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 0000-0002-7507-4413
Education
- Ph.D., Northwestern University
Courses
SOCY2210 - Methods of Social Research
SOCY3377 - The Sociology of Revolutions
SOCY5599 - Economic Sociology
SOCY7761 - Second Year Graduate Writing Seminar
Research Interests
Globalization, Organizations, Economic Sociology, Latin America, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
Office Hours
By appointment
Department
RECENT PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
Chairperson, Section on Economic Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2018-19
Co-winner, 2011 best book award of the Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association, for Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations (Chicago: 2009).
Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 2005-06.
Selected Publications
Babb, Sarah. 2020. Regulating Human Research: IRBs from Peer Review to Compliance Bureaucracy . 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. Read the abstract.
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. Read the abstract.
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. Read the abstract.
Babb, Sarah. 2009. Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
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. Read the abstract.
Babb, Sarah. 2007. “Embeddedness, Inflation, and International Regimes: The IMF in the Early Postwar Period.” American Journal of Sociology 113: 128-64. Read the document.
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.