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Ion Bogdan Vasi
International Affairs Building, Room 1407
Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-5717
ion.vasi@sipa.columbia.edu
bv2125@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/~bv2125/
Biography:
Ion Bogdan Vasi received his PhD in Sociology from Cornell University in 2005 and joined the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in the same year. Professor Vasi's research focuses on how social movements contribute to the diffusion of technological innovations, organizational change, and policy making. He also studies industry emergence and the adoption and implementation of environmental practices by businesses. His major areas of interest are social movements, organizational behavior, environmental sociology, political and economic sociology, and his research is often situated at the intersection of those areas. His recent published work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Mobilization. He recently completed a book with Oxford University Press entitled Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy Industry.
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