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SASKIA SASSEN

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Saskia Sassen’s research and writing focuses on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new

Photo: Asiya Khaki 2008

Selected Books:

Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2nd ed. 2008)
Deciphering the Global: Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects (Routledge, 2007)
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm [with Robert Lantham] (Princeton University Press, 2005)
Cities in a World Economy (Pine Forge Press, 3rd ed. 2003)
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton University Press, 2nd ed. 2001)
The Mobility of Labor and Capital (Cambridge University Press, 1988)

Selected Recent Articles:

networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. In her research she has focused on the unexpected and the counterintuitive as a way to cut through established “truths.

In addition to her appointments at Columbia University and the London School of Economics, Saskia Sassen serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities. She has received a variety of awards and prizes, most recently, a Doctor honoris causa from Delft University (Netherlands), the first Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus Award of the University of Notre Dame, and was one of the four winners of the first University of Chicago Future Mentor Award covering all doctoral programs. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, and the Financial Times, among others.