Prof. April Linton is a co-editor of and contributor to, The Global Governance of Food, recently published by Routledge. Our need for food is a constant; how we acquire food is a variable; and the production, commercialization, and consumption of food therefore offer an invaluable window onto the globalization of the world we inhabit. Food provides an ideal site for answering the fundamental questions of governance of central concern to globalization debates. This book presents recent and interdisciplinary scholarship about the variety of mechanisms governing global food systems and their impacts on human and environmental well-being

Sociology Professor John Skrentny has been named Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and Sociology Professor David Fitzgerald has been named Associate Director of the Center.  The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California-San Diego. The Center is an interdisciplinary, multinational research and training program devoted to comparative work on international migration and refugee movements. Its primary missions are to conduct comparative and policy-oriented research, train academic researchers, students, and practitioners, and disseminate its research to academics, policymakers, and NGOs through research seminars, conferences, publications, the internet, and the mass media.