Artist
Saskia Sassen
Via New York, NY, USA
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014). Other titles include 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 20 languages. She has received diverse awards, from multiple doctor honoris causa to the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences. She has also been chosen as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy-2011, Top 100 Thought Leaders by GDI-MIT 2012 and 2013, Top 50 Global Thinkers Prospect Magazine 2014.
