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Dale Tomich

Professor of Sociology and History
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Latin American and the Caribbean, world-systems, political economy, social movements

Also see: http://sociology.binghamton.edu/people/faculty/tomich.htm

Office: LN 2410  
Phone: (607) 777-2628 E-mail: dtomich@binghamton.edu


Recent or current undergraduate courses:

  • The Atlantic and the World Economy: Africa and the Americas (with Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch)
  • Introduction to the Modern World-System

Significant Publications

Books:

  • The Second Slavery: Global Process and Local Histories in the Remaking the American Plantation Periphery, 1815-1888 (in progress).
  • Ambiguities of Modernity: Science, Space, and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Cuba (in progress).
  • Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).

Selected Articles:

  • "Slavery in Martinique in the French Caribbean," in Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic World, Verene A. Shepherd and Hilary McD. Beckles, eds. (Princeton: Markus Wiener, 2000).
  • "The French Caribbean" with Carolyn Fick in Encyclopedia of Slavery, Seymour Drescher and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).
  • "Spaces of Slavery: Times of Freedom: Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, XVII, 1 (1997), 67-80.
  • "World of Capital, Worlds of Labor: Reworking Class in Global Perspective." in Reworking Class: Cultures and Institutions of Economic Stratification and Agency , John R. Hall, ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), 287-311.
  • "The Black Diaspora," The History Workshop Journal, 42 (Autumn, 1996), 330-335. Reprinted in Afro-Ásia (Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais da Universidade Federal da Bahia) 17 (1996), 252-259.
  • "Contested Terrains: Houses, Provision Grounds, and the Reconstitution of Labor in Post-Emancipation Martinique," in Mary Turner, ed., From Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 241-257.
  • "Visions of Liberty: Martinique in 1848," Proceedings of the Nineteenth Meetinging of the French Colonial Historical Society, Providence Rhode Island, May, 1993 (Cleveland: French Colonial Historical Society, 1994), 164-172.
  • "Small Islands & Huge Comparisons: Caribbean Plantations, Historical Unevenness, & Capitalist Modernity," Social Science History, 18:3 (Fall 1994), 339-358.

Awards/Distinctions

  • Distinguished Scholarship Award, Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological Association for Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy, 1830-1848, (The Johns Hopkins University Press), 1991
  • Fulbright-Hays Lectureship (Brazil), 1982-83
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1981-82
  • Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Grant for International
    Research, 1981-82
  • SUNY Research Foundation Award, 1979
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1977