Johanna Bockman
Assistant Professor
Research interests: Globalization, Neoliberalism, Economic Sociology, Socialism and Postsocialism.
Johanna Bockman is Assistant Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego in 2000. Her research focuses on globalization, neoliberalism, postsocialism, and economic expertise. She has conducted archival research and interviews with economists in Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States. At the Congressional Research Service, before coming to George Mason University, she wrote reports for Congress on reconstruction assistance in Afghanistan, humanitarian issues in Iraq, the U.S. domestic policy debate on Iraq, foreign support for the war on terrorism, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She teaches courses in globalization studies (fall 2009 and spring 2010), sociology of international development, political sociology, economic sociology, and sociology of science. During the 2008-09 academic year, she is on leave as a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress.
Home Department: Sociology and Anthropology Department Affiliations: Cultural Studies Website(s):
Email: jbockman@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1440
Office Hours: On leave.
SOCI 633 Syllabus (Spring 2008)