Dr. Kelvin Santiago-Valles

Professor of Sociology

Kevin Santiago-Valles is a Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University-SUNY. His research focuses on ethno-racial labor formation, political economy, and social regulation in the capitalist world-system. Recently, he finished a book manuscript tentatively titled "Race," Labor, and Empire: Global-Racial Regimes and “Primitive” Accumulation in the Historical Long-Term and is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Race-Making in World-Historical Perspective: Social Regulation in the Spanish Atlantic, 1650-1870. He has published numerous book chapters and journal articles that address: regulatory apparatuses (penal discipline in particular); the multiple social resistances to hegemonic forms of domination and exploitation (especially, the criminal justice system); worldwide structures of meaning and the conceptual-methodological frameworks used to study such structures; Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S. Latina/o studies; the African diaspora and critical race theories/critical legal studies; urban studies, visual culture, and the social production of space; as well as gender and sexuality; all this from long-term/large-scale perspectives.