Ann Hironaka
Associate Professor
Ph.D. 1998 Stanford University
On leave 2007-08
email: hironaka@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Interest Areas
Political Sociology; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Globalization; Quantitative Research Methods; Environmental Sociology; Race and Ethnicity.
Current Research
“Tokens of Power: The Formation of State Interests.” In this book project I develop a theoretical model for the process by which states construct their interests, focusing particularly on decisions related to war, colonialism, and military capability.
“Long-Term Outcomes of Interventions.” This project examines the short-, mid-, and long-term outcomes of interstate interventions in terms of state stability (lack of civil war) and favorability towards the intervening state.
“Ethnic Conflict in Latin America.” This project hypothesizes that international organizations legitimate and provide resources for indigenous mobilization but these linkages are lacking for Afro-Latin organizations and movements.
Recent Publications
Neverending Wars: Weak States, the International Community, and the Perpetuation of Civil War. 2005. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
“World Society and Environmental Protection Outcomes,” with Evan Schofer. 2005. Social Forces. 84(1): 25-47.
“Science and the Environment.” 2003. Pp. 484-515 in Science in the Modern World Polity. G. Drori, J. Meyer, F. Ramirez and E. Schofer. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
“The Globalization of Environmental Protection: The Case of Environmental Impact Assessment.” 2002. International Journal of Comparative Sociology. 43(1): 65-78.
“Changing Meanings, Changing Institutions: An Institutional Analysis of Patent Legislations, 1790-1984.” 2002. Sociological Inquiry,. 72(1): 108-130.
“The Nation-State and the Natural Environment,” with David John Frank and Evan Schofer. 2000. American Sociological Review, 65(1): 96-116.
“Environmentalism as a Global Institution,” with David John Frank and Evan Schofer. 2000. American Sociological Review, 65(1): 122-127.