Wallerstein, Immanuel (Maurice) (1930– )

US sociologist. He wrote many texts dealing with the economy and political systems of the world, including the two-volume The Modern World-System (1974, 1980), The Politics of the World Economy (1984), and Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991). He studied at Columbia University and Oxford University, England, gaining his PhD at the former in 1959. He taught at Columbia (1958–71), McGill University in Montréal, Canada (1971–76), and State University of New York, Binghamton (from 1976), where he was distinguished professor of sociology and director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. Wallerstein was born in New York City.