SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Scott Martin
International Affairs Building, 13th Floor
Adjunct Lecturer of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-3213
srm2@columbia.edu

Biography:

Scott B. Martin, PhD (Columbia, 2001) lectures on international affairs and in particular comparative political economy of development issues at The New School and Columbia University, and also works as a regular free lance contributor to the Economist Intelligence Unit‘s New York office.   He is co-author (with Ilán Bizberg) of Globalización y Estado de Bienestar:  El Caso de Norteamérica (El Colegio de México press, 2012) exploring social policy and labor regulation in Mexico, Canada, and the United States comparatively.   He is co-editor and contributor to The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America (Oxford, 1997), Competividade e Desenvolvimento: Atores e Instituições Locais (São Paulo, SENAC, 2001), and Business and Industry (Marshall Cavendish, 2003).  He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, most recently “New Directions in Public Policy and State-Society Relations,” in Mauricio Font and Laura Randall, eds., The Brazilian State: Debate and Agenda (Lexington Books, 2011), with Glauco Arbix, and “’Models’ of Mining Corporate Social Responsibility and the Local Political Cycle:  The Case of Alcoa in Juruti (Pará),” forthcoming in Portuguese with João Paulo Veiga.   His areas of research and teaching specialization are comparative and transnational labor politics, comparative social policy, labor and environmental standards in transnational corporations and global commodity chains, and Latin American political economy. Prof. Martin has taught continuously at Columbia since 1997, and has been part-time assistant professor at The New School's Graduate Program in International Affairs continuously since September 2005.