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Thomas Ponniah (born Month Day, Year at Town, Country) is an Citizenship sociologist interested in something and international something. He is currently a lecturer of Social Studies at Harvard University.

Family and early life
Thomas grew up in Town where his parents who were Country immigrants moved to in Year. Additional information....

Education
Thomas obtained a B.A. in 1988 from the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University, Canada.

He then obtained a Master of Social Science in 1992 from the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, England. His masters thesis focused on postcolonial theory and his advisor was Richard Johnson, former director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. He also obtained a Master of Arts(M.A.) in Comparative Literature, from [Rutgers University]] in [1999]. His M.A. thesis adviser was Bruce Robbins.

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Geography of [Clark University]] in [2006]. His dissertation focused on globalization, development, social movements and social theory. His doctoral committee members were Richard Peet, William Fisher, Robers J.S. Ross, Yuko Aoyama and Jody Emel.

Professional Experience
Lecturer on Social Studies, 2006-2009, Harvard University

Courses:

Social Studies 10. This course covers modern social theory (Smith, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Beauvoir, Foucault, Habermas…) Senior Thesis Writers Tutorial. (Ponniah designed this course in 2005 for the program. Over half of the Seniors take the course)

Theories of Globalization and Development (Freshman Seminar)

Globalization and Global Justice (Freshman Seminar)

Theories of Development (Junior Tutorial)

Past and Present Senior Thesis Advisees:

Jennifer Chang “The Poor People's Orchestra in Venezuela” (2007)

Betsy McCormack: “Culture and Community in Argentina” (2007)

Erik Garrison: “Alienation, Community and the Re-Emergence of Pre-Industrial Life in the Information Age” (2006)

Margo Hoppin: “The Iraq War and World War II” (2005)

Lola Kassim: “The Millennium Development Goals” (2004)

Teaching Fellow, 2003-2006, Harvard University. Program in Social Studies.

Teaching Assistant, Autumn 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. Global Society.

Teaching Assistant, Spring 2001, 2000. Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. Political Economy of Third World Development.

Professor (Full-time) 1994-1997 (and Summer Sessions 1998-2004). Community Worker Program, Division of Community Services and Development, George Brown, the City College, Toronto, Canada.

Courses:

Poli Sci I: Introduction to Political Science.

Poli Sci II: Survey of the Twentieth Century.

Human Rights.

Introduction to Sociology.

Interpersonal Communication.

Group Dynamics.

Introduction to Field Work.

Basic Writing.

Advanced Writing Skills.

Edited books

 * Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-691-11986-4, ISBN 0-691-11987-2.


 * Global networks, linked cities, ed. Saskia Sassen (New York : Routledge, 2002) ISBN 0-415-93162-2, ISBN 0-415-93163-0.

Book chapters

 * "Electronic markets and activist networks: The weight of social logics in digital formations", in Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm, eds. Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005) ISBN 0-691-11986-4, ISBN 0-691-11987-2, p. 54-88.


 * "Beyond sovereignty: de facto transnationalism in immigration policy", in eds. Friedmann, Jonathan and Randeria, Shalini, Worlds on the move : globalization, migration, and cultural security (London ; New York : Tauris 2004) xix, 372 p., 24 см, Series : Toda institute book series on global peace and policy 6, ISBN 1-86064-951-3.


 * "Mediating practices : women with/in cyberspace", in eds. John Armitage and Joanne Roberts, Living with cyberspace : technology & society in the 21st century (London : Athlone ; New York : Continuum, 2002) viii, 203 p., ISBN 0-485-00444-5, ISBN 0-485-00636-7, ISBN 0-8264-6035-6, ISBN 0-8264-6036-4.

Articles

 * "How Population Lies : True, big cities no longer draw big numbers. But that doesn't mean their power is slipping too.", Newsweek International, July 3-10 2006.


 * "Migration policy: from control to governance : In the United States and Europe alike, immigration policy isn't working -- and the failure is most evident at the crossing-points of the rich and poor worlds, from the Mexican border to the Canary Islands.", Open Democracy, July 13, 2006.


 * "The repositioning of citizenship and alienage: Emergent subjects and spaces for politics", Globalizations, volume 2, number 1, (2005), p. 79-94.


 * "Regulating Immigration in a Global Age: A New Policy Landscape", Parallax, volume 11, number 1 (2005), p. 35-45.


 * "Comment: We seem to have forgotten history", The Guardian, February 26, 2004.

"What happens when we look at the history of immigration for clues about what is a constraint and what is a possibility? Historical demography shows us that all European societies have incorporated foreign immigrant groups and that it has often taken no more than a few generations to turn them into a community that can experience solidarity..."


 * "Going Beyond the National State in the USA: The Politics of Minoritized Groups in Global Cities", Diogenes, volume 51, number 3 (2004), p. 59-65.


 * "The new lords of Africa", in The Guardian July 9, 2003; ; also in Peacework, volume 30, number 338, September 2003, p20-21, ISSN 0748-0725.


 * "report: Terrorism in the US &mdash; A message from the global south", in The Guardian, September 12, 2001.


 * "Yesterday's attack brings home the fact that we cannot hide behind our peace and prosperity. The evidence has been growing but our leaders did not want to see it. The horrors of wars and deaths far away in the global south do not register. But missile shields cannot protect us. Powerful states cannot fully escape bricolage terrorism, nail bombs, elementary nuclear devices, and homemade biological weapons.


 * "The growth of debt and unemployment, and the decline of traditional economic sectors, has fed an illegal trade in people..."


 * "Special report: refugees in Britain &mdash; Unstoppable immigrants", in The Guardian, September 12, 2000.


 * "...the debate about whether or not to allow the entry of foreign hi-tech workers is but one element of a far broader and more fundamental reconfiguring of specialised labour markets under the impact of economic globalisation."


 * "in Britain: special report &mdash; Home truths: The notion that the west is threatened with mass invasions of immigrants is a myth", The Guardian, Saturday April 15, 2000.


 * "Women's burden : counter-geographies of globalization and the feminization of survival", Journal of international affairs, [New York], volume 53, number 2, p. 504-524, 2000, ISSN 0022-197X.


 * Cities : between global actors and local conditions (College Park, MD. : Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, c1999) "The 1997 Lefrak monograph".


 * "Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy", in European Journal of Migration and Law, volume 1, p. 177-198, 1999; also published as The De-facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy (Florence: Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, 1996).


 * "Global financial centers", in Foreign affairs, [New York], volume 78, number 1, p. 75-87, 1999, ISSN 0015-7120.


 * The De-facto Transnationalizing of Immigration Policy (Florence: Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, 1996); [also published as "Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy", in European Journal of Migration and Law, volume 1, 1999, p. 177-198.]


 * Transnational economies and national migration policies (Amsterdam : Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, 1996) ISBN 90-5589-038-3.


 * "Analytic borderlands : race, gender and representation in the new city", in ed. King, Anthony D., Re-presenting the city : ethnicity, capital, and culture in the 21st-century metropolis (New York : New York University Press, 1996) p. 183-202, ISBN 0-8147-4678-0, ISBN 0-8147-4679-9.
 * [with Morita, Kiriro], "The New illegal immigration in Japan 1980-1992", in The international migration review (New York : Center for Migration Studies, 1994), volume 28, number 1, p. 153-163, ISSN 0197-9183.


 * [with Smith, Robert] Post-industrial employment and third world immigration : casualization and the new Mexican migration in New York (New York, N.Y. : Columbia University, Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, 1991) Series : Papers on Latin America #26.


 * New York City's informal economy (Los Angeles, Calif. : University of California Los Angeles, Institute for Social Science Research, [1988?]) Series : ISSR working papers in the social sciences, 1988-89, volume 4, number 9.

Dissertations

 * [as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Non-dominant ethnic populations as a possible component of the U.S. political economy : the case of blacks and Chicanos (Dissertation, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1974).


 * [as Sassen-Koob, Saskia] Social stratification, ethnicity and ideology : Anglos and Chicanos in the United States (Thesis, M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1971).

Interviews

 * "The ideas interview: Saskia Sassen -- John Sutherland meets a social scientist who argues that we need to understand the full complexities and dangers of globalisation.", The Guardian, July 4 2006.