John G. Dale

Associate Professor

sociology of human rights; political sociology; social movements; corporate accountability; (de-)democratization; global and transnational sociology; science, knowledge, and technology; law and society; area specialist in Burma/Myanmar.

John G. Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He directs Movement Engaged, the social movement research hub of the Center for Social Science Research. He co-directs the Next Systems Fellows Program, housed in the FUSE building on the Mason Square Campus in Arlington. He has supervised and served on numerous PhD dissertation committees in sociology, conflict analysis & resolution, political science, cultural studies, computational social science, and education.

His research explores the political, digital and ecological transformation of globalization and its impact on society, with a particular focus on social movements, corporate accountability, the production of knowledge, and the institutionalization of democracy and human rights. His work draws substantially from relational perspectives in political and economic sociology; the sociology of human rights; political and legal anthropology; science, knowledge, and technology studies; as well as from methodological approaches to transnationalism deriving from critical and institutional ethnography, and comparative and historical sociology.

He is author of Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), co-author (with Anthony Orum) of Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2009; translated in Turkish in 2016, and Chinese in 2017), and co-editor (with Raluca Grosesçu) of Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Action across the World, (Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights Series, vol. 16, Springer Nature, 2025). He is currently completing a book manuscript, Hacking Humanity: The Digital Transformation of Humans and Nonhumans, Their Relations, and Rights, which explores how big data and digital technologies reshape the practices and politics of human and nonhuman rights, and understandings of humans and their relations to nonhumans (such as ecosystems, AI, and corporations).

Dale has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation and Corporation for National Community Service, and residential fellowships from Japan Society for Promotion of Science (2021-2022), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he was affiliated with their Science, Technology, and Innovation Program (2019-2020). He presently serves as the Scientific Advisor of the European Research Council (ERC) - Consolidator Project on Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes (principal investigator: Raluca Grosesçu, University of Bucharest, Romania). This project has received 6 years (2021-2027) of funding from the ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

Dale is also an internationally recognized expert on the pro-democracy movement and politics of development and human rights in Myanmar (Burma), and the Open Society Foundation selected him to serve as International Liaison of Sociology to the University of Yangon. He has been conducting fieldwork, research, and writing about conflict, civil society, and development there since 1997.

Dale recently served on the Steering Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science & Human Rights Coalition (2018-2024), and as a Council Member of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Human Rights (2019-2022). He is an Editorial Board Member of the Sociology of Human Rights and Development Series at Anthem Press, and has served (2022-2024) as Topic Editor for the Sociological Theory and Sociology of Law Sections of Frontiers in Sociology. He is currently serving a three-year term on Mason's Faculty Senate (2023-2026). He co-chairs the University's Research Advisory Committee (2023-2026), and serves as Faculty Senate Representative to the University's Technology Policy Committee (2025-2026), and Athletic Council (2024-2026).

Selected Publications

Books

Dale, John G. Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability, (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

Dale, John G. Political Sociology: Power and Participation in the Modern World. 5th Edition. Co-author with Anthony M. Orum, (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2009; Turkish translation in 2016, and Chinese Translation in 2017).

Co-edited Books

Dale, John G. Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Action across the World. Co-editor with Raluca Grosesçu. Series on Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights, vol. 16, (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2025). doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05569-9.

Dale, John G. Just Economics: Can Corporate Accountability Democratize Business? Co-editor with Raluca Grosesçu and Henry P. Rammelt. (Under review for contract with Routledge, Human Rights Series).

Book Chapters and Refereed Articles

Dale, John G. 2025. "Corporate Accountability and the Ecological Turn: Mining Lessons from the Rights of Nature Movement," in Raluca Grosesçu and John G. Dale, eds., Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Action across the World, Series on Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights, vol. 16, (Cham, Switzerland: Springer). doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05569-9_4

Carter, S.O., Dale, J.G. 2025. "Social Bias in AI: Re-coding Innovation through Algorithmic Political Capitalism." AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02540-2.

Dale, J.G. and Aizawa, N. 2024. “’Data Free Flow with Trust’: Japan’s Struggle to Integrate Democracy and Human Rights into Digital Trade Policy.” Frontiers in Sociology 9.1397528. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1397528.

Dale, John. 2024. "Myanmar, Pro-Democracy Movement, Collective Violence, 1998," Pp. 71-84 in Denielle A. Elliot and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, eds., Naked Fieldnotes: A Compendium of Raw and Unedited Ethnographic Research (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2024).

Kyle, David and Dale, John. 2023 [2001]. “Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered,” Pp. 37-64 in Luigi Achilli and David Kyle, eds. Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World (Johns Hopkins University Press). Completely revised and updated third edition.

Dale, John G. and Kislenko, Ivan. 2022. “Invitation to Transnational Sociology.” Pp. 109-119 in Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Heather Dillaway, David C. Lane, Manjusha Nair, and Jason A. Smith, eds., Global Agenda for Social Justice 2. (Policy Press / Bristol University Press).

Dale, John and Kyle, David. 2017. “The Risky Business of Transformation: Social Enterprise in Myanmar’s Emerging Democracy.” Pp. 81-121 in Melissa Crouch, ed., The Business of Transition: Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press).

Dale, John and Kyle, David. 2016. "Smart Humanitarianism: Re-imagining Human Rights in the Age of Enterprise.” Critical Sociology 42: 6: 1-15.

Dale, John and Kyle, David. 2015. “Smart Transitions? Foreign Investment, Disruptive Technology, and Democratic Reform in Myanmar.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, “Special Issue: From Burma to Myanmar: Critical Transitions” 82: 2 (Summer): 291-326.

Expanded Publication List

Publications

Book Chapters

2025	Dale, John G. "Corporate Accountability and the Ecological Turn: Mining Lessons from the Rights of Nature Movement," in Raluca Grosesçu and John G. Dale, eds., Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Violations: Civil Society and Transnational Action across the World, Co-editor with Raluca Grosesçu. (Springer, Series on Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Rights).
2024	Dale, John. "Myanmar, Pro-Democracy Movement, Collective Violence, 1998," in Denielle Elliot and Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, , eds., Naked Fieldnotes: A Compendium of Raw and Unedited Ethnographic Research (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press).
2023	Kyle, David and John Dale. “Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered,” in Luigi Achilli and David Kyle, eds. Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World, (Johns Hopkins University Press). Completely revised and updated third edition.
2022	Dale, John G. and Ivan Kislenko. “Invitation to Transnational Sociology,” in Glenn W. Muschert, Kristen M. Budd, Heather Dillaway, David C. Lane, Manjusha Nair, and Jason A. Smith, eds., Global Agenda for Social Justice 2. Policy Press / Bristol University Press. Pp. 109-119.
2017	Dale, John, and Samantha Samuel-Nakka. “International Non-Governmental Organisations and Advocacy,” in Adam Simpson, Nick Farrelly, and Ian Holliday, eds., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar. London: Routledge. Pp. 324-334.
2017	Dale, John and David Kyle. “The Risky Business of Transformation: Social Enterprise in Myanmar’s Emerging Democracy,” in Melissa Crouch, ed., The Business of Transition: Law Reform, Development and Economics in Myanmar. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 81-121.
2016	Dale, John. “Foreward.” In Nehginpao Kigpen, Myanmar: A Political History. Oxford University Press.
2007	Dale, John. “Transnational Conflict between Peasants and Corporations in Burma: Human Rights and Discursive Ambivalence under the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act,” in Mark Goodale and Sally Engle Merry, eds. The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law between the Global and the Local. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 285-319.
2001 Reprint: 2008 Revised: 2011	Kyle, David and John Dale. “Smuggling the State Back In: Agents of Human Smuggling Reconsidered.” In David J. Kyle and Rey Koslowski, eds., Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspective. (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Pp.29-57. Reprinted in Peggy Leavitt and Sanjeev Khagram, eds., The Transnational Studies Reader: Intersections and Innovations, (New York: Routledge, 2008). Revised and reprinted in David J. Kyle and Rey Koslowski, eds., Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives, Second Edition (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011). Pp. 33-59.
1994	Dale, John and Dorine Greshof. “The Residents of Tompkins Square Park.” In Janet L. Abu-Lughod, ed., From Urban Village to East Village: Neighborhood Change in New York's Lower East Side. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 267-284.

Refereed Research Articles

2025	Carter, S.O., Dale, J.G. "Social Bias in AI: Re-coding Innovation through Algorithmic Political Capitalism." AI & Society (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02540-2.
2024	Dale, John G. and Nobuhiro Aizawa. “’Data Free Flow with Trust’: Japan’s Struggle to Integrate Democracy and Human Rights into Digital Trade Policy.” Frontiers in Sociology. Sec. Sociology of Law, Vol. 9. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1397528.
2021	Best, Amy L. Katie Kerstetter, John Dale & Samantha Retrosi. “The Strength of Civic Ties: Connecting Civic Engagement and Professional Attainment among Educated Immigrants in the United States.” Community, Work & Family. DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2021.2008876
2016	Dale, John and Kyle, David. (2016) "Smart Humanitarianism: Re-imagining Human Rights in the Age of Enterprise.” Critical Sociology 42 (6): 1-15.
2015	Dale, John and David Kyle. “Smart Transitions? Foreign Investment, Disruptive Technology, and Democratic Reform in Myanmar.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, “Special Issue: From Burma to Myanmar: Critical Transitions” Volume 82, No. 2 (Summer): 291-326.
2010	Dale, John G. “Democratizing the Production of Human Rights in Burma.” Global Studies Review, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Fall).
2008	Dale, John G. “Burma’s Boomerang: Human Rights, Social Movements and Transnational Legal Mechanisms ‘from Below’.” International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 45: 1 (April), Special Issue on “The New World Order - Global Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century.” Pp. 151-184.
2008	Dale, John G. and Tony Roshan Samara. “Legal Pluralism within a Transnational Network of Governance: The Extraordinary Case of Rendition.” Law, Social Justice, and Global Development, Vol. 12, No.2 (Winter), Special Issue on “Legal Pluralism,” Available at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/elj/lgd/
1993	Dale, John (with photographs by Margaret Morton). “Anarcho-Graffiti in New York City´s Lower East Side.” In Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Quote Vernacular Unquote. New York: Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Book Reviews

2022	Dale, John G. Review of The Colonialism of Human Rights: Ongoing Hypocrisies of Western Liberalism by Colin Samson. Contemporary Sociology 51:5: 409-411.
2016	Dale, John G. “Overcoming Global Inequalities.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Vol. 45., No. 4 (July). Pp. 516-519.
2013	Dale, John G. “Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 119, No. 3 (November). Pp. 875-877.
2013	Dale, John G. “Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005.” Journal of World Systems Research, (Vol. 19, No. 1 (March). Pp. 171-174.
2010	Dale, John G. “Poverty & Power: The Problem of Structural Inequality.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 39 (January). Pp. 82-83.
2009	Dale, John G. “The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practice.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review of Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics Vol. 1, No. 4 (December, 2009). Pp. 517-518.
2007	Dale, John G. “Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review of Social Movements, Protest, and Contentious Politics, Vol.12, No. 1 (March,). Pp.106-107.

Review Essay

2005	Dale, John G. “In Dire Straits: Why Big Oil Needs Transnational Regulation.” [Review of John S. Burnett’s Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas.] Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, No. 1. Pp. 288-295.

Encyclopedia Articles

2011	Dale, John G. “Doe v. Unocal.” In Junius P. Rodriguez, ed. Slavery in the Modern World: A History of Political, Social, and Economic Oppression, (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, forthcoming, 2011).
2008	Dale, John G. “The Interwar Years.” In William A. Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences (Second Edition), (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA -Thomson Gale, 2008)
2007	Dale, John G. “Karl Polanyi.” In David S. Clark, ed. Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives. (Thousand Oaks, CA, London and New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2007), vol. 3, pp. 1120-1121.

Grants and Fellowships

National Science Foundation (NSF), Law and Social Science Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Co-Principal Investigator (and Dissertation Advisor) with Maria Valdovinos Olson (GMU, PhD Candidate) in October, 2022. The award funding is disbursed through Arizona State University.

Advisory Board Member of the European Research Council (ERC)- Consolidator Project Transnational Advocacy Networks and Corporate Accountability for Major International Crimes (principal investigator: Dr. Raluca Grosesçu, University of Bucharest). This project has received 5 years of funding from the ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 101002993 - CORPACCOUNT) and it is implemented by the National University of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest, (€4,000,000) 2021-2026.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitational Research Fellowship in Japan, October 2021-January 2022.

George Mason University Faculty Development Grant ($6,000) May, 2021.

George Mason University Faculty Study Leave Award, Fall Semester, 2021.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Residential Fellowship, and affiliation with Science, Technology, and Innovation Program, to research and work on book manuscript. September 2019- May 2020.

George Mason University Provost PhD Program Grant (with Nancy Hanrahan). Competitive university-wide grant for the Sociology PhD Program. ($475,000), 2018-2021.

George Mason University Provost PhD Program Grant. Competitive university-wide grant for the Sociology PhD Program. ($406,800), 2015-2018.

Corporation for National and Community Service. Co-principal Investigator (with Jim Witte, Amy Best, and Shannon Davis). Grant to study the impact of immigrant civic engagement on socio-economic mobility in seven cities across the United States. ($350,000), October, 2015; and renewed in June, 2017.

Society for the Study of Social Problems. Awarded funding from Board of Directors to organize and moderate a special panel session at the 2015 Annual Meeting that I proposed for convening international graduate student scholars from multiple continents of the global South (Myanmar, Honduras, Bolivia, and Egypt) conducting social research on transnational conflict. ($5000), 2014-2015.

George Mason University Faculty Study Leave Award, Fall Semester, 2014.

Society for the Study of Social Problems. Awarded funding to cover two conference rooms at the Westin Hotel at Times Square in New York and professional staff from SSSP, and raised (with David Kyle, UC Davis) additional $3,500 from University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute, University of California, Davis’ Office of University Outreach and International Programs and Department of Sociology George Mason University's Consortium on Global Problem Solving and Office of Global and International to organize a one-day international conference on “Re-Imagining Human Rights: The Challenge of Agency, Creativity, and Global Justice” (https://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/pageid/1635/). ($7,500), 2013.

George Mason University Provost PhD Program Grant (with Amy Best). Competitive university-wide grant for the Sociology PhD Program. ($405,500), 2012-2015.

Center for Global Studies. Faculty Research Grant for project titled, “Just Practicing? The Transnational Production of Human Rights in Burma.” ($2,500), 2010-2011.

George Mason University Provost. Awarded stipend to travel to Moscow to strengthen educational partnership and explore potential for a joint human rights certificate program between our Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the State University – Higher School of Economics’ Department of Public Policy and Department of Sociology in Moscow, Russian Federation. ($4,200), 2010.

Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme [International Federation of Human Rights], based in Paris, France. Grant for travel to Bangkok, Thailand to conduct interviews with the Burma Lawyer’s Council, 80 NGOs from the Global North and South, and Burmese and ethnic nationalist minority activist groups from Burma, and to conduct field research along the Thai-Burma border relating to emerging transnational campaigns for accountability on international crimes in Burma, including by a referral to International Criminal Court. ($5,000), 2009.

George Mason University Fenwick Fellowship (with Tony Samara). Funding, part-time research assistant, and library office space for research project: Transnational Justice and Legal Discourse in the Making of Extraordinary Rendition. ($5,000), 2007-2008.

George Mason University Faculty Study Leave Award, Fall Semester, 2007.

National Endowment for the Humanities. Visiting Scholarship Award at Columbia University. Grant to develop visiting scholar publication and participate in 8-week colloquium on “Human Rights in an Age of Globalization.” ($4,500), 2005.

Courses Taught

Graduate:

Political Sociology (SOCI 833/633 -01)

Globalization and Transnational Social Movements (SOCI 851)

Sociology of Human Rights (SOCI 857)

Digital Transformation of Society (SOCI 833/633-002)

Sociology of Globalization (SOCI 802)

Sociology of Development (SOCI 850)

Institutions, Imaginations and Transformations (SOCI 833)

Historical and Comparative Sociology (SOCI 860)

Public and Applied Sociology (SOCI 801/601)

Legal Systems and Conflict (DST5210/CONF 733)

Classical Sociological Theory (SOCI 711)

Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the State (ANTH 655)

Institutions and Inequality (SOCI 603)

Undergraduate (Upper Division):

Internship (SOCI 416)*

Co-operatives and Social Enterprise (SOCI 395/GOVT 319)*

Sociology of Human Rights (SOCI 394/CONF 394)*

Big Data, Technology, and Society (SOCI 391)*

Politics, Power, and Society (SOCI 340)*

Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CONF 340)

Social Movements and Political Protest (SOCI 307)

Armed Conflict and Conflict Resolution (SOCI 326)

Social Structure and Globalization (SOCI 320)

Identity and Conflict Analysis (CONF 302)

Research & Inquiry in Conflict Resolution (CONF 301)

* Prof. Dale also teaches this course in the Next System Fellows Program

Undergraduate (Lower Division):

Social Dynamics of Terrorism (CONF 240)

Globalization and Society (for the University Scholars Program) (SOCI 120)

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Davis, and certificate in Social Theory and Comparative History, 2003.

M.A., Sociology, The New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, New York, NY, 1991.

B.A., Sociology, Wheaton College, and certificate in Human Needs and Global Resources, Wheaton, IL, 1987.

Recent Presentations

“Hacking Big Tech’s Data Center Development? A Rights Project for Local and Trans-local Knowledge and Strategies.” Invited paper presented at European Research Council-sponsored workshop on “The Struggle for Corporate Accountability: Strategies, Tactics, Outcomes” at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, Romania, November 21, 2025.

“Adapting Peace: Addressing Emerging Challenges in Conflict Resolution (Sudan, Syria, and Myanmar),” Invited Moderator and Discussant. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. George Mason University, April 17, 2025.

“Collective Action and Cultural Refraction in Bristol Bay: Mapping Diverse Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability, Human Rights, and the Rights of Nature,” Invited paper presented at European Research Council-sponsored workshop on “Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability for Human and Environmental Rights Violations” at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, Romania, March 14, 2025.

“Social Bias in AI: Re-Coding Innovation through Algorithmic Capitalism” (with Samuel Carter). Invited Paper Presentation. Mitre Corporation, “Community of Practice Lecture Series.” Quantico, VA, July 17, 2024.

"Transnationalism ‘from Beyond’: The Dalai Lama’s Geopolitics of Reincarnation” with Maxwell Rollins (George Mason University). Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Quebec, Montreal, Canada, August 10, 2024

“Corporate Accountability, Surveillance Capitalism, and Liberal Democracy’s Digital Transformation: Europe’s Ambivalent Engagement as State Regulator, Market Participant, and Civil Society.” Paper accepted for presentation. Panel: European Engagements with Corporate Accountability. A New Utopia? Council for European Studies’ 29th International Conference of Europeanists, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 27-29, 2023.

“The Ontological Fragmentation of 'the Human’ in Human Rights: Implications for Human Rights Science Underlying Corporate Accountability.” Invited paper presented at European Research Council conference on “Civil Society and Corporate Accountability: Actors, Visions, Strategies.” National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania. May 25-26, 2023.

Invited Moderator and Discussant, Panel: The Role of Law: Myanmar’s Pro-Democracy Movement and the Legal System. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 19, 2023.

“Working Human Rights into Digital Technology Policy: Contesting Bureaucratic Furtures of Japan’s Automated ‘Society 5.0’,” with Nobuhiro Aizawa (Kyushu University, Japan). Panel: The Sociology of Human Rights and Digital Sociology, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, August 7, 2022.

“Surveillance Capitalism and Corporate Accountability: Transnational Legal Strategies for Addressing Human Rights Violations in Cyber Surveillance and Intrusion Markets.” Paper presented at Law & Society Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, July 14, 2022.

“Surveillance Capitalism and Corporate Accountability.” Invited paper presented at European Research Council conference on Transnational Mobilizations and Corporate Accountability for Gross Human Rights Violations, Institute for Advanced Studies, Paris, France, July 7, 2022.

“Exploring Contested Futures of Smart Development: Japan’s Struggle for Digital Democratization.” Invited lecture at Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan, December 14, 2021.

“Outsmarting Ourselves? The Digital Transformation of Human Rights.” Research presented at The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, January 14, 2020

In the Media

Dale has provided expert analysis on contentious politics in Myanmar for major print and broadcast media throughout the world, including the New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, PBS NewsHour, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, CNN, Al Jazeera TV News, Japan Broadcasting Corporation’s NHK TV News, BBC Radio Live, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Toronto Star, and National Geographic.

Dissertations Supervised

Junghyun Nam, Self-Disciplining Protest Within the Candlelight Protests in South Korea in 2016-2017 (2025)

Mohamed Elgohari, The Paradox of Legalism: The Instrumentalization of Law, the Militarization of Governance, and the Consolidation of Authoritarianism in Post-2011 Egypt (2025)

Hansel Aguilar, "Un Lugar Muy Especial: Navigating the Tensions Between ‘Parens Patriae’, 'Legal Violence,' and the Rights of Central American Unaccompanied Minors in the U.S. Legal System" (2024)

Maria Valdovinos Olson, The Care Promise: Understanding the Role, Promise, and Risk of Care Institutions in Prisoner Reentry (2024)

Mohamed Mohamed, Al-Azhar Re-Imagined: State Appropriation, Religious Capital, and Political Transnationalism, 1924-2024 (2024)

Sean Doody, Mapping Discourse in the Intellectual Dark Web: A Critical Computational Sociology (2022)

Stephanie Trapnell , Contesting Open Government: Discourse, Development, and Democracy (2021)

Jason Smith, Deliberating Diversity: Race and Gender in FCC Ownership Debates, 2007-2011 (2019)

Avideh Mayville, The Transformation of “Capacity” in International Development: USAID, Statecraft, and the Rise of Global Terror and Transnational Militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 1977-2017 (2018)

Abdallah Hendawy, Reluctant Radicals: from Democratic Aspiration to Violent Conspiration in the Wake of Egypt’s Arab Spring (2018)

Melissa C. Gouge, Generating Solidarity: The Playful Politics of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (2018)

William Roche, Implementing the International "Responsibility to Protect": A Sociological Case Study of the Institutional Practices of United States Department of Defense towards Operationalizing Humanitarian Intervention (2017)

Anderson Bean, Popular Power, Agency and Communes in Venezuela (2017)

Randall Salm, The Transformation of Ethnic Conflict and Identity in Syria (2016)

Sara Mitcho, The Problem of Nonviolence: Women's Protest in the United States, Post-Civil War to Post-9/11 (2014)