Box 1916

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Telephone: (401) 863-2367

Sociology@brown.edu

 

408 Maxcy Hall
401-863-1906 phone
401-863-3213 fax
Nitsan_Chorev@brown.edu

Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Thursday, 4:00-6:00pm

Ph.D., New York University, 2003

Brown University Research Profile Page

Areas of Interest:
International Political Economy (Trade, Health), Globalization, Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Social Theory

Nitsan Chorev is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brown University. She was previously a Global Fellow at the UCLA International Institute and an Assistant Professor at Central European University. She specializes in the politics of globalization, and teaches global political economy, classical social theory, and contemporary social theory. Her book, Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007), offers a historical analysis of globalization as a political project, and investigates what political conditions made globalization possible. In particular, the book offers a political history of global trade liberalization by tracing the political struggles and institutional transformations that led to the shift, in the United States, from the protectionism of the early 20th century to current free-trade policies.

Her current book project looks at the transformation of international health policies from the 1940s to the present. The book will map the trajectory of international health by analyzing a number of case studies—from malaria and smallpox, Primary Health Care and Essential Drug programs, the successful regulation of the infant food industry and the failed regulation of the pharmaceutical industry, to the more contemporary fights against smoking and HIV/AIDS.