Michael Timberlake Professor 426 BEH S - 581-8132 336 BEH S - 581-6950 Front Office - 581-6153 timber@soc.utah.edu VITA

Michael Timberlake (Ph.D., Brown University) joined the sociology faculty in July 2001 from the  Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. Before that he was at the University of Memphis, and a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His teaching interests include urban and rural communities, urbanization, comparative social change, and research methodology. Timberlake's research experience includes quantitative cross-national studies of inequality, political violence, and urbanization; theoretical and empirical development of a world-city network approach to understanding globalization; and in-depth qualitative study of four Mississippi Delta communities, with a focus on the social inequality in relation to community legacies and social/economic practices and policies. Representative publications include “Cities and Globalization” Chapter 12 in G. Ritzer, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Globalization.  Blackwell (with X. Ma, 2007), "Korea's Global City: Structural and Political Implications of Seoul's Ascendance in the Global Urban Hierarchy,"  International Journal of Comparative Sociology (with K.H. Shin, 2006); "World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links," American Behavioral Scientist (with D. Smith, June, 2001); "Dependence, Political Exclusion, and Government Repression: Some Cross-National Evidence," American Sociological Review (with K. Williams, February, 1984); and "The Mississippi Delta: Change or Continued Trouble" (with S. Hyland, in Lyson and Falk, eds., Forgotten Places, 1993).  Some of his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Aspen Institute.