Kathleen Schwartzman

Professor Emeritus, School of Sociology
Kathleen C. Schwartzman

Social Sciences 419

Research Areas
International Commerce
Food imports and exports in development and dependency of lesser developed nations.
Political economy of food from a world-system perspective

Kathleen C. Schwartzman is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Arizona, with research interests in political sociology, economic development, and Latin America. She is author of The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the AmericasThe Social Origins of Democratic Collapse: The First Portuguese Republic in the Global Economy, and numerous articles about the economic, political, and social consequences of global integration. Sponsored by the sociology department.