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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 teaches courses in quantitative research methods, social movements, consumerism, and energy and society.
His current research focuses on the development of renewable energy industries, the diffusion of local, regional and national policies on issues ranging from environmental protection to civil liberties to living wage, and the adoption and implementation of green practices by corporations, universities, and local governments.
Vasi recently published Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy Industry, Oxford University Press, 2010. His recently published work has also appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Mobilization.
He earned a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University (2005), MA in Sociology from Central European University (1998), and BA in Sociology from University of Bucharest (1997).
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