Faculty
Jackie Smith
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research and Teaching Interests
International Relations, Transnational dimensions of social movements
Profile
Jackie Smith co-edited a special issue of Mobilization on the World Social Forum process (Vol 13 No. 4, December 2008). Among the papers presenting original, comparative research on the World Social Forums, the issue includes an article on the 2007 United States Social Forum by Smith along with a 20+ person team of collaborators that include Kroc Institute M.A. John Filson and Ph.D. student Ana Velitchkova,Chris Hausmann, a sociology doctoral student, and sociology undergraduates Katie Miller and Sarah Van Mill.
Smith travels to Berlin this March to present her research on the World Social Forums to a research group led by Dieter Rucht at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. She then travels on to Israel’s Dead Sea region to be a keynote speaker on an international panel on “The local-global nexus of civil society.” She will discuss her research on the local impacts of the World Social Forum process and its potential lessons for building global civil society pressure for peace in the Middle East. http://sites.google.com/site/ictrconference/panel
Smith’s new book, Social Movements for Global Democracy, was named a finalist in the 2009 North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement Award competition.
Contact Information
Phone: (574) 631-2640
Fax: (574) 631-9238
Office: 307 Hesburgh Ctr
E-mail: jsmith40@nd.edu