Ravi A. Palat is Professor (Department Chair) at the Department of Sociology, Binghamton University

Binghamton University

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, The State University of New York

State University of New York

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. He has undertaken extensive research in a wide ranage of areas including historical sociology, political economy, nationalism and ethnic conflict, social theory. The common theme in his work is "excavating the Eurocentric biases of social theory".

His most noted work is the book Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim (Routledge, London, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-13074-5).

He is also on the Board of the Fernand Braudel Center

Fernand Braudel Center

The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations at Binghamton University, State University of New York was founded in September 1976 and serves as one of the preeminent centers for advanced study of systemic history and historiography in the US...

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Membership of Editorial Boards of Peer Reviewed Academic Journals

• Review, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 2002-
• Critical Asian Studies, 2002-.
• Development and Society

External links

• http://sociology.binghamton.edu/2009/02/palat.html
• http://fbc.binghamton.edu/structur.htm