Saskia Sassen

Name：Saskia Sassen

Office Address：

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology

Columbia University

Sociology Committee on Global Thought

Current Position:

Professor of Sociology Columbia University

Professional Experience:

Research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions.

Written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, the Financial Times

Fellowships:

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations

A member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities

Prizes：

A Doctor honor is cause from Delft University (Netherlands)

The first Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award of the University of Notre Dame,

One of the four winners of the first University of Chicago Future Mentor Award covering all doctoral programs

A Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics

Publications and Papers:

The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press 1988)

The Global City (Princeton University Press 1991; 2nd ed 2002)

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2006)

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006)

A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007)

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers)

Books-Edited:

Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales, and Subjects (Rutledge 2006)

Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005), Cities in a World Economy (3rd.ed. Sage/Pine Forge 2006),