford, NJ. February-March 2019.
Interviewed for NPR affiliate WSKG Radio. “Pay-Per-Student Policy Forces BU Adjuncts to Get Creative.” August 2015.
Interviewed for Time Warner Cable News. “Using Sex Appeal and Video Games to Sell Classes.” August 2015.
“Who Will Take Responsibility for Unfair System?” Connection: University Union Professors Binghamton Chapter. Newsletter 88, March 2015.
Sociology Graduate Student Union Representative to Graduate Student Employees Union (Communication Workers of America 1104). 2011-2012.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND PEER REVIEW
New Global Studies
International Journal of Comparative Sociology
Critical Sociology
International Critical Thought
Journal of Historical Sociology
Review of Social Economy
Review of African Political Economy
Geoforum
Palgrave Macmillan
Routledge
International Review of Social History
Science and Society
New Political Science
Rethinking Marxism
Manchester University Press
Journal of Classical Sociology
Social Science History Association “States & Society” Network Representative, 2023-current.
Graduate Student Paper Award Committee, Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association, 2019-2020, 2020-2021.
Conference Organizer: Fourth Biennial Binghamton Graduate Student Conference on World Historical Social Science, 2014.
Conference Organizer: Third Biennial Binghamton Graduate Student Conference on World Historical Social Science, 2012.
Sociology Graduate Student Union Representative to Graduate Student Employees Union (Communication Workers of America 1104). 2011-2012.
Departmental Committee Experience
Student Outreach
Hiring Committee
Research Colloquium
New Faculty Support Committee
Department Chair Advisory Committee
Curriculum Committee
Degree Specialist
Travel and Awards Committee
Graduate Curriculum Committee