Faculty
Robert J. S. Ross, Ph.D.
Director of ISS
Professor of Sociology
Jefferson Academic Center
Phone: 508-793-7376
rjsross@clarku.edu
personal web page
Dr. Ross received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1963, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1966 and 1975, respectively. He has been at Clark since 1972. Dr. Ross directs the ISS Program and is also affiliated with the programs in Peace Studies, Urban Development and Social Change, Ethics and Public Policy, and Race and Ethnic Relations. He is author of Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops. Dr. Ross teaches the ISS core course IDND067/SOC167: Problems of Globalization.|
J. Richard Peet, Ph.D.
Professor of Geography
Jefferson Academic Center Room 2
Phone: 508 793-7364
rpeet@clarku.edu
Dr. Peet teaches the ISS core course IDND066: Global Society. Dr. Peet received a B.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His areas of interest include: social and economic geography, political ecology, liberation ecology, development theory, geography of consciousness and rationality, philosophy and social theory, iconography, semiotics, and New England. His book Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO was published in 2003.