Dr. Phillip Hough

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Background

Phillip A. Hough is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. His main research interests are in global political economy, comparative and historical sociology, labor and agrarian movements, public sociology, and Latin American development. He has published research on globalization, state and paramilitary violence, class and state formation, and the labor movement using qualitative as well as comparative-historical methods of analysis. His current research projects examine the intersection of political violence and struggles for labor and land rights in Colombia’s coffee, bananas, and coca-producing regions over the long durée.

Education:

Ph.D. Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2007.

M.A. Sociology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2001.

B.S. Sociology and Anthropology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1998.

Undergraduate Courses:

Labor and Globalization; Sociological Theory; Drugs and Society

Graduate Courses:

Class, Power and Ideology in Comparative-Historical Perspective; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Public Sociology; Labor and Globalization

Selected Publications:

Hough, Phillip A., 2011. "Hegemonic Projects and the Social Reproduction of the Peasantry: Examining the National Federation of Coffee Growers and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in World Historical Perspective" Review: The Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center (Forthcoming, Vol. XXXIII)

Hough, Phillip A., 2011. "Guerrilla Insurgency as Organized Crime: Explaining the So-Called ‘Political Involution’ of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia," Politics and Society (Vol. 39:3, September, pp. 379-414)

Hough, Phillip A., 2011. "Disarticulations and Commodity Chains: Cattle, Coca and Capital Accumulation along Colombia’s Agricultural Frontier," Environment and Planning A, Theme Issue: Losing our Chains: Rethinking Commodities through Disarticulations, Guest Editors: Jennifer Bair, Marion Werner (Vol. 43:5, pp. 1016-1034)

Hough, Phillip A., 2010. "Global Commodity Chains and the Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Labor Control: Lessons from Colombia’s Coffee and Banana Industries." The Journal of World Systems Research (Vol. XVI, No. 2, pp. 123-161)

Hough, Phillip A., 2007. "Global Perspectives on the United States: Colombia," chapter in Global Perspectives on the United States: A Nation by Nation Survey, David Levinson and Karen Christensen eds. (Berkshire Publishing, Barrington, MA; pp. 125-130)