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Richard P. Appelbaum (born June 6,1942) is an American sociologist. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and former MacArthur Foundation Chair in Global and International Studies and Sociology at the University of California,Santa Barbara, [1] and currently a professor at Fielding Graduate University. [1] [2]
Appelbaum was born on June 6,1942,in Rochester,New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia University, [3] M.P.A. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,and PhD from the University of Chicago. [1] His scholarship has focused on the globalization of business,and the sociology of work and labor. His most recent research has focused on innovation policy in China and the global supply-chain network. [4] [5] [6]
Appelbaum held visiting professorships at the University of Manchester and the University of Hong Kong. [1] He is the research group leader of the Center for Nanotechnology in Society. [7]
He was the founding editor of the sociological journal Competition &Change and co-author of the textbook Introduction to Sociology, now in its 11th edition. [8]
He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. [9]
Columbia University,also known as Columbia,and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York,is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan,Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is one of nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence,and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is ranked among the most prestigious universities in the world.
The University of California,Santa Barbara is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara,California. It is part of the University of California 10-university system. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers' college,UCSB joined the University of California system in 1944 and is the third-oldest undergraduate campus in the system,after UC Berkeley and UCLA. In 2021,the university enrolled 23,196 undergraduate and 2,983 graduate students.
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