Undergraduate courses:
Caribbean Inequalities
Class, Status, Power
Globalization and Fashion
Globalization and Social Movements
Qualitative and Comparative Historical
Methods
Global Cities
Global Perspectives on Racism and Sexism
Sexuality and Social Change
Urban Community
Graduate courses:
Gender and Sexuality
Globalism and the Post-Colonial Condition
Seminar in Advance Qualitative Methods
Seminar in Urbanization
Grants and Awards:
2010
“Alternative Food Production and
Distribution in South Florida: A Political Economic
Analysis.” Faculty Research Mentoring Program, Division
of Research, Florida Atlantic University (mentee: Patricia
Widener, mentor: Marina Karides)
2010
“Sappho’s Legacy? Women’s Enterprises in
Lesvos, Greece.” Scholarly and Creative
Accomplishments Fellowship, College of Arts and
Letters, Florida Atlantic University (one semester release
from teaching)
2009
“Women in Local Economies in Lesvos, Greece. Morrow
Fund Research Grant. Department of Sociology.” Florida
Atlantic University (1200$)
2008
“A New Movement or An Old Tradition: Cooperatives and
Globalization in Greece.” Fulbright Research
Scholar (Greece)
Selected Publications:
2010
Marina Karides, Walda Katz-Fishman, Jerome Scott,
Alice Walker, and Rose Brewer
(editors).
The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a
Movement. Changemaker Publications.
2010
Marina Karides. "The Rise of Micro-enterprise
Development: A Grounded Theory in Caribbean Context",
Journal of World System Research 17:2:192-216.
2010
Marina Karides. "What's Going On? The USSF,
Grassroots Activism, and Situated Knowledge"
Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements and Contemporary
Radical Currents in the United States. AK Press, 2010.
2009
Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker,
Christopher Chase Dunn, Dorval Brunelle, Donnatella Della Porta,
Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Jay
Smith, Rolando Vasquez. “Globalization and the Emergence of
the World Social Forums.” Chapter in
Globalization: The Greatest Hits, A Global Studies
Reader, edited by Manfred B. Steger Paradigm Publishers:
Boulder, CO. (Chapter reprinted from
The World Social Forums and Challenges for Global
Democracy)
2008
Judith Blau and Marina Karides (editors).
The World and US Forums: Another World is Possible and
Necessary. Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill Publishers.
Reprinted, Judith
Blau and Marina Karides (editors).
The World and US
Forums: Another
World is Possible and Necessary. Lexington Books,
2009.
2008
Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker,
Christopher Chase Dunn, Dorval Brunelle, Donnatella Della Porta,
Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Jay
Smith, Rolando Vasquez.
The World Social Forums and the Challenges for Global
Democracy. Paradigm Publishers: Boulder, CO.
2008
Marina Karides and Thomas Ponniah. “The
Achievements of WSF VII.”
Societies Without Borders 3:1:20-34.
Reprinted in Judith
Blau and Marina Karides’
The World and US
Forums:
Another World
is Possible and Necessary. Leiden, Boston, Tokyo: Brill
Publishers,
2008.
2008
“'We are the Ones We have been Waiting For':
The U.S. Social Forum in Context." by Jackie Smith, Jeffrey S.
Juris, and the Social Forum Research Collective (collective
member)
Mobilization 13:4: 373-394.
2008
Marina Karides. “Human Rights and the
WSF.” Chapter in
The Leading Rogue State:
The US and Human Rights? edited by Judith Blau, Cathy
Zimmer, and David Brunsma. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
