Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Cochair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press/Belknap, 2014). Older books include the fourth, fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage, 2012), Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W. W. Norton, 2007), and The Global City (Princeton University Press, 1991/2001). Her books have been translated into over twenty languages. She has received diverse awards, including multiple doctorates honoris causa and the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences, and has been chosen as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy (2011), one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders by GDI-MIT (2012 and 2013), and one of the Top 50 Global Thinkers by Prospect Magazine (2014).