David Frank

David John Frank is Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Education at the University of California, Irvine. He is interested in the cultural infrastructure of world society, especially as it changes over time and varies across national contexts. In substance, he has studied the global rise and diffusion of environmental protection, the worldwide expansion and transformation of higher education, and the global re-conception and re-organization of criminal laws regulating sexual activity. He has degrees in sociology from Stanford University and the University of Chicago. Before coming to Irvine in 2002, he was on the faculty at Harvard University.

Recent book: Reconstructing the University (with Jay Gabler), Stanford University Press 2006. Available at Amazon.com and elsewhere.

Ann Hironaka

Recent book: Neverending Wars: Weak States, the International Community and the Perpetuation of Civil Wars, Harvard University Press 2005. Available at Amazon.com and elsewhere.

Evan Schofer

Evan Schofer is Associate Professor of sociology. His work traces the historical expansion of education and science, and examines how these institutions serve to rationalize society and reshape political and economic activity. His cross-national research on science and educational systems has appeared in ASR, Social Forces, and in a co-authored book entitled Science in the Modern World Polity: Globalization and Institutionalization (Stanford Press, 2003). He is currently engaged in a new project examining the long-term impact of educational expansion on the degree of economic inequality within societies. He also conducts research in the areas of comparative political sociology and globalization on topics ranging from political participation and civil society to the origins and expansion of the global environmental movement. Schofer received his BA (1991), MA (1992), and PhD (1999) in sociology from Stanford University.

Recent book: Science in the Modern World Polity: Globalization and Institutionalization. (with Gili Drori, John Meyer, and Francisco O. Ramirez), Stanford University Press 2003. Available at Amazon.com and elsewhere.