Jackie Smith

Department of Sociology

University of Pittsburgh

2400 Posvar Hall, 230 Bouquet St.

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-648-7594

Last updated: April 2016

Education 1996 Ph.D. Department of Government and International Studies. Dissertation “Organizing

Global Action: Transnational Social Movements and World Politics.” University of Notre

Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

1995 M.A. International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana

1990 B.A., World Politics & Peace & World Order Studies. The Catholic University of

America, Washington D.C.

Professional Positions

Fall 2011- Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

2011-2019 Editor, Journal of World-Systems Research

2012- 2015 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

2005- 2011 Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame

2006-2009 Senior Fellow, Gender Studies Program, University of Notre Dame

2008-2009 Director, Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change,

University of Notre Dame

2005-2009 Adjunct Scholar, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster

University, Hamilton Ontario

2004-2005 Visiting Scholar, Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster

University

2002-2005 Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at

Stony Brook

1997-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at

Stony Brook

2002-2003 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Stony

Brook

1996-1997 Visiting Fellow, The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,

University of Notre Dame

Books and Edited Collections

Forthcoming Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, and John Markoff, Editors.

Social Movements and World-System Transformation. Routledge/Taylor and Francis

Publishers.

2014 Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn,

Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Donatella della Porta, Ellen Reese, Peter

Jay Smith Rolando Vászuez. Global Democracy and the World Social Forums, 2nd

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Edition. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.

Books and Edited Collections (Continued)

2013 Jackie Smith and Ernesto Verdeja, Editors. Social Movements, Globalization, and

Peacebuilding (Syracuse University Press).

2012 Social Movements in the World-System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation (with

Dawn Wiest) American Sociological Association, Rose Series in Sociology (Russell Sage

Foundation).

2012 Handbook of World Social Forum Activism. (Co-edited with Scott Byrd, Ellen Reese, and

Elizabeth Smythe) Paradigm Publishers.

2008 Jackie Smith, Social Movements for Global Democracy. The Johns Hopkins University

Press. [Reprinted: Chapter 6, in The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 2nd

ed, Jeff Goodwin & James M. Jasper, Eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009; Chapter 10 in Luc

Reydams, Ed. Global Activism Reader New York: Continuum, 2011.]]

2007 Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn,

Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Donatella della Porta, Ellen Reese, Peter

Jay Smith Rolando Vászuez. The World Social Forums and the Challenge of Global

Democracy. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers. [Reprinted: Chapter 1 in Globalization: the

Greatest Hits: Global Studies Reader, Manfred B. Steger, Ed., 2010, Paradigm

Publishers]

2008 Co-editor, with Ellen Reese, special issue of Mobilization: an International Journal,

“The World Social Forums” Vol. 13(4).

2005 Joe Bandy and Jackie Smith, eds. Coalitions Across Borders: Transnational Protest and

the Neoliberal Order. Boulder, Colo.: Rowman & Littlefield.

2002 Jackie Smith and Hank Johnston, eds. Globalizing Resistance: Transnational Dimensions

of Social Movements. Boulder, Colo.: Rowman & Littlefield.

2001 Editor, special issue of Mobilization: an International Journal, “Globalization &

Resistance” Vol. 6 (1).

1997 Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, eds. Transnational Social

Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse

University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2014 “Counter-hegemonic Networks and the Transformation of Global Climate Politics:

Rethinking Movement-State Relations” Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal

of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought (January): 1-19.

2012 Jackie Smith and Bob Glidden “Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory

Democracy.” Social Movement Studies 11(3-4):288-294.

2012 Jackie Smith, “Connecting Social Movements And Political Moments: Bringing Movement Building Tools From Global Justice To Occupy Wall Street Activism” Interface 4(2):369-382. http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Interface-4-2-Smith.pdf

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Peer-Reviewed Publications (Continued) 2008 Jackie Smith, Jeffrey S. Juris, and the USSF Research Collective, “We are the Ones We

have been Waiting For: The U.S. Social Forum in Context” Mobilization 13(4):373-394.

[Translated (French) Special issue of écosociété on Alter-globalization, Pierre Beaudet,

Raphaël Canet and Marie-Josée Massicotte, Eds.; Reprinted: A Handbook of the World

Social Forums, J.Smith, S. Byrd, E.Reese, and E. Smythe, Eds. 2011 Paradigm

Publishers]

2007 Dawn Wiest and Jackie Smith. “Explaining Participation in Regional Transnational

Social Movement Organizations” International Journal of Comparative Sociology

48:137-166.

2006 Dawn Wiest and Jackie Smith. "Regional Institutional Contexts and Patterns of

Transnational Social Movement Organization." Korea Observer 37(1):93-128.

2005 Jackie Smith and Dawn R. Wiest. “The Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society:

National and Global Influences on Transnational Association” Social Forces 84(2):621-

652.

2005 “Building Bridges or Building Walls? Explaining Regionalization among Transnational

Social Movement Organizations” Mobilization 10(2): 251-270.

2004 “Exploring Connections between Globalization and Political Mobilization” in Journal of

World-Systems Research X(1):255-285. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2004.312.

Reprinted in: Transforming Globalization: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post

9/11 Era Edited by Bruce Podobnik and Thomas Reifer (2005 Brill; Reprinted in 2009 by

Haymarket Books); Translated (Portuguese) in Social Agenda of International Relations

International Relations Department, PUC: Minas, Brazil.

2002 "Bridging Global Divides?: Strategic Framing and Solidarity in Transnational Social

Movement Organizations." International Sociology 17 (4):505-528.

2001 Jackie Smith, John McCarthy, Clark McPhail, and Boguslaw Augustin."From Protest to

Agenda-Building: Description Bias in Media Coverage of Protest Events in Washington,

D.C." Social Forces 79:1397-1423.

2001 "Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements."

Mobilization 6:1-20. Reprinted in: Globalization and Resistance: Transnational

Dimensions of Social Movements. Jackie Smith and Hank Johnston, eds. Rowman &

Littlefield Publishers (2002).

2000 "Framing the Nonproliferation Debate: Transnational Activism and International Nuclear

Weapons Negotiations." Pp. 55-82 in Research in Social Movements, Conflict and

Change, vol. 22, edited by P. Coy. Greenwood CT: JAI.

1999 Jackie Smith, Melissa Bolyard, and Anna Ippolito."Human Rights and the Global

Economy: a Response to Meyer." Human Rights Quarterly 21:207-219.

1998 "Global Civil Society? Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Social

Capital." American Behavioral Scientist 42:93-107. Reprinted in: Beyond Tocqueville:

Social Capital in Comparative Perspective. Bob Edwards, Michael Foley, and Mario

Diani, eds. University Press of New England (2001). Translated into Serbo-Croatian

(2004) by Milan Brdar.

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Peer-Reviewed Publications (Continued)

1998 Jackie Smith, Ron Pagnucco, and George Lopez. 1998. "Globalizing Human Rights:

Report on a Survey of Transnational Human Rights NGOs." Human Rights Quarterly

20:379-412.

1997 "Research Note: Non-Response Bias in Organizational Surveys." Nonprofit and

Voluntary Sector Quarterly 26 (3) 359-368.

1996 John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail, and Jackie Smith. 1996. "Images of Protest: Selection

Bias in Media Coverage of Washington, D.C. Demonstrations." American Sociological

Review 61:478-499. Reprinted: Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen 9:26-45.

1996 Sam Marullo, Ron Pagnucco, and Jackie Smith. 1996. "Frame Changes and Social

Movement Contraction: U.S. Peace Movement Framing After the Cold War."

Sociological Inquiry 66:1-28.

1995 "Transnational Political Processes and the Human Rights Movement." Pp. 185-220 in

Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change, vol. 18, edited by L. Kriesberg, M.

Dobkowski, and I. Walliman. Greenwood CT: JAI. Reprinted in: Steven Buechler and

Kurt Cylke, eds. Social Movements: Perspectives and Issues. Mayfield Publishing

(1996).

1994 Jackie Smith, Ron Pagnucco, and Winnie Romeril."Transnational Social Movement

Organizations in the Global Political Arena." Voluntas 5:121-154.

1993 Ron Pagnucco and Jackie Smith. 1993. "The Peace Movement and the Formulation of

U.S. Foreign Policy." Peace and Change 18:157-181.

1992 "The 1989 Chinese Student Movement: Lessons for Nonviolent Activists." Peace and

Change 17:82-101.

Chapters in Books Forthcoming Jackie Smith. “Human Rights City Initiatives as a Peoples Peace Process.” In

Peoples Peace Processes. Edited by Yasmin Saikia.

Forthcoming. Jackie Smith and Jacqueline Patterson. “Environmental Justice Initiatives for

Community Resilience: Food Sovereignty, Just Transitions, and Human Rights Cities,”

In Resilience, Environmental Justice & the City, Edited by Beth Schaefer Caniglia,

Manuel Vallee, and Beatrice Frank. Routledge/Taylor and Francis Publishers (Equity,

Justice and the Sustainable City Series).

Forthcoming. Jackie Smith and Jacqueline Patterson. “Global Climate Justice Activism: “The

New Protagonists” and their Projects for a Just Transition” In Ecologically Unequal

Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective. R. Scott

Frey, Paul K. Gellert, and Harry F. Dahms, editors. Palgrave Macmillan, expected

publication, 2016.

Forthcoming. Jackie Smith and Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum. “Transnational Feminism and

United Nations Global Conferences.” In Social Movements and World-System

Transformation. Jackie Smith, Michael Goodhart, Patrick Manning, and John Markoff,

Editors. Routledge/Taylor and Francis Publishers.

2016 Jackie Smith. “Social Movements and Political Moments: Reflections on the

Intersections of Global Justice Movements and Occupy Wall Street.” Pp. 131-147 in

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Street Politics in the Age of Austerity: From the Indignados to Occupy. Edited by Marcos

Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour, and Héloïse Nez. Amsterdam University Press.

2016 Jackie Smith. “Social Movements in the Multilateral Arena.” Pp. 607-618 in The Oxford

Handbook of Social Movements. Edited by Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani.

Oxford University Press.

2014 Jackie Smith, “Localizing International Human Rights: Engaging with the World Social

Forum Process” pp. 57-62 in Sociologists in Action: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class,

Edited by Kathleen Odell Korgen, Jonathan M. White, Shelley K. White. Thousand Oaks,

CA: SAGE. (May)

2013 Jackie Smith, Rebecca Burns and Rachel Miller. “The World Social Forums as

Peacebuilding” In Jackie Smith and Ernesto Verdeja, Eds. Globalization, Social

Movements and Peacebuilding.

2012 “Developing Local Strategies for Global Change: Working for Human Rights and

Economic Empowerment in the Midwest” pp. 120-143 in Maney, Gregory, Rachel Kutz-

Flamenbaum, Deana Rohlinger and Jeff Goodwin. Strategies for Social Change.

University of Minnesota Press.

2012 Jackie Smith and Nicole Doerr, “Democratic Innovation in the U.S. and European Social

Forums” Pp. 339-359 in A Handbook of the World Social Forums. J. Smith, S. Byrd, E.

Reese, and E. Smythe, Eds. Paradigm Publishers.

2012 “Transnational Activism and Global Social Change” Pp. 9-26 in Global Civil Society:

Shifting Powers in a Shifting World. Heidi Moksnes and Mia Melin, Eds. Uppsala:

Uppsala Center for Sustainable Development.

2010 Jackie Smith and Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum. “Prisoners of our Concepts: Liberating the

Study of Social Movements” Pp. 211-227 in Transnational Challengers: How Activism

Beyond Borders Changes the Face of Protest, Simon Teune, editor. Berghahn Books.

2010 “Power, Interests, and the United Nations Global Compact” pp. 89-113 in Globalization,

Private-Sector Authority, and New Modes of Democratic Policy-Making, Tony Porter and

Karsten Ronit, editors. State University of New York Press.

2009 “Globalization and Strategic Peacebuilding” Pp. 247-269 in Daniel Philpott and Gerard

Powers, editors. Strategies of Peace. New York: Oxford University Press.

2009 “Contested Globalizations: Social Movements and the Struggle for Global Democracy.”

Pp. 300-316 In Steven Bernstein and William D. Coleman editors. Unsettled Legitimacy:

Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era. University of British

Columbia Press.

2008 Jackie Smith, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, and Christopher Hausmann. “New Politics

Emerging at the U.S. Social Forum” Pp. 42-55 in The World and US Social Forums: A

Better World Is Possible and Necessary Edited by Judith Blau and Marina Karides. Brill.

2008 Graham Knight and Jackie Smith, “The Global Compact and Its Critics: Activism, Power

Relations, and Corporate Social Responsibility” Pp. 191-214 in Discipline and Punishment in

Global Politics. Janie Leatherman, Ed. Palgrave Macmillan.

2007 Jackie Smith and Tina Fetner, “Structural Approaches in the Sociology of Social

Movements,” Pp. 13-57 in Handbook of Social Movements: Social Movements Across

Disciplines Bert Klandermans and Conny Roggeband, editors. New York: Springer.

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2007 “The Rise of Global Public Opinion” in George Modelski, Editor. Encyclopedia of Life

Support Systems, (UNESCO).

2006 Jackie Smith and Dawn Wiest. “National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society”

pp. 289-316 in Global Social Change, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Editor. Johns Hopkins

University Press.

2006 “Social Movements and Multilateralism: Moving from the 20th to 21st Century” pp. 395-

421 in Multilateralism Under Challenge? Power, International Order, and Structural

Change Edited by Edward Neuman, Ramesh Thakur, and John Tirman United Nations

University Press.

2006 “Struggles for Global Society in a World System” pp. 51-68 in Public Sociologies Reader,

edited by Judith Blau and Keri E. Iyall Smith. Rowman & Littlefield.

2005 “Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Organizations” pp. 226-248 in

Gerald Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer Zald, eds. Social Movements

and Organizational Theory. Cambridge University Press. Reprinted in Doug McAdam

and David Snow, eds. Social Movements 2nd Edition (2009, Oxford University Press).

2004 “Transnational Processes and Movements” in The Blackwell Companion to Social

Movements, David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds., Oxford:

Blackwell Publishers.

2003 “Transnational Activism, Institutions, and Global Democratization” in Transnational

Activism in Asia: Problems of Power and Democracy. Nicola Piper and Anders Uhlin,

eds. Routledge.

2002 Bert Klandermans and Jackie Smith. 2002. "Survey Research: a Case for Comparative

Designs." Pp. 3-43 in Methods in Social Movement Research, edited by B. Klandermans

and S. Staggenborg. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2002 Kathryn Sikkink and Jackie Smith."Infrastructures for Change: Transnational

Organizations, 1953-1993." Pp. 24-44 in Restructuring World Politics: The Power of

Transnational Agency and Norms, edited by S. Khagram, J. Riker, and K. Sikkink.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

2001 "Globalization and Political Contention: Brokering Roles of Transnational Social

Movement Organizations." (in German translation) Pp. 97-118 in Globalisisierung,

Partizipation, Protest, edited by A. Klein, R. Koopmans, and H. Geiling. Germany:

Leske & Budrich Publishers.

2001 Ivana Eterović and Jackie Smith. "From Altruism to a New Transnationalism? A Look at

Transnational Social Movements." Pp. 197-218 in Political Altruism: Solidarity

Movements in International Perspective, edited by M. Giugni and F. Passy. New York:

Rowman and Littlefield.

2000 "Social Movements, International Institutions, and Local Empowerment." Pp. 65-84 in

Global Institutions and Local Empowerment, edited by K. Stiles. New York and London:

MacMillan Press.

1999 "Global Politics and Transnational Social Movement Strategies: The Transnational

Campaign Against Trade in Toxic Wastes." Pp. 170-188 in Social Movements in a

Globalizing World, edited by H. Kriesi, D. D. Porta, and D. Rucht. London: MacMillan.

1999 "Global Civil Society, Social Movement Organizations, and the Global Politics of

Nuclear Security." Pp. 139-172 in International Security Management and the United

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Nations, edited by M. Alagappa and T. Inoguchi. New York: United Nations University

Press.

1998 John D. McCarthy, Clark McPhail, Jackie Smith, and Louis Crishock. 1998. "Electronic

and Print Media Representations of Washington D.C. Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991: A

Demography of Description Bias." Pp. 113-130 in Acts of Dissent: New Developments in

the Study of Protest, edited by D. Rucht, R. Koopmans, and F. Neidhardt. New York:

Rowman & Littlefield.

1997 Smith, Jackie. 1997. "Characteristics of the Modern Transnational Social Movement

Sector." Pp. 42-58 in Transnational Social Movements and World Politics: Solidarity

Beyond the State, edited by J. Smith, C. Chatfield, and R. Pagnucco. Syracuse, NY:

Syracuse University Press.

1997 "Building Political Will after UNCED: EarthAction International." Pp. 175-191 in

Transnational Social Movements and World Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State, edited

by J. Smith, C. Chatfield, and R. Pagnucco. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Reprinted in: The Globalization Reader Frank J. Lechner and John Boli, eds. Blackwell

Publishers (2000).

1997 Jackie Smith, Ron Pagnucco, and Charles Chatfield."Transnational Social Movements

and Global Politics: A Theoretical Framework." Pp. 59-80 in Transnational Social

Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State, edited by J. Smith, C.

Chatfield, and R. Pagnucco. Syracuse NY: Syracuse University Press. Reprinted in: A

Civil Society Reader, John Hall and Frank Trentmann, eds. (2003, Palgrave)

1996 John D. McCarthy, Jackie Smith, and Mayer Zald. 1996. "Accessing Media,Electoral and

Government Agendas." Pp. 291-311 in Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements:

Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures and Cultural Framings, edited by D.

McAdam, J. McCarthy, and M. Zald. New York, NY: Cambridge Univ. Press.

1996 Smith, Jackie. 1996. "Methodological Appendix: Survey of Elite Opinion on Nuclear

Policy." Pp. 109-116 in India and the Bomb, edited by D. Cortright and A. Mattoo. Notre

Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

Other Publications

2015 “Sociology’s Nero Syndrome?” in Mobilizing Ideas

https://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/ Dialogue on Climate Activism (May 2015).

2015 “Defending the Global Knowledge Commons” Open Movements series of the

International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Social Classes and

Social Movements, Opendemocracy.net. At: https://www.opendemocracy.net/jackie-

smith/defending-global-knowledge-commons.

2014 “The Open Access Movement and Activism for the Knowledge Commons” in American

Sociological Association Footnotes May/June 2014.

2013 “Transnational Social Movements” pp. 1347-1351 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia

of Social and Political Movements, Vol. 3. Edited by David Snow, Donatella Della

Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam.Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.

2011 “Globalizations Forum on Middle East Protests: Global Dimensions” Globalizations

8(5):635-639.

2009 Ana Velitchkova, Jackie Smith, and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, “Windows on the Ninth

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World Social Forum in Belém” Societies Without Borders 4 (2009): 193-208.

2008 Jackie Smith, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Christopher Hausmann. “New Politics

Emerging at the United States Social Forum.” In Societies Without Borders.

2006 “Perspectives: Do Social Movements Offer Viable Alternatives?” in Kasarinlan:

Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 21(2):152-157.

2006 “Economic Globalization and Labor Rights: Towards Global Solidarity? Notre Dame

Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 20(2):873-881. Reprinted in: Globalization

vis-à-vis Labor Issues ICFAI University Law Books: India.

2005 “Response to Wallerstein: The Struggle for Global Society in a World System” Public

Sociologies Essay, Social Forces 83 (3):1279-1285.

2004 “The World Social Forum and the Challenges of Global Democracy” Global Networks

4(3) October. www.Blackwell-Synergy.com/links/toc/glob

2003 “Anti-war Movement Must Democratize Foreign Policy Process” in Syracuse Peace

Action News.

2001 “Made in (Corporate) America: Looking Behind the Anti-Globalization Label.” In

Dissent (Fall) pp. 57-59.

2001 “Cyber-Subversion in the Information Economy” in Dissent (Spring) Pp. 48-52.

Reprinted in: Lettera Internazionale.

2000 “Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements,”

Working Paper No. 14, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.

2000 Jackie Smith and Timothy Patrick Moran, “WTO 101: Myths About the World Trading

System” in Dissent (Spring) Pp. 66-70. Reprinted: Annual Editions, Global Politics

2001-2.

2000 “A Right or a Commodity Trade Agreement Could have Dire Impact on Education” in

The Voice (United University Professions newsletter) Vol. 27 (March) p. 15.

1999 “Transnational Associations” In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. San

Diego: Academic Press.

1995 George A. Lopez, Jackie Smith and Ron Pagnucco, “The Global Tide.” Bulletin of the

Atomic Scientists 51 (July/August). Reprinted in: Annual Editions, Global Politics

1996/7.

1994 “Organizing Global Action.” Peace Review 6:419-425.

1993 “Frame or be Framed.” Peace Review 5:109-115. Reprinted in: Robert Elias and

Jennifer Turpin, eds. Rethinking Peace. Boulder: Lynn Reinner.

Book Reviews 2016 Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity, by William I. Robinson. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2014. Contemporary Sociology 45(2):231-233.

2016 Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health. By Keshavjee, Salmaan.

Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2014. Pp. 240. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95

(paper). In Social Science Review 89(4):761-764.

2014 Wendy H. Wong. Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human

Rights. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (2012). Contemporary Sociology 43: 432-434

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2013 Lang, Sabine. NGOs, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere. New York: Cambridge

University Press (2013). Swiss Political Science Review 19.4 (2013): 587-590.

2012 Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age. By Jennifer Earl and

Katrina Kimport, MIT Press 2011. Political Science Quarterly 127(2):332-3.

2012 Alter-Globalization: Becoming Actors in the Global Age. By Geoffrey Pleyers, Polity

Press, 2011. Mobilization 17(2):221-2.

2011 Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization. By Jeffrey S.

Juris. Duke University Press, 2008. In ID: International Dialogue, A Multidisciplinary

Journal of World Affairs 1:67-72.

2010 Global Justice Networks: Geographies of Transnational Solidarity. By Paul Routledge

and Andrew Cumbers. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2009. In

American Journal of Sociology.

2009 Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization Saturnino M. Borras Jr,

Marc Edelman and Crist´obal Kay (eds). In Development and Change.

2009 Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization By Peter J. Spiro. In

Perspectives on Politics.

2009 Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice, Edited by Heather Gautney,

Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson and Neil Smith. In Contemporary Sociology 38(6):555-

556.

2008 Peace Action: Past, Present and Future. Edited by Glen Harold Stassen and Lawrence S.

Wittner. In Peace and Change (Fall)

2008 Latin American Social Movements in the Twenty-First Century: Resistance, Power and

Democracy. Edited by Richard Stahler-Sholk, Harry E. Vanden, and Glen David

Kuecker. In Journal of World Systems Research.

2007 Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists. by Shareen

Hertel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. In International Studies Review 9(2):290-292.

2007 Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks By Donatella della

Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca, and Herbert Reiter. Minneapolis,

Minnesota: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006. In Contemporary Sociology 36(2):191-192.

2006 The New Transnational Activism. By Sidney Tarrow. New York: Cambridge University

Press. In Canadian Journal of Sociology 31(4):546-549.

2003 Globalizations and Social Movements: Culture, Power and the Transnational Public

Sphere John A. Guidry, Michael D. Kennedy, and Mayer N. Zald, eds. In Social Forces.

2000 Constructing World Cultures John Boli and George Thomas, eds. In Social Forces 78(4):

1573-1575.

1999 Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics by Margaret Keck

and Kathryn Sikkink. In American Political Science Review 93(3):757-8.

1998 Coalitions and Political Movements, Thomas R. Rochon and David S. Meyer, eds. In

Mobilization 3:265-266.

1994 Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban and the Freeze by Robert Kleidman. In

Contemporary Sociology 23.

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Selected Presentations and Conference Papers 2015 Jackie Smith, “Global Climate Activism amid Deepening Crisis: Tracing Activist

Networks from UNCED to Rio+20” Presented at the International Studies Association

Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 18.

2014 Jackie Smith, Melanie Hughes, and Brittany Duncan. “Social Movement Networks and

Changing Patterns of Global Authority, 1983-2013” Presented at the 2014 American

Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2013 “Counter-Hegemonic Networks and the Transformation of Global Climate Politics:

Rethinking Movement-State Relations” Presented at International Studies Association

Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 3-6.

2012 Global Studies Association Keynote Panel: “Historical and Global Dimensions of

Occupy Wall Street” University of Victoria May 5-7.

2010 “Global Justice Networks: Organizational and Institutional Dynamics” Presented at the

International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, Feb. 17-20.

2009 “Building a Democratic Globalization Network: Imaginaries, Infrastructures,

Possibilities” Invited Thematic Panel Presentation, American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting, August, San Francisco. (Organizer, Christopher Chase-Dunn)

2008 “Engaged Scholarship: How Public and Policy Sociology Can Affect Movement

Cultures, Strategies, and Outcomes” Presented at Collective Behavior and Social

Movements Workshop, August, New York.

2007 “Globalization and Strategic Peacebuilding,” Presented at the American Sociological

Association Annual Meeting, August 11, New York.

2006 "North-South Divides in Transnational Movement Organizations: Assessing Sources of

inequality and prospects for global party formation" Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Jackie Smith, and

Dawn Wiest. International Studies Association Annual Meeting, March, 2006, San

Diego, California.

2004 “Democratizing Globalization? Impacts and Limitations of Transnational Social

Movements” Presented at annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San

Francisco, California, 15 August.

2004 “Jihad vs. Global Village? Explaining Regionalization Among Transnational Social

Movement Organizations” Presented at International Studies Association Annual

Meeting, Montreal. 18 March.

2002 Dawn R. Wiest, Jackie Smith, and Ivana Eterović, “Uneven Globalization: Explaining

Variable Participation in Transnational Social Movement Organizations,” Presented at

the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, 17 August, Chicago.

2002 “Social Movement Organizations and Globalization Processes,” (Invited) Conference on

Social Movements and Organizations. University of Michigan, 10-12 May.

2000 “Globalization and Contention: Brokering Roles of Transnational Social Movement

Organizations” German Political Science Association Meeting 1-5 Oct. Halle, Germany.

1999 Jackie Smith and Pauline Cullen “Transnational Social Movement Organizations and

Global Solidarity” Conference on Ethics and Globalization: Local and Cosmopolitan

Values in a Supranational Age” Yale University 16-18 April.

1998 “Transnational Social Movements and Local Empowerment” Presented at annual meeting

of the International Studies Association, 17 March, Minneapolis.

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1996 “Science, Politics, and Power: Transnational Citizens’ Efforts Against Nuclear War.”

United Nations University Symposium, The United Nations in the 21st Century:

International Peace and Security 6-7 November, Tokyo Japan (Invited).

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2016 Global Studies Center Faculty Fellowship, “Human Rights Cities and Globalization”

University of Pittsburgh

2014 Friends of the Library Award, University of Pittsburgh University Library System

2013 Jackie Smith and Melanie Hughes, “Transnational Networks Amid Global Crisis and

Change” National Science Foundation (#SES1323130) ($183,000)

2013 Honorable Mention, Best Book Award competition, American Sociological Association

Section on Political Economy and the World-System for Social Movements in the World-

System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation (with Dawn Wiest).

2013 Honorable Mention, Best Book Award competition, American Sociological Association

Section on Global and Transnational Sociology for Social Movements in the World-

System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation (with Dawn Wiest).

2013 Collaborative Research Initiative Grant, the Humanities Center of the University of

Pittsburgh, for international conference on "Social Movements and World-System

Transformation: Prospects and Challenges." ($5,000) 2013 Hewlett International Major Impact Grant, University of Pittsburgh’s University Center

for International Studies, for international conference on "Social Movements and World-

System Transformation: Prospects and Challenges." ($5,000)

2012 Global Academic Partnership Award, University of Pittsburgh International Workshop

“Social Movements and Global Crisis: Coalition & Conflict in Contemporary Social

Movements” ($20,000).

2010 Honorable Mention, Best Book Award competition, American Sociological Association

Section on Political Economy of the World System, for Social Movements for Global

Democracy (2008, Johns Hopkins University Press).

2010 Honorable Mention, Best Book Award competition, Global Division of the Society for

the Study of Social Problems, for Social Movements for Global Democracy (2008, Johns

Hopkins University Press)

2009 Semi-finalist, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for Social

Movements for Global Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

2009 Faculty Scholarship Award Program, University of Notre Dame, “Social Movements and

Global Politics Tracing Movement Activism in the United States Social Forum”

($10,000)

2008 Finalist, North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement Award for

Social Movements for Global Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

2008 “Research Workshop: Globalization, Social Movements and Peacebuilding.” Institute for

Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Interim Awards: Mini-Conferences. ($5,000).

2008 “Research Workshop: Globalization, Social Movements and Peacebuilding.” Kroc

Institute for International Peace Studies Seed Grant. ($5,000).

2007 World Society Foundation research paper competition, second prize for co-authored

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paper (with Dawn Wiest) “Explaining Participation in Regional Transnational Social

Movement Organizations” ($5000).

2007 “Collaborative Research in Civil Dynamics and the World Social Forum Process,”

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Travel Grant (with Daniel Myers and Erika

Summers-Effler) ($4380)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships (Continued)

2007 “Collaborative Research and Training on the World Social Forum Process” Faculty

Research Program Award, Notre Dame Graduate School/Office of Research. ($10,000).

2006 “Research Workshop: North American World Social Forum Project” Notre Dame

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Interim Awards: Mini-Conferences. ($5,000).

2006 “Research Workshop: North American World Social Forum Project” The Joan B. Kroc

Institute for International Peace Studies Research Seed Grant. ($5,000).

2003-2005 “Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Mobilization, 1963-2003.”

($135,000) Funded by the National Science Foundation.

2001-2002 “Globalizing Resistance: Anti-Trade Liberalization Protest and its Implications

for World Society.” ($22,442). Funded by the World Society Foundation, Zürich

Switzerland.

2000-2001 “Globalization and Social Movements: Exploring Connections between Global

Integration and Political Mobilization” ($5000) Funded by the American Sociological

Association/ National Science Foundation Funds for Advancing the Discipline Small

Grants Program.

2000-2001 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action/Diversity Leave Grant, State

University of New York United University Professions.

1997-1999 “Local Implications of Transnational Action: a Survey of EarthAction Partner

Organizations” ($45,000). Funded by the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research

Fund.

1995-1997 George A. Lopez, Jackie Smith and Ron Pagnucco, “Protecting Human Rights: A

Survey of Transnational Non-governmental Organizations Working for Human Rights”

($50,000). Funded by the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

1994-1995 Dissertation year fellowship, Department of Government and International

Studies, University of Notre Dame.

1993 Janie Leatherman, Ron Pagnucco, and Jackie Smith, “International Institutions and

Transnational Social Movement Organizations Workshop” ($6300) Funded by the Social

Science Research Council Committee on International Peace and Security.

1993 American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social

Movements Student Paper Award, “Transnational Political Processes and the Human

Rights Movement.”

1992 Co-recipient of Elise Boulding Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association

Peace and War Section, “Democracy and Foreign Policy: Political Opportunity and the

U.S. Peace Movement,” (with Ron Pagnucco).

1989 Winston Foundation for World Peace Student Fellowship.

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Invited Presentations (Selected)

2014 “Diversity and Inclusion: Lessons from Social Movements Research” Invited

presentation to Diversity and Inclusion Research Symposium, Purdue University. April

30.

2013 “The US Social Forum Process Meets Occupy Wall Street: Logics of Action, Modes of

Organization, & Prospects for Convergence” Invited conference, “Street Politics in the

Age of Austerity: From the Indignados to Occupy”, University of Montreal. February 21-

22.

2013 “Social Movements & Political Moments: Occupy Wall Street's Impact on Long-Term

Movements for Social Change” Drake University, April 10.

2012 “Social Movements in the World-System: the Politics of Crisis and Transformation,”

Vanderbilt University, March 1.

2012 “Transnational Activism and Global Transformation: Exploring Implications of Climate

Justice and Food Sovereignty Activism” Temple University, November 15.

2010 “Globalization, Crisis and the U.S. Social Forum.” Keynote panel address to conference

on “Globalization and the Grassroots,” Northeastern University, Boston, February 12.

2009 “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally within the World Social Forum Process: Prospects

and Challenges for Israeli and Global Civil Society” Keynote Address to International

Society for Third Sector Research Annual Conference, “Civil society and the global-local

nexus - Localization of international NGOs, internationalization of local civil society

organizations” Israel (March 19)

2009 Patterns of Transnational Organizing, 1950-2000” Presentation for Workshop, “Bridging

the Local/Global Divide: Transnational Advocacy in Theory and Practice” University of

Birmingham, UK. (June 25)

2009 “The Past, Present and Future of Global Justice Activism” Hibbert R. Roberts Memorial

Lecture, Illinois State University (September 24).

2008 “Are NGOs Changing World Politics?” Panel Presentation, the Hauser Center for

Nonprofit Organizations, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,

May 21.

2007 “Global Citizenship in the 21st Century” Keynote Address to Washington Institute for

Peace and Conflict Studies Annual Student Conference, Alverno College, Milwaukee,

Wisconsin, April 13.

2007 “Global Economies/ Global Lives: What’s Happening to the Individual” Panel participant

at “Alverno Debates” series on political, economic, and cultural dimensions of

contemporary issues, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 12.

2007 “The World Social Forums, Social Movements, & Global Democracy” Colloquium guest

at Washington State University Sociology Department, April 6.

2006 “Social Movements, Organization, and Global Change” Presentation to the Funders

Network on Trade and Globalization, Ford Foundation, New York (December 8).

2006 “Transnational Social Movements and Global Trade Politics” Presentation to Professor

Lauren Langman’s seminar, Loyola University, Chicago (April 22).

2006 “Economic Globalization and Labor Rights: Towards Global Solidarity?” Notre Dame

Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy Annual Symposium, Notre Dame Law School.

(April 4).

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Invited Presentations (Continued)

2004 SSRC-United Nations University-Sponsored Workshop: “Multilateralism Under

Challenge? Power, International Order and Structural Change” 29 and 30 November.

Ramesh Thakur and John Tirman, Projet co-directors.

2004 “Youth and Transnational Social Movements” Presentation at Social Science Research

Council strategy meeting, August.

2003 “Transnational Social Movements, Protest, and Global Democracy” Keynote address at

forum on “Transnational Advocacy: Origins, Impacts and Potential.” Sponsored by the

Inter-American Forum and University of Miami Latin American Studies Center. Nov. 14.

2002 “Transnational Coalitions and Movements,” Presentation at Syracuse University, 13

November.

2002 “Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Organizing,” Presentation at Hofstra

University, Sociology/Anthropology Department, 18 April.

2002 “Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Organizing,” Presented at

Globalization Seminar at Pittsburgh University, March 22.

2001 “Building International Social Movements in Response to Globalization,” Columbia

University Research Seminar on Globalization, Labor, and Popular Struggles, 19

November.

2001 “Research on Transnational Social Movements and Organizations” Presentation to

Seminar on Political Contention and Globalization at Cornell University, 26 November.

2001 “Research on Transnational Movements for Global Justice” Presentation to Social

Movements Seminar, Harvard University, 2 February.

2000 “The World Trade Organization and Public Higher Education,” Presentation to the

United University Professions Reform Caucus, 28 January, Albany, New York.

1999 “Transnational Social Movements” Presentation to student conference at Drake

University, 3-4 December.

1999 Invited Participant, Stanley Foundation Conference, “The Evolving Relations Between

NGOs and the UN System: Implications for Global Governance.” 21-23 October.

1999 Invited Participant, Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Women’s Human

Rights and U.S. Interests, New York, 22 September.

1999 “Globalizing Human Rights: The Work of Human Rights NGOs” City University of New

York Graduate Center Human Rights Seminar and Ph.D. Program in Political Science, 5

March.

Editorial Board Positions

Mobilization (Deputy Editor 2008-2011 )

Journal of World Systems Research (Editor, 2011-2016)

Globalizations

Studies in Social Justice

International Studies Quarterly (term ended Dec. 2013)

Participation & Conflict: Italian Journal of Political and Social Studies

il Dubbio, Transnational review of social and political analysis(2003-2006)

International Sociology (Co-editor 1998-2001)

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Other Professional Activities 2008-Present Member, Research Centre for the Critical Study of Global Power and Politics,

Trent University, Ontario Canada.

2005- Present Sociologists without Borders/ International Network of Scholar Activists liaison

to U.S. Social Forum Process.

2008 Session Organizer American Sociological Association Regular Session on

“Transnational Processes”

2008 Session Organizer, Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (with

Lesley Wood)

2006 Session Organizer, Thematic session on "Globalization & Civil Society:

Transgressing Boundaries in Theory, Research, and Practice" American

Sociological Association annual meeting, Montreal, August 13.

2003 Core advisory group member, “New Dimensions of Multilateralism Project,”

Center on International Cooperation, New York University.

Ongoing Consultation and advising of doctoral student research outside my home

department (Harvard University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Columbia

University, McMaster University)

2002-2004 Advisory board member, Center for the Study of Working Class Life, SUNY at

Stony Brook.

2000-2005 Course director, National Science Foundation Chautauqua Faculty Development

Program, “Globalization, Politics, and Institutions” (annual 3-day program)

2001 Lecture committee member, University of La Rochelle Conference, “NGOs and

Humanitarian Action: Between Transnational Activism and Public Action 12-13 April.

2000 Summer Fellow, Center for Advanced study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

University Summer Institute on Contentious Politics. 10 July-18 August, Doug McAdam

and Charles Tilly, directors.

1995 Academic Council on the United Nations System/American Society for International Law

Summer Workshop on International Organizations and Global Governance (August).

Professional Memberships American Sociological Association Sociologists Without Borders

Society for the Study of Social Problems International Studies Association

Global Studies Association (Board Member)

International Network of Scholar Activists

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Professional Service 1997-Present Reviewed manuscripts for: American Sociological Review, American Journal of

Sociology, Global Governance, Social Problems, International Sociology,

Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Mobilization, National Science

Foundation, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Social Forces, Social

Problems, Sociological Inquiry, International Studies Quarterly and others.

2007-Present Founding coordinator, Network Institute for Global Democratization, North

America Chapter.

2011 Organizer, American Sociological Association conference thematic session,

“Conflict and Coalition Building in Global Movements,” Las Vegas, Nevada.

2009-2010 Council member, American Sociological Association Section-in-formation on

Global and Transnational Sociology

2005-2007 Council member, American Sociological Association Section on Collective

Behavior and Social Movements

2000-2004 Academic Delegate (elected), United University Professions.

2000-2003 Council member, American Sociological Association Section on Political

Economy of the World System

2000 American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social

Movements Book Award Committee

1995-1999 Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Section on Peace, War, and

Social Conflict

1996-1999 Newsletter Editor, International Studies Association Peace Studies Section

1999 Contributed syllabi to the American Sociological Association Curriculum Guide:

“Internationalizing Sociology in the Age of Globalization,” Nathan Rousseau,

Editor.

1999 Panel Organizer, American Sociological Association Section on Collective

Behavior and Social Movements, “Transnational Dimensions of Social

Movements”

1998 Panel Organizer, American Sociological Association Section on Peace and War,

“Globalization and Inequality”

1995-1997 Council Member, American Sociological Association Section on Peace and War

1996 Committee on Publications, American Sociological Association Section on

Collective Behavior and Social Movements

1995 Student paper award committee, American Sociological Association Section on

Collective Behavior and Social Movements

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Other Service 2014- Member (Elected) of May First/People Link Leadership Council

2013-present Co-Coordinator, Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance

2008-Present Sociologists without Borders/ International Network of Scholar Activists,

Delegate to the United States Social Forum National Planning Committee

2012-Present Co-chair, United States Social Forum Media and Communications and

Technology Working Group (Coordinator of USSF Writers Network)

2008-2011 Member, United States Social Forum Documentation and Evaluation Working

Group

2007-Present Organizer, Michiana Social Forum

2005-Present Advisory Board member, EarthAction International Network

2006-Present Organizer, Michiana Community Currency

2007-2010 Advisory Board member, Ten Thousand Villages fair trade store, Mishawaka,

Indiana.

2006-2007 United States Social Forum National Planning Committee, Communications

Working Group

2003-2005 Advisory Board member, Long Island Freespace (youth & community

education/advocacy organization)

2000-2002 Advocacy Coordinator, Huntington Bicycle Club

2000-2002 Member, Town of Huntington Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board