Franco Barchiesi

Visiting Assc Professor
Sociology

Location: 3101 James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x1773
Fax: 718.951.4639
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Franco Barchiesi's latest book is Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa(State University of New York Press and University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011). The book is the winner of the 2012 CLR James Book Award of the Working Class Studies Association. Barchiesi has also edited (with Tom Bramble) Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 'New South Africa' (London: Ashgate, 2003). From 1996 to 2002, Barchiesi taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; from 2002 to 2005 he taught in the Department of Politics at the University of Bologna (Italy); and from 2005 to 2012 he has held the positions of assistant and associate professor in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. He is an International Visiting Research Associate in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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