Michel S. Laguerre is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published "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), "Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things" (University of California's Institute of Governmental Studies Press, 1999), "The Global Ethnopolis: Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society" (Macmillan Press, 2000), "An Urban Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City" (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2003). His essays have appeared in California Management Review, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups and Information, Communication and Society. He was a visiting professor at Harvard in 1991-2, and in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT in 2001-2002. He held in 1994-5 at UC Berkeley the Barbara Weinstock lectureship on the Morals of Trade. He is completing two new volumes entitled "The American Metropolis and the Internet: The Rise of the Digital City." and "Diasporic Politics: Hostland and Homeland."


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