Wallerstein, Immanuel

Wallerstein, Immanuel (Maurice) (1930–  ) sociologist; born in New York City. He studied at Columbia University (B.A. 1951; M.A. 1954; Ph.D. 1959), and at Oxford (1955–56). He taught at Columbia (1958–71), McGill University, Montreal, Canada (1971–76), and State University of New York: Binghamton (1976), where he was distinguished professor of sociology and director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. He wrote many texts dealing with the economy and political systems of the world, including The Modern World-System (2 vols. 1974, 1980), The Politics of the World Economy (1984), and Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991).