Professor Randall Collins lectured on the subject of "Geopolitics and Power-Sharing. "

His lecture took place on Tuesday September 18, 2007, at 12:00PM in the PPEC Conference Room, Suite 305 St. Leonard's Court, 3rd Floor (map - 3819-31 Chestnut Street).

An .mp3 recording of his lecture is available as is a podcast, available through www.upenn.edu/itunes.

Website; Curriculum Vitae .pdf

Selected Publications:

2004. Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton University Press.

2004. “Rituals of solidarity and security, and processes of mass hysteria, in the wake of terrorist attack.” Sociological Theory 21

2003. “A Network-location Theory of Culture.” Sociological Theory 21: 69-73.

2003. “Fuller, Kuhn, and the Emergent Attention Space of Reflexive Studies of Science.” Social Epistemology 17: 145-150.

2003. “Sociology and Philosophy.” in Craig Calhoun, Chris Rojek, and Bryan Turner (eds.) International Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage.

2003. “The Durkheimian Movement in France and in World Sociology.” in Jeffrey Alexander and Phil Smith (eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge Univ. Press.

2003. “Mann’s Transformation of the Classical Sociological Traditions.” In John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder (eds.), An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann. Cambridge Univ. Press.

2002. “Introduction.” with Mauro Guillen, Paula England, Marshall Meyer. in The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

2002. ‘On the Acrimoniousness of Intellectual Disputes.’ Common Knowledge 8: 47-70.

2002. “Geopolitics in an Era of Internationalism." Social Evolution and History Journal vol. 1

2002. "Conflict Theory and Interaction Ritual: the Microfoundations of Conflict Theory." (with Jörge Rössel) In Jonathan Turner (ed.), Handbook of Sociological Theories. New York: Plenum Publishers.

2002. “Credential Inflation and the Future of Universities.” In Steve Brint (ed.), The Future of the City of Intellect. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Excerpted in Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 2002.

2002. “Black’s Contributions to a General Theory of Conflict.” [review essay] Contemporary Sociology 31: 655-58.

2000. "Comparative and historical patterns of education." In Maureen T. Hallinan (ed.), Handbook of the Sociology of Education. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 213-239.

2000. "Situational Stratification: A Micro-macro Theory of Inequality." Sociological Theory 18

1999: Macro-History: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1999. Macro-History: Essays in Sociology of the Long Run. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

1988: The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

1998. "Democratization in World-Historical Perspective." In Ralph Schroeder Weberian Political Sociology: Democracy, Nationalism and Modernization. London: Macmillan.

1998. The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Russian edition 2002. Italian, Chinese and Spanish editions forthcoming.