Global and Transnational Sociology is one of the great strengths of Brown's sociology department.  It is also a section of the American Sociological Association, and two of our faculty have been its chair -- Nitsan Chorev in 2015-16, and in this academic year Michael D. Kennedy. And this year, Ricarda Hammer, one of the department's graduate students, is the student representative on the section's council. 

This section is distinguished by its commitment to engaging global flows and processes and their consequent implications for policies, practices and scholarly knowledge, sometimes within globalization's framework, and sometimes with articulations of empire in mind. 

In the section's latest newsletter, Kennedy's message from the chair reflects on the variety of conceptions organizing this kind of scholarship as well as anticipate the sessions this section organizes for the August 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.