Chris Carlson
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr. Chris Carlson holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from the City University of New York's Graduate Center and a master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary areas of research are the political economy of development, Latin America, agrarian studies, and globalization. He has conducted research in both Venezuela and Brazil.
Education
BA in Liberal Arts, Colorado State University
MA in Latin American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PhD in Sociology, City University of New York
Specialization in Teaching
INT 200 – Global Capitalism and its Discontents
INT 300 –Interdisciplinarity and International Studies
INT 345 - Economic and Social Problems in Latin America
INT 356 - Globalization and Social Change
Research Interests
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2022 “The agrarian roots of divergent development: A case study of 20th century Brazil.” American Sociological Review
2019 “Agrarian Structure and Underdevelopment in Latin America: Bringing the Latifundio ‘Back In’.” Latin American Research Review, 54(3), 678-693
2018 “Rethinking the Agrarian Question: Agriculture and Underdevelopment in the Global South.” Journal of Agrarian Change, 18(4), 481-490
2017 “Latifundio and the Logic of Underdevelopment: The Case of Venezuela’s Sur del Lago.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 44(1), 286-308
Book chapters and reviews
2019 “The Global Development Crisis.” Review of Radical Political Economics, 51(4), 693–697
2018 “Rural Property Relations and the Regional Dynamics of Brazilian Capitalism,” in Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism, eds: Xavier Lafrance and Charles Post
2016 “The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World.” Contemporary Sociology, July 2016, 45(4): 523
Forthcoming/under review
“When capitalists don’t accumulate: the economic logic of underdevelopment in Brazil’s Northeast.” Theory and Society