Immanuel Ness

About Immanuel Ness

Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Senior Research Associate, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg. He is author of Southern Insurgency (Pluto, 2015), Co-Editor, with Jake Alimahomd-Wilson, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disrupting the Global Supply Chain (Pluto 2018), and, with Cecilia Menjivar and Marie Ruiz, Co-Editor, Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019). He is author of Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2011), and other works on migration, labor movements and political organizations, social change, and imperialism. He is co-editor, with Zak Cope, of the quarterly periodical, Journal of Labor and Society. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/24••••07

Experience

1. Faculty

   Brooklyn College

   Jan 1997 — Present

   Faculty, Department of Political Science, Specialization in labor and global political economy, employment and flexibilization of labor, labor migration, labor unions, logistics, socialist political organizations, workers\' movements, Marxism, Leninism, geo-politics, regional studies, especially Global South.

Education

• Columbia University

  Master’s Degree, Comparative Politics

  1981 — 1986

• New York University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Politics and History

  1978 — 1981

• City University of New York Graduate Center

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science and Government

  1991 — 1995