Professor Beverly J. Silver

Professor within the Department of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies

Beverly J. Silver is a Professor within the Department of Sociology and Director of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include Historical capitalism, comparative and world-historical research methods, global inequality and development, labor, and social movements. She has publications in several prestigious journals and authored the popular books, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (with Giovanni Arrighi et al) and Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870. She has also won numerous awards including the 2005 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the American Sociological Association.