Christopher Chase-Dunn

                     Department of Sociology
                    Johns Hopkins University
                  Baltimore, Maryland 21218 USA
                         (410) 516-7633
                       Fax # 410 516 7590
                E-mail: CHRISCD@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU

Personal Data:

Date of Birth:         January 10, 1944
Place of Birth:        Corvallis, Oregon
Marital Status:        Married

Education:

1964                   Shasta College, Redding, CA. 
1966                   University of California, Berkeley,
                       Psychology, B.A.
1968                   Stanford University, Sociology, MA
1975                   Stanford University, Sociology, Ph.D.

Awards and Fellowships:

1966-1967              National Institute of Health Traineeship,
                       Stanford

1973-1974              University Consortium for World Order
                       Studies, James P. Warburg Research Fellow

1992                   Distinguished Publication Award, PEWS
                       section of ASA for Global Formation.
Job History:

1975-1983              Assistant Professor, Department of Social
                       Relations, Johns Hopkins University

1983-1988              Associate Professor, Department of
                       Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

1988-                  Professor, Department of Sociology, Johns
                       Hopkins University

Research Experience:
                       
1973-1974              Project Director of Cross-national Study
                       of the Effects of International Economic
                       Dependence on Income Inequality,
                       University Consortium for World Order
                       Studies

Research Experience (Cont'd):

1975-1978              Associate Research Scientist, Center for
                       Metropolitan Planning and Research, Johns
                       Hopkins University

1979-1984              Principal Investigator of Cross-national
                       Research Project on the World Division of
                       Labor and the Development of City Systems
                       (NSF)

1991-1993              Principal Investigator research project on
                       "Intersocietal inequalities in very small 
                       world-systems" (NSF)

Areas of Teaching Interest:

                       Sociology of Development, Social Change,
                       Stratification, Comparative Sociology,
                       Urbanization, International Political
                       Economy, Comparative Methods

Current Research:

                       Continuation of project studying patterns
                       of national urbanization in the context of
                       the larger global political economy.

                       A comparative study of stateless, state-
                       based and modern world-systems --
                       comparisons of structures and logics of
                       competition and development.

Professional Activities:

1984-1986              Chair of the International Studies
                       Association section on International
                       Political Economy

1983-present           Chair of Graduate Curriculum Committee,
                       Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins
                       University

1982                   Chair of the ASA Section on the Political
                       Economy of the World-System

1982                   Member of University Committee to
                       Reorganize The Atlantic Seminar

1980-1982              Secretary of the ASA Section on Marxist
                       Sociology

Professional Activities: (Cont'd)
1973-                  Associate Editor, Critical Sociology

1979-1982              Associate Editor, Social Problems

1978-1985              Advisory Editor, Sociological Quarterly

1980-1989              Editorial Advisory Board, International
                       Studies Quarterly

1984-                  Member of Board of Editors, International
                       Political Economy Yearbook

1992-                  International Board, Review of
                       International Political Economy

1988-1991              Member of Ruling Council of the
                       International Society for the Comparative
                       Study of Civilizations

1988-                  Member of Editorial Board, Journal of
                       Political and Military Sociology
1992-                  Social Science Faculty Editorial Board,
                       Johns Hopkins University Press

                       Journal Referee for American Sociological
                       Review, American Journal of Sociology,
                       Journal of Conflict Resolution,
                       International Studies Quarterly, Social
                       Science Quarterly, Sociology of Education,
                       Comparative Political Studies, Social
                       Forces, Journal of Political and Military
                       Sociology, Urban Affairs Quarterly,
                       Demography, Comparative Studies in Society
                       and History, American Indian Culture and
                       Research Journal, etc.