The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at Binghamton University

Binghamton University

Binghamton University, also formally called State University of New York at Binghamton, , is a public research university in the State of New York. The University is one of the four university centers in the State University of New York system...

, State University of New York

State University of New York

The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...

 was founded in September 1976 and serves as one of the preeminent centers for advanced study of systemic history (especially the world-systems dynamics) and historiography in the US. It is named after the famous French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School. His scholarship focused on three main projects, each representing several decades of intense study: The Mediterranean , Civilization and Capitalism , and the unfinished Identity of France...

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The following Professors are on the Executive Board - the governing body of the Center: Barbara Abou-el-Haj (Art & Art History), Fa-ti Fan (History), William G. Martin (Sociology), Randall McGuire (Anthropology), Ravi Arvind Palat

Ravi Arvind Palat

Ravi A. Palat is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, The State University of New York. He has undertaken extensive research in a wide ranage of areas including historical sociology, political economy, nationalism and ethnic conflict, social theory...

 (Sociology) Coordinator of Programs, Denis O'Hearn (Sociology), Dale Tomich (Sociology & History), Thomas M. Wilson (Anthropology) and as Director Richard E. Lee (Sociology).

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein is a US sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst...

was head of the Center until 2005.