Title:  Visiting Lecturer

Office:    4176A BSB

Phone:    (312) 996-5935

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Joint Appointments:    African American Studies Department

Research Interests:    Globalization and Empire, Urban Sociology, Space and Place, Political Sociology, Nationalism, State Formation, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Africa and the Middle East

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Bio:    Andy Clarno received his MA at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is finishing his PhD in Sociology.  His dissertation is a comparative study of the relationship between economic liberalization, political transition, and urban restructuring in South Africa and Palestine/Israel.  Funded by a Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Research Fellowship and based on extensive ethnographic, photographic, and archival research in Johannesburg and Jerusalem, this project explores: the effects of neo-liberal restructuring on the political transitions of the 1990s; walled enclosures and the politics of security in Johannesburg and Jerusalem; and urban social movements and the struggle for housing.  Based on this work, he has recently published an article in Political Power and Social Theory, entitled “A Tale of Two Walled Cities: Neo-liberalization and Enclosure in Johannesburg and Jerusalem.”  He also has forthcoming articles in Blackwell Compass and two edited volumes.  His research and teaching interests include: globalization; political economy; urban sociology; race, ethnicity and nationalism; comparative historical sociology; and the sociology of Africa and the Middle East.  In 2005, Andy was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Instructor Teaching Award from the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan.