ABOUT THE AUTHORS


                           

Christopher Chase-Dunn is Professor of
Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is
the author of Transnational Corporations and
Underdevelopment (with Volker Bornschier,
Praeger, 1985) and  Global Formation:
Structures of the World-Economy (Basil
Blackwell, 1989). He is currently working on
the problem of the transformation of modes of
production by comparing the modern global
political economy to earlier, smaller world-
systems.

Gary M. Feinman is an Associate Professor of
Anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison.   A Mesoamerican
archaeologist, he has participated in field
work in the Valleys of Oaxaca and Ejutla since
1977.  He is co-author of three books and has
written more than 30 articles on various
topics, including craft specialization,
demographic change, and regional analysis.

Andre Gunder Frank is Professor of Development
Economics and Social Sciences at the
University of Amsterdam. He has taught in
departments of anthropology, economics,
history, and sociology at Universities in
Europe, North and Latin America. His research
has centered primarily on Third World and
Latin American dependence (the "development of
underdevelopment"), history of the world
system, and the contemporary world economic
crisis. His work also ranges over
international political economy and relations,
marxism, organization theory and management,
peace research, socialism and social
movements. His 800 plus publications in 24
languages include 600 versions of articles,
chapters in over 100 readers/anthologies, and
over 100 different editions of his 30 books,
among them Capitalism and Underdevelopment in
Latin America, World Accumulation 1492-1789,
Crisis In the World Economy, and The European
Challenge.

Barry K. Gills did his postgraduate work at
the London School of Economics and Oxford. He
teaches in the Department of Politics at the
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Together
with Andre Gunder Frank, he is working on a
"World System History" which places world
accumulation at the center of the analysis and
encompasses five thousand years of world
system development. Other research interests
are in the International Political Economy of
East Asia, and the political economy of Korea
in particular. He is a Fellow of the
Transnational Institute, Amsterdam.

Thomas D. Hall is the Lester M. Jones
Professor of Sociology at DePauw University. 
He received his Ph.D. at the University of
Washington in 1981.  His book on the American
Southwest, Social Change in the Southwest,
1350-1880 (Published by University Press of
Kansas in its historical sociology series) has
been widely acclaimed.  He is currently
working on the incorporation of ethnic
minorities into the world-system in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and
comparing those processes with processes in
precapitalist world-systems.

Linda M. Nicholas is an Honorary Fellow in the
Department of Anthropology at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.  She has worked as an
archaeologist in Oaxaca since 1980.  In her
research she has taken a regional perspective
to the analysis of indigenous systems of land
use in both Mexico's Southern Highlands and
the southwestern United States.  

Peter Peregrine received his Ph.D. in
Anthropology from Purdue University in 1990,
and is now Assistant Professor of Anthropology
at Juniata College.  His research is focused
on the evolution of complex societies, with
particular emphasis on the rise of
Mississippian chiefdoms in the American
midcontinent. In future research efforts Dr.
Peregrine hopes to investigate the utility of
world-systems theory in developing a unified
theory of cultural evolution in eastern North
America. 

Stephen K. Sanderson is Professor of Sociology
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  His
main research interests are in the areas of
social theory, sociocultural evolution, and
comparative macrosociology.  He is the author
of Macrosociology:An Introduction to Human
Societies (Harper & Row, 1988; 2nd edition
1991) and Social Evolutionism: A Critical
History (Basil Blackwell, 1990).  He is
currently working on a book that will develop
and empirically demonstrate a formal theory of
long-term sociocultural evolution.

Jane Schneider is Professor of Anthropology at
the City University of New York's Graduate
Center.  She has conducted anthropological
field research in Sicily and is the co-author,
with Peter Schneider, of a 1976 book, Culture
and Political Economy in Western Sicily.  A
second book, covering the demographic
transition in Sicily, is in progress. Other
publications relate to a secondary interest --
the comparative history of cloth, clothing,
and textile manufacture. An artical on the
"Anthropology of Cloth" for the 1987 Annual
Review of Anthropology is one example.   

David Wilkinson is Professor of Political
Science at the University of California-Los
Angeles. He lives in the semiperiphery of Los
Angeles but commutes frequently to the core,
where he works in the semiperiphery of a
discipline whose core (he thinks) is very
slowly moving his way.