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ADMINISTRATION
Michel S. Laguerre
Professor & Director
bcgit@uclink.berkeley.edu
After completing high school at the Petit Seminaire College St Martial in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Michel S. Laguerre immigrated to Canada where he graduated with a BA in philosophy from the University of Quebec. He later earned a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Previously he taught at Loyola University in New Orleans, Temple University in Philadelphia, and came to Berkeley from Fordham University's Department of Sociology where he held a visiting professorship for a year while completing a book project on Caribbean immigration to New York City. He has been teaching at Berkeley since 1978 and from 2000 on he has been serving as the director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the Institute of Governmental Studies. His areas of interest and expertise include diaspora politics, network governance, information technology, global metropolitan studies, island studies, and transnational parliaments.
Laguerre is the author of several books including American Odyssey (Cornell University Press, 1984), Urban Poverty in the Caribbean (Macmillan Press, 1990), The Military and Society in Haiti (University of Tennessee Press, 1993), The Informal City (Macmillan Press, 1994), Diasporic Citizenship (Macmillan Press, 1998), The Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society (Macmillan Press, 2000), Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), The Digital City (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2005), Diaspora, Politics and Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2006) and Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London and Berlin (State University of New York Press, 2008) to name a few. His essays include, for example, "Network Governance of Asian American Diasporic Politics" (2009), "Diasporic Lobbying in American Politics" (2004), "State Diaspora and Transnational Politics" (1999), "Wiring the Local: The Production of the Global" (2007), "Diasporic Globalization: Reframing the Local/Global Question" (2007), "The Muslim Chronopolis and Diasporic Temporality" (2004), "Virtual Time: The Processuality of the Cyberweek" (2004), and "Diasporic Politics in the European Union: Paris' City Hall and the Jewish Quarter" (2007).
Laguerre was the recipient of a Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship and later he held the Barbara Weinstock Lectureship on the Morals of Trade.
Laguerre has recently completed a research project on "Jerusalem, Rome and Mecca: Network Governance of Global Religions in the Digital Age" (forthcoming) and is now carrying out field research for a book on transnational parliaments. He has served on the Executive Committee of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Berkeley and on various committees of the Academic Senate. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, and a fellow of the American Anthropological Association.
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