marilyn grell-brisk

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class – it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity." Ann Julia Cooper.

Service in community

Member: UCR Disaster Resiliency Network Committee (UCR-DRN), University of California, Riverside (2021 to present)

Member: Activist-Artist In Residence (AAIR) with Community Engagement Center, Committee, Pitzer College (1/1/2022 to 5/1/2022; 2/1/2023 to present)

Member: Scholar Activist Committee of the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association (2017 to present).

Member: Black Studies Initiative at UCR; Curriculum Committee Lead (2020 to 2022)

Member: American Sociological Association Race, Gender, Class Section Book Award Committee (2021/2022).

Member: American Sociological Association Sociology of Development Section Book Award Committee (2018/2019 & 2021/2022).

Member: American Sociological Association Political Economy of the World-System Section Book Award Committee (2020/2021).

Co-editor: PEWSNews: Official Newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Political Economy of the World-System Section (Coeditor – 2018 to 2021).

Editorial Assistant: Work in Progress Blog (American Sociological Association) (2018/2019).

Co-editor: Trajectories: Official Newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Comparative Historical Sociology Section (2016 to 2018).

Member: Organizing/Scientific Committee for International Conference on Past, Present and Future Africa-Asia Relations (2017 to 2019).

Copy-editor: Journal of World Systems Research (2016 to present).

Reviewer: Historical Materialism Journal; Journal of World Systems Research; Sociology of Development; Palgrave Communications; International Journal of Comparative Sociology

Conference Panels and Sessions Organized

  • Contending Models of World Order: Hegemony, Tianxia, Global Caliphate and Beyond. Paper Session at the International Studies Association. March 2020. Conference Canceled due to COVID19.
  • Spatio-temporal bounding of whole systemic interpolity systems: the difficult outer edge and other issues. Paper Session International Studies Association. March 2022.
  • Undergraduate Research: Challenging the Structures of Social Inequality Panels A&B. Paper Sessions California Sociological Association. Virtual. November 2021.
  • The “Other”, Global Inequalities, and Race (with Prof. Chase-Dunn). Special Session at the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting. August 2018
  • Round-table Session Organizer for the American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System. August 2017.
  • Chinese Outward Investments in Southeast Asia: Development for Whom? Transformations Where? Association for Asian Studies 2017 Annual Conference. March 2017.
  • Development, Inequality and Hierarchy: Regional and Global Aspects. 41st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association. Chicago, IL. November 2016.
  • China in the Global South: Perspectives on the Geography of Development. (with Alvin A. Camba) Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers. San Francisco, CA. April 2016.
  • China and the Global South. (with Alvin A. Camba) Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association. Oakland, CA. March/April 2016.
  • China and the Global South: Perspectives on Development. (with Alvin A. Camba). Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA. March 2016.

i am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Organizational Studies Field Group and a faculty member of the Critical Action and Social Advocacy (CASA) program at Pitzer College.

The Logics of Antiblackness and Coloniality in the Push for Climate (In)Action. In The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action. e.d. Paul Almeida. Oxford University Press.

With ANdiNA. Listening Deeply to Indigenous People: A Collaborative Perspective and Reflection Between a Mapuche Machi and Ecologists. Ecology and Evolution.

Parasitism and the Logics of Anti-Indigeneity and Antiblackness. Journal of World-Systems Research, 29(1): 4-24.

Critical World-Systems Analysis: Thoughts on Organizing Against Antiblackness Across Global-Local Boundaries. Journal of World-Systems Research. 28(2): 242-266