Salvatore Babones
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Room 131 RC Mills Building, A26 +612 9351 4253 |
Current Position: Senior Lecturer
Other offices held:
- 2012-[current]: Associate Fellow, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Riga
- 2011-[current]: Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington
- 2012-2014: Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past-Chair (3-year cycle), Section on Political Economy of the World-System, American Sociological Association
- 2011-2014: Vice President, Research Committee 02 - Economy and Society, International Sociological Association
Research interests
Dr. Babones is the author or editor of four books and more than two dozen academic research articles. His academic research focuses on income inequality, economic development, and statistical methods for comparative social science research. He writes a weekly column for the Inequality.org website and contributes to progressive websites and newsletters across America.
Current teaching
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
- 2010-2012: "Globalisation and the Global Income Distribution in Times of Stability and in Times of Crisis." Australian Research Council (AUD 125,000)
- 2006-2008: "Globalization and the World-Economy," United States National Science Foundation Sociology Program (USD 41,144)
- 2005-2006: "Pitt International Conference on Inequality, Health, and Society," University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh (USD 20,000)
- 2004-2006: "Global Income Allocation," Central Research Development Fund, University of Pittsburgh (USD 13,575)
Publications
Books
Salvatore J. Babones and Christopher K. Chase-Dunn (eds.). 2012. Routledge International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis. Oxford: Routledge.
Salvatore J. Babones (ed.). 2009. Social Inequality and Public Health. Bristol: The Policy Press. 276 pages.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. The International Structure of Income: Its Implications for Economic Growth. Saarbruecken: VDM Publishing. 204 pages.
Christopher K. Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones (eds.). 2006. Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 384 pages.
Chapters in Books
Salvatore J. Babones. 2012. "Position and Mobility in the Contemporary World-Economy: A Structuralist Perspective." Pp. 327-335 in Routledge International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, edited by Salvatore J. Babones and Christopher K. Chase-Dunn. Oxford: Routledge.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "Inequality and Health: Models for Moving from Science to Policy." Pp. 185-197 in Social Inequality and Public Health, edited by Salvatore J. Babones. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "What the Public Needs to Know about Social Inequality and Public Health." Pp. 231-235 in Social Inequality and Public Health, edited by Salvatore J. Babones. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues." Pp. 144-161. in The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, George Ritzer, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2006. "Conducting Global Social Research." Pp. 8-30 in Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones, editors. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jonathan H. Turner and Salvatore J. Babones. 2006. "Global Inequality: An Introduction." Pp. 109-134 in Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Christopher K. Chase Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones, editors. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Articles in Referred Journals
Salvatore J. Babones. 2012. "A Structuralist Perspective on Economic Growth in China and India: Anticipating an Amazonian End Game." Forthcoming in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Salvatore J. Babones and Robin M. Farabee-Siers. 2012. "Indices of Trade Partner Concentration for 183 Countries, 1980-2008." Forthcoming in Journal of World-Systems Research.
Salvatore J. Babones, Robin M. Farabee-Siers, and Francisco J. Morales. 2011. "Dependency Trends in the Globalization Era: Evidence from Export Partner Concentration." Population Review 50:134-149.
Salvatore J. Babones and Philipp Babcicky. 2010. "The Globalization Challenge to Population Health." International Review of Modern Sociology 36:101-120.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2010. "Income, Education, and Class Gradients in Health in Global Perspective." Health Sociology Review 19:131-144.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2010. "Trade Globalisation, Economic Development, and the Importance of Education-as-Knowledge." Journal of Sociology 46:45-61.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "The Consistency of Self-Rated Health in Comparative Perspective." Public Health 123:199-201.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2009. "Modeling Error in Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research." Journal of World-Systems Research 15:86-114.
Salvatore J. Babones and Dorian C. Vonada. 2009. "Trade Globalization and National Income Inequality – Are They Related?" Journal of Sociology 45:5-30.
Salvatore J. Babones. 2008. "Income Inequality and Population Health: Correlation and Causality." Social Science and Medicine 66:1614-1626.
Salvatore J. Babones and Xi Zhang. 2008. "Heterogeneity in the Global South in the Relationship between Income Inequality and Foreign Trade." International Review of Modern Sociology 36:95-108.
Salvatore J. Babones, Kandi Felmet, and Jackie Hwang. 2007. "A Research Note: Investigating the Lag Structure of the Education - Income Inequality Relationship." Michigan Sociological Review 21:179-191.
Salvatore J. Babones and Maria Jose Alvarez-Rivadulla. 2007. "Standardized Income Inequality Data for Use in Cross-National Research." Sociological Inquiry 77:3-22.
Riccardo Pelizzo and Salvatore J. Babones. 2007. "The Political Economy of Polarized Pluralism." Party Politics 13:53-67.