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Prof. Dr. Saskia Sassen (UK/US)
Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
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Sassen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. She holds a doctorate in Sociology and Economics from Notre Dame University, Indiana. From 1974 to 1975 she was post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University and for one year each studied philosophy at the Université de Poitiers, political science at the Universita degli Studi di Roma, and philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires.
Dutch by origin, Sassen is an expert on political economics and primarily studies the social and political consequences of globalization. Questions of national sovereignty, the transformation of cities and existing power structures resulting from the influence of information technologies are central to her publications and research. She has become internationally known with her theses on the new role of centralization and global cities in the context of a world economy.
Sassen has been a member of several research groups, among them the Japan based project on Economic Restructuring in the U.S. and Japan, sponsored by the United Nations Centre on Regional Development and MIT (1988-1990); the Social Science Research Council Working Group on New York City, sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation (1985-1990); the Social Science Research Council Committee on Hispanic Public Policy, sponsored by the Ford Foundation (1987-1991); the New York-London Comparative Study sponsored by the Economic Social Research Council of the United Kingdom.
She also was a member of the Ford Foundation Task Force for Research on Hispanics; the Research Working Group on the Informal Sector, supported by the Ford, Tinker, and Rockefeller Foundations; the Stanford University Project on Mexico-U.S. Relations; and the Immigration and Economic Sociology Project sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation (1992-1995); the Comparative Urban Studies project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC (start in 1992); and the Group of Lisbon sponsored by the Science Program of the European Union and the Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal) (start in 1993). Sassen has furthermore served on various advisory panels, including Queens Borough President Claire Shulman's Blue Ribbon Panel on Government, and the New York State Industrial Corporation Council.
She has also served on several scientific juries, most recently for the French Government's Ministry of Urban Affairs and the Belgian Government's Agency on Science and Technology in the Office of the Prime Minister. Moreover Sassen serves on several editorial boards and is co-director of the Economy Section of the Global Chicago Project and is the Chair of the newly formed Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security Committee of the SSRC.
Most recently she was a Fellow at the Wissenshaftszentrum Berlin, Germany; Distinguished Lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria; Henry Luce Lecturer at Clark University. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She has been made a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Publications
The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton University Press, 1991)
Cities in a World Economy (Thousand Oaks, 1994)
Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization (Columbia University Press, 1996)
Globalization and its Discontents (New Press, 1998)
Guests and Aliens (New Press, 1999)
Global Networks/Linked Cities (Routledge 2001)
Awards
Ford Foundation (1972-1973)
Tinker Foundation (1980-1981)
Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism (1988-1989)
Twentieth Century Fund (1995-1996)
Online
 http://social-sciences.uchicago.edu/sociology/sassen.html
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