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Jackie Smith
Department of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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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 2011Professor 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-4-2Smith.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):621652.
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 KutzFlamenbaum, 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 20 th to 21st Century” pp. 395421 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.
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.
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.
"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).
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)
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.
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/jackiesmith/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.
Jackie Smith, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum, Christopher Hausmann. “New Politics
Emerging at the United States Social Forum.” In Societies Without Borders.
“Perspectives: Do Social Movements Offer Viable Alternatives?” in Kasarinlan:
Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 21(2):152-157.
“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.
“Response to Wallerstein: The Struggle for Global Society in a World System” Public
Sociologies Essay, Social Forces 83 (3):1279-1285.
“The World Social Forum and the Challenges of Global Democracy” Global Networks
4(3) October. www.Blackwell-Synergy.com/links/toc/glob
“Anti-war Movement Must Democratize Foreign Policy Process” in Syracuse Peace
Action News.
“Made in (Corporate) America: Looking Behind the Anti-Globalization Label.” In
Dissent (Fall) pp. 57-59.
“Cyber-Subversion in the Information Economy” in Dissent (Spring) Pp. 48-52.
Reprinted in: Lettera Internazionale.
“Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements,”
Working Paper No. 14, Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.
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.
“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.
“Transnational Associations” In Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. San
Diego: Academic Press.
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.
“Organizing Global Action.” Peace Review 6:419-425.
“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):555556.
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 WorldSystem: 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 WorldSystem: 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 WorldSystem 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 2122.
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
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Global Studies Association (Board Member)
International Network of Scholar Activists
Sociologists Without Borders
International Studies Association
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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
2014Member (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