Robert K. Schaeffer, Ph.D.
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz, 1975
M.A. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1977
Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton, 1985
Interests: World-System, Globalization, Movements, Environment, Gender

I studied with Immanuel Wallerstein at Binghamton, worked as an editor for environmental organizations (Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace) for ten years, taught sociology at San Jose State for ten years, and came to Kansas State in 2000, where I teach undergraduate classes on "bureaucracy" and "global problems" and graduate classes on "social change," "social movements," and the "environment."

I have published books on partition (Warpaths: The Politics of Partition; Severed States: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Divided World; War in the World-System), democratization (Power to the People: Democratization Around the World), globalization (Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic and Environmental Change, now in a 4th edition), and feminism (Fast Forward: Work, Gender and Protest in a Changing World; Transformations: Feminist Pathways to Global Change: An Analytical Anthology).