Education: B.A. Columbia University, 1951; M.A.,
1954; Ph.D., 1959; Dr. h.c., Univ.
Paris-Denis Diderot, 1976
Academic Posts: Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
Binghamton University (SUNY), 1976-
Director, Fernand Braudel Center for the
Study of Economies, Historical
Systems, and Civilizations, 1976-
Directeur d'�tudes associ�, Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(Paris), various years
Professor of Sociology, McGill
University, 1971-76
Department of Sociology, Columbia
University, 1958-71
Visiting Professor at Alicante, British
Columbia, Chinese Univ. Hong Kong,
Dar-es-Salaam, Illinois,
Montpellier, Montreal, Napoli,
Ottawa, Texas
Professional Activities: President, International Sociological
Association, 1994-1998
Chair, Gulbenkian Commission on the
Restructuring of the Social
Sciences, 1993-1995
Member, Advisory Committee on
International Programs, Social Science
Research Council and American Council of
Learned Societies, 1984-87
Member, World Association for
International Relations, 1983-
Member, Sociological Research
Association, 1980-
Member, Board of Directors, Social
Science Research Council, 1979-85
Member, American Council of Learned
Societies and U.S.S.R. Academy of
Sciences Commission on the
Humanities and Social Sciences,
1979-1991
(co-chair, Subcommission on World
Labor and Social Change)
Member, Executive Council, International
African Institute, 1978-84
Alternate Member, Council, International
Sociological Association, 1978-86
Member, Council, Tocqueville Society,
1978-1982
Member, Program Committee, IXth Con
gress, International Sociological
Association, Uppsala, 1978
Co-chair, Association of Concerned
Africa Scholars, 1977-91
Member, Comitato Scientifico, Istituto
Int. di Storia Economica 'Francesco
Datini', Prato, 1977-
Member, Int. Comm. on the Social and
Economic History of Turkey (1071-
1920), 1977-
Member, Board of Governors, Institute of
American Studies (Paris), 1977-81
Member, Executive Council, American
Sociological Association, 1977-80
Member, Comit� de Direction, Groupe
Etat et Capitalisme � l'Epoque
Moderne, Maison des Sciences de
l'Homme, 1976-
Vice President, Research Commission,
National Movements and Imperialism,
International Sociological
Association, 1974-90
President, Research Commission, Centre
Qu�b�cois des Relations
Internationales, 1974-75
President, African Studies Association,
1972-73
Honors, Fellowships and Lectureships:
Gulbenkian Professor of Science and
Technology, 1994
Medal of the University, Univ. of
Helsinki, 1992
Distinguished Lecturer in Historical
Geography of Social Change, Assn.
of American Geographers, 1992
University Award for Excellence in
Scholarship, Binghamton University,
1991
Wei Lun Visiting Professor, Chinese
Univ. of Hong Kong, 1991
George A. Miller Visiting Professor,
University of Illinois-Urbana, 1989
Tripartite Lecturer, Royal Geographical
Society, Geographical Association,
Institute of British Geographers,
London, 1988
Distinguished Speaker, Center for
Advanced Study in International
Development, Michigan State Univ., 1987
Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,
France, 1984
Marshall Woods Lecturer, Brown
University, 1977, 1984
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting
Professor, University of British
Columbia, 1977
Distinguished Speaker, International
Society for the Comparative Study
of Civilizations, 1977
Sorokin Prize (for Distinguished
Scholarship), American Sociological
Association, 1975
Sorokin Lecturer, University of
Saskatchewan, 1975
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, Stanford,
1970-71
Ford Fellow in Economics, Political
Science and Sociology, 1970-71
Rosenfield Lecturer, Grinnell College,
1968
Foreign Area Fellowship, Africa, 1955-57
Phi Beta Kappa, 1951
Editorial Board: Editor, Review, 1977-
Editor, Studies in Political Economy of
the World-System (Greenwood;
formerly Sage), 78-
Co-editor, Studies in Modern Capitalism
(Cambridge Univ. Press), 1979-
CEMOTI, 1993-
African Journal of Political Economy,
1986-
Political Geography 1982-
SUNY Press Editorial Board, 1977-80
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1974-78
West African Journal of Sociology,
1974-
Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative
Politics, 1973-77
Africa Today, 1968-
African Studies Bulletin, 1965-69
