A. Aneesh

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Studies

Office: Bolton Hall 710
Phone: (414) 229-2234
E-mail: aneesh@uwm.edu
Vita (pdf)

Fall Office Hours: R 2:00–4:00 and by appointment

Degrees:
Ph.D., Sociology, Rutgers University
M.A., Social Relations, University of California, Irvine
Pre-PhD, Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
B.A., Economics and Philosophy, Allahabad University, India

Research Interests: Globalization; International Migration; Science and Technology; Economic Sociology; Sociological Theory; Ethnographic Methods; Intellectual Property

Teaching Interests: Classical and Contemporary Sociological Theory; Globalization; Sociology of Science and Technology; International Migration; Intellectual Property; Sociology of Work

Spring 2010 Courses
SOCIOL 376-201: Modern Sociological Theory
GLOBAL

UWinteriM 2010
SOCIOL 376-201: Modern Sociological Theory

Fall 2009 Courses
SOCIOL 927-002: Seminar in Sociology of Contemporary Institutions: Sociology of Culture (pdf)
GLOBAL 311-201: Global Contexts of Management

Summer 2009 Courses
SOCIOL 376-211: Modern Sociological Theory (pdf)

Past Course Syllabi:
SOCIOL 928: Seminar in Social Organization: Globalization and Technology (pdf)
GLOBAL 202: Globalization and Communication Technology (pdf)
GLOBAL 311: Global Contexts of Management (pdf)
GLOBAL 351: Language, Media and Social Practice (pdf)
GLOBAL 448: Intellectual Property in the Global Information Economy (pdf)

Selected Publications:
"Bloody Language: Clashes and Construction of Linguistic Nationalism in India," Sociological Forum, 25, 2, June 2010.

"Global Labor: Algocratic Modes of Organization," Sociological Theory, 27, 4, 2009.

Virtual Migration: the Programming of Globalization, Duke University Press 2006. Virtual Migration

"Between Fantasy and Despair: the transnational condition and high-tech immigration" in Immigrant Life in the United States: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives, edited by Dona Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach. Routledge 2003.

"Skill Saturation: Rationalization and Post-industrial Work (pdf)," Theory and Society, Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2001.

Rethinking Migration: High-skilled Labor Flows from India to the United States (pdf), in The International Migration Of The Highly Skilled: Demand, Supply, And Development Consequences, edited by Wayne A. Cornelius and Thomas J. Espenshade. La Jolla, CA: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California-San Diego, 2001.