Sociology Faculty Directory
Sarah Babb
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Sarah Babb
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall 409
Telephone: 617-552-2930
Email: sarah.babb@bc.edu
ORCID
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
Courses
SOCY 2210 � Social Research
SOCY 5151 � Global and Transnational Sociology
SOCY 7711 � Empirical Research Seminar
SOCY 7761 � Second Year Graduate Writing Seminar
Research Interests
Globalization, Organizations, Regulation, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Historical Sociology
Department
RECENT PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
Winner (with Alexander Kentikelenis), 2020 best article award, Global and Transnational Section, American Sociological Association, for 淭he Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.�
Co-winner (with Alexander Kentikelenis), 2020 Charles Tilly Article Award, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, for 淭he Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.�
Co-winner, 2011 best book award, Global and Transnational Section, American Sociological Association, for聽Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations聽(Chicago: 2009).
Selected Publications
Babb, Sarah. 2021. 淭he Privatization of Human Research Ethics: An American Story.� .
Babb, Sarah and Alexander Kentikelenis. 2021. 淢arkets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change.� Annual Review of Sociology 47(1): 521-41. .
Babb, Sarah. 2020. . Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.
Kentikelenis, Alexander and Sarah Babb. 2019. 淭he Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.� American Journal of Sociology 124(6): 1720-62.
Babb, Sarah and Nitsan Chorev. 2016. 淚nternational Organizations: Loose and Tight Coupling in the Development Regime.� Studies in Comparative and International Development 51 (1): 81-102.
Babb, Sarah. 2013. 淭he Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor.� Review of International Political Economy 20 (2): 1-30.聽.
Babb, Sarah. 2009.聽Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations. Chicago, IL:聽.
Chorev, Nitsan and Sarah Babb. 2009. 淭he Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Future of International Institutions: The IMF and the WTO in Comparative Perspective.澛�Theory and Society聽38: 459-484.聽.
Babb, Sarah. 2007. 淓mbeddedness, Inflation, and International Regimes: The IMF in the Early Postwar Period.澛�American Journal of Sociology聽113: 128-64.聽.
Fourcade-Gourinchas, Marion and Sarah Babb. 2002. 淭he Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries.澛�American Journal of Sociology聽108(3): 533-79.
Babb, Sarah. 2001.聽Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.