Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is a sociologist at Columbia University and a member of its Committee on Global Thought. In Territory, Authority, Rights (Princeton University Press, 2006), she argues that today's foundational transformations take place largely inside national environments and institutions, through denationalizing as well as globalizing dynamics. She is the author of eight books, translated into twenty-one languages, and has taken part in large collective projects such as The Urban Age. She was an Alliance one-month visiting professor at Paris 1 in 2011.