Health Vice President
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Curriculum Vitae
NITSAN CHOREV
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Brown University
Maxcy Hall, Box 1916
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-***-****
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Education
Ph.D. New York University, Sociology. 2003.
M.A. New York University, Sociology. 2000.
Tel Aviv University, Law. 1995. Magna cum laude
LL.B.
Tel Aviv University, Economics. 1995. Magna cum laude
B.A.
Professional appointments
2012 2013 Co-director of the Graduate Program in Development, Watson
Institute for International Affairs
2011-Present Associate Professor of Sociology, Brown University
2006 2011 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown University
2008 2009 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2005 2006 Fellow, International Institute, University of California-Los
Angeles
2003 2005 Assistant professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary
Publications: books
The World Health Organization Between North and South. Ithaca: Cornell University
2012
Press.
Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization. Ithaca: Cornell
2007
University Press.
Winner of the ASA Section on Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) book
award
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Reviewed in: American Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Sociology, Governance,
Economic History Services (EH.NET), Journal of Economic History
Publications: refereed journal articles
Forthcoming Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual
Property Protection of AIDS Drugs. American Sociological Review.
Restructuring Neoliberalism at the World Health Organization. Review of
Forthcoming
International Political Economy.
Forthcoming A New Health Order as Part the New Social Order : The Strategic Response of
International Organizations to Their Member States. Political Power and Society
Theory.
2010 Fixing Globalization Institutionally: U.S. Domestic Politics of International
Trade. International Sociology 25(1): 54-74.
2009 Power and Rules in Global Governance Institutions: A Comparison of the IMF
and the WTO. Theory and Society 38: 459-484. (With Sarah Babb, first author)
2009 The Judicial Transformation of the State: The Case of U.S. Trade Policy, 1974-
2004. Law & Policy 31(1): 31-68.
2007 A Fluid Divide: Domestic and International Factors in U.S. Trade Policy
Formation. Review of International Political Economy 14(4): 653-689
2005 The Institutional Project of Neo-Liberal Globalism: The Case of the WTO.
Theory and Society 34(3): 317-355.
2005 Making and Remaking State Institutional Arrangements: The Case of U.S. Trade
Policy in the 1970s. Journal of Historical Sociology 18(1-2): 3-36.
Publications: chapters in books
On the Origins of Neoliberalism: Political Shifts and Analytical Challenges. In The
2009
Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective, edited by J. Craig Jenkins
and Kevin Leicht. Springer Publishers.
International Trade Policy Under George W. Bush. In Assessing the George W. Bush
2009
Presidency: A Tale of Two Terms?, edited by Andrew Wroe and Jon Herbert. Edinburgh
University Press.
2006 Political and Institutional Maneuvers in International Trade Negotiations: The United
States and the Doha Development Round. In Strategic Arena Switching in International
Trade Negotiations, edited by Wolfgang Blaas and Joachim Becker. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Publications: book reviews
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2010 The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France,
Germany, and the United States. By Monica Prasad. American Journal of Sociology.
States Still Matter, About Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to
2008
Global Assemblages. European Journal of Sociology 48(3): 481-84.
2008 Sophie Meunier, Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial
Negotiations. Review of International Organizations 3(1): 95-98.
Review of Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade by Ann M. Kimball.
2008
Canadian Journal of Sociology 513-15.
Work in progress
Converting Contested Knowledge into Objective Facts: The Attempt to Regulate the Marketing of
Infant Formula, Pharmaceuticals and Tobacco [co-authored with Tatiana Andia Rey]
Regimes of Justification: Exceptionalism in the use of TRIPS and GATS [co-authored with
Alexandra Kowalski]
Who Governs the Global: The State of States at the International Arena
Other publications
Encyclopedia entry protectionism. In The Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George
Ritzer.
Invited lectures
2012
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University. Workshop: The Culture of International
Organizations. April 2012.
Department of Sociology, College of William and Mary. Restructuring Neoliberalism at the World
Health Organization. March 2012.
Institute for Global and International Studies, George Washington University. The World Health
Organization between North and South. February 2012.
2011
On Colonialism and Postcolonial Development by Jim Mahoney. Author Meets Critics. Social
Science History Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. November 2011.
Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Restructuring Neoliberalism at the World Health Organization. October 2011.
Department of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Neutralizing
Neoliberalism: The World Health Organization between North and South. March 2011.
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Commentator and discussant. Meeting of Successful Societies Program. The Canadian Institute
For Advanced Research. Toronto, Canada. January 2011.
2010
Workshop. Co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Institute for Public
Knowledge at NYU. Global Health: Critical Reflections from the Social Sciences. June 2010.
Contentious Politics Seminar, City University of New York, Graduate Center. Health for Some:
The World Health Organization between North and South. May 2010.
Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley. Health for Some: The World Health
Organization between North and South. March 2010.
2009
Health of Nations Reading Group, Center for European Studies, Harvard University. Gates
Governs the Global? The Structural Transformation of International Health Institutions.
November 2009.
International Labor / International Law Seminar, Harvard University. What Price for Anti-AIDS
Drugs? Rethinking International Diffusion. October 2009.
Department of Sociology, Brown University. Gates Governs the Global? The Structural
Transformation of International Health Institutions. October 2009.
Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut. Gates Governs the Global? The Structural
Transformation of International Health Institutions. October 2009.
Department of Sociology, Boston University. Gates Governs the Global? The Structural
Transformation of International Health Institutions. September 2009.
Invited panel. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. A Short
Dur e: World System Analysis in View of Geopolitical and Economic Transformations in the Last
35 Years. August 2009.
Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI). Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University. Eradicating Smallpox, Managing AIDS: On the Global Governance of
Health. June 2009.
Institute for Global and International Studies, George Washington University. What Price for
Anti-AIDS Drugs? Rethinking International Diffusion. January 2009.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Eradicating Smallpox, Managing AIDS: On
the Global Governance of Health. January 2009.
2008
Department of Sociology, University of Arizona. What Price for Anti-AIDS Drugs? Rethinking
International Diffusion December 2008.
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Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University. International Trade, Domestic Struggles, and
the Changing Nature of the U.S. State. April 2008.
2007
An inaugural alumni lecture. Department of Sociology, New York University. Remaking U.S.
Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization. May 2007.
Department of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles. Remaking U.S. Trade Policy:
From Protectionism to Globalization. February 2007.
Papers presented in conferences
2011
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. June 2011. Madrid, Spain. A New
International Order in Health : The Strategic Response of International Organizations to External
Pressures.
2010
Social Science History Association. November 2010. Chicago, IL. Negotiating Neoliberalism: The
World Health Organization between North and South.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2010. Atlanta, GA. Neutralizing
Neoliberalism: The World Health Organization between North and South.
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting. June 2010. Philadelphia,
PA. Neutralizing Neoliberalism: The World Health Organization between North and South.
International Studies Association. February 2010. New Orleans, IL. Gates Governs the Global:
The Structural Transformation of International Organizations
2009
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2009. San Francisco, CA. What Price
for Anti-AIDS Drugs? Rethinking International Diffusion.
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting. June 2009. Paris, France.
Gates Governs the Global: The Structural Transformation of International Organizations
2008
The International Political Economy Society. November 2008. Philadelphia, PA. What Price for
Anti-AIDS Drugs? Rethinking International Diffusion.
Wits-Brown-APHRC-Colorado Population Colloquium, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
South Africa. July 2008. What Price for Anti-AIDS Drugs? Rethinking International Diffusion.
International Studies Association Annual Meeting. March 2008. San Francisco, CA. Fixing
Globalization Institutionally: U.S. Domestic Politics of International Trade.
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2007
Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. November 2007. Chicago, IL. The End of
Protectionism: U.S. Trade Liberalization and the Politics of Institutions, 1934-2004.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. July 2007. Berlin, Germany. The Judicial
Transformation of the State: The Case of U.S. Trade Policy, 1974-2004.
2006
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2006. Montreal, Canada. Organizing
Globalization: The IMF and the GATT/WTO in Historical Perspective, with Sarah Babb.
2005
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2005. Philadelphia, PA. A Fluid Divide:
Domestic and International Considerations in U.S. Trade Policy Formation,
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting. July 2005. Budapest,
Hungary. A Fluid Divide: Domestic and International Considerations in U.S. Trade Policy
Formation.
2004
The British International Studies Association Annual Meeting. December 2004. Warwick, UK. The
institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: the case of the WTO.
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2004. San Francisco, CA. Making and
Remaking State Institutional Arrangements: The Case of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1970s.
Global Studies Association Annual Meeting. May 2004. Boston, MA. Institutionalizing global neo-
liberalism: The structural transformation of the WTO and its inherent contradictions.
2003
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. August 2003. Atlanta, GA. The State,
International Organizations, and US power: The Case of the World Trade Organization.
Society for the Advancement of Social-Economics Annual Meeting. June 2003. Aix-en-Provence,
France. The State, International Organizations, and US power: The Case of the World Trade
Organization.
Academic Honors and Fellowships
2009 Winner of the ASA Section Political Economy of the World-System Book Award
2008-2009 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Fellow
2005-2006 UCLA International Institute, Global Fellow
2002-2003 New York University, Dean s Dissertation Fellowship
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1996-2002 New York University, Full Tuition Scholarship
Research grants
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research
Award. 2012 ($15,000)
Brown University, Office of International Affairs, 2011. With Dan Smith ($10,000)
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departmental Research Funds. 2011.
($1,800)
Brown University, Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance. 2011. ($8,000)
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departmental Research Funds. 2010.
($1,500)
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departmental Research Funds. 2008.
($1,500)
Globalization and Inequality Initiate, Watson Institute, Principal Investigators: Gianpaolo Baiocchi,
Keith Brown, Nitsan Chorev, Patrick Heller, Simone Pulver, Richard Snyder. 2007-2009 ($50,000)
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research
Award. 2007 ($15,000)
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departmental Research Funds. 2007
($2,000)
Brown University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departmental Research Funds. 2006
($2,000)
Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Grant. 2001.
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. 2001
Service: Brown University
Department of Sociology
Member, Undergraduate Student Committee, Sociology Department, 2011-Present
Liaison with the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Sociology Department, 2010-2011
Library Representative, 2010-2011
Member, Exam Committees (5): Theory, Political Economy of Development, Comparative-
Historical Sociology, Globalization, and Political Sociology
Member, Graduate Student Committee, Sociology Department, 2006 2009
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University
Committee Member, The Brown Instructional Technology (BIT) Grants Program, 2011-12
Co-organizer, Colloquium on Comparative Research (CCR) at the Watson Institute, 2011-2012
(with Melani Cammett)
Co-organizer, Colloquium on Comparative Research (CCR) at the Watson Institute, 2009-2010,
2010-2011 (with Pauline Loung)
Member, Editorial Collective, Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID), Watson
Institute, 2006 present
Member, Selection Committee, Brown International Scholars Program (BISP), 2009
Co-organizer, Colloquium on Comparative Research (CCR) at the Watson Institute, 2007-2008
(with Richard Snyder)
Member, Designated Suppliers Program (DSP) Working Group (a committee chaired by Vice
President Walter Hunger to study and develop recommendations regarding the DSP), 2007-2008
Member, Global Health Working Group (a sub-committee of the Internationalization Committee),
2006-2007
Service: to the profession
Editorial Board member, Politics and Society, 2011-Present
Editorial Board member, Political Power and Social Theory, 2010-Present
Council Member, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological
Association, 2011-2013
Council Member, Political Economy of the World System Section of the American Sociological
Association, 2010-2012
Senior Member, Program Committee, Global and Transnational Sociology Section, American
Sociological Association, 2011-2012.
Chair, Best Article Committee, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American
Sociological Association, 2011.
Member, Book Prize Committee, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American
Sociological Association, 2010.
Co-organizer (with Lawrence E. Raffalovich), Panels on Economic Sociology Section on
Inequality, Economic Growth and Development. American Sociological Association, 2009.
Co-editor, ASA Comparative Historical Sociology Section newsletter (with Greta Krippner), 2007-
2009
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Organizer, American Sociological Association, Panels on Globalization. American Sociological
Association, 2006.
Network organizer, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), 2006-2008
Member of the Annual Meeting Local Committee of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-
Economics (SASE), Budapest, Hungary, 2005
Co-organizer of conference, Re-envisioning Society: The State of the Nation and the Social
Imagination, Budapest, Hungary, June 4-6, 2004
Assistant Editor, Sociological Theory, 1997-1999
Occasional reviewer of grant proposals to the National Science Foundation, Social Science and
Humanities Research Council of Canada
Occasional reviewer of book manuscripts for: Cornell University Press, Harvard University Press,
Polity, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press
Occasional reviewer of article submissions to: American Journal of Sociology, American
Sociological Review, Review of International Political Economy, International organization, Global
Governance, Theory and Society, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, International
Studies Quarterly, Journal of Policy History, Law & Social Inquiry, Sociological Theory, Political
Power and Social Theory, Journal of Development Studies
Teaching and advising
2011-2012
SOC1010 Classical Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
SOC2040 Classical Sociological Theory (graduate)
SOC2960F Global Political Economy (graduate)
0300E Freshman Seminar on HIV/AIDS: Politics, Culture and Society (undergraduate)
2010-2011
FALL TERM ON JUNIOR SABBATICAL
SOC1010 Classical Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
SOC2050 Contemporary Social Theory (graduate)
2009-2010
SOC1010 Classical Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
0300E Freshman Seminar on HIV/AIDS: Politics, Culture and Society (undergraduate)
SOC2960F Global Political Economy (graduate)
SOC2600 Comparative Historical Sociology (graduate)
2008-2009
ON LEAVE
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2007-2008
SOC1010 Classical Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
SOC2050 Contemporary Social Theory (graduate)
SOC2960F Global Political Economy (graduate)
2006-2007
SOC1010 Classical Sociological Theory (undergraduate)
SOC2050 Contemporary Social Theory (graduate)
SOC297-07 Global Political Economy of Diseases (graduate)
Graduate Research Instruction and Examination
Dissertation Committee (graduated): Shruti Majumdar (2012), Amy Kracker (2012), Moshi Optat
Herman (2012), Christopher Gibson (2012)
Dissertation Committee (current): Dikshya Thapa, Mercedes Lyson, Alissa Cordner, David Ciplet,
Sukriti Issar
Preliminary Exams and/or Paper: Myung-Ji Yang, Ana-Margarita Esteves, Daniela Villacr s, Sukriti
Issar, Christopher Gibson, Lisbeth Trille, Dikshya Thapa, Amy Cracker, Sinem Adar, Shruti
Majumdar, Jennifer Darrah, Tom Bridges, Tania Jenkins
MA Thesis Committee: B. Demuth, Jennifer Costanza, Shruti Majumdar, Naomi Hellman, M.
Silverman, Irene Pang
Dissertation Reader (6)
Undergraduate Research Instruction and Examination
Honors thesis: Nick Renzler, R. Giridharadas, S. Khan, A. Schrobenhauser-Clonan, L. Levitz, I.
Nelson-Greenberg, Anthony Urena, Sam Karshenboym, Alina Kung
Research Assistantships (4)
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