Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
McGuinn Hall 409
Telephone: 617-552-2930
Email: sarah.babb@bc.edu
ORCID
SOCY 2210 – Social Research
SOCY 5151 – Global and Transnational Sociology
SOCY 7711 – Empirical Research Seminar
SOCY 7761 – Second Year Graduate Writing Seminar
Globalization, Organizations, Regulation, Economic Sociology, Political Sociology, Historical Sociology
Winner (with Alexander Kentikelenis), 2020 best article award, Global and Transnational Section, American Sociological Association, for “The 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 “The 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 Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (Chicago: 2009).
Babb, Sarah. 2021. “The Privatization of Human Research Ethics: An American Story.” .
Babb, Sarah and Alexander Kentikelenis. 2021. “Markets 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. “The 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. “International Organizations: Loose and Tight Coupling in the Development Regime.” Studies in Comparative and International Development 51 (1): 81-102.
Babb, Sarah. 2013. “The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor.” Review of International Political Economy 20 (2): 1-30. .
Babb, Sarah. 2009. Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations. Chicago, IL: .
Chorev, Nitsan and Sarah Babb. 2009. “The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Future of International Institutions: The IMF and the WTO in Comparative Perspective.” Theory and Society 38: 459-484. .
Babb, Sarah. 2007. “Embeddedness, Inflation, and International Regimes: The IMF in the Early Postwar Period.” American Journal of Sociology 113: 128-64. .
Fourcade-Gourinchas, Marion and Sarah Babb. 2002. “The Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 108(3): 533-79.
Babb, Sarah. 2001. Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.