 Jeffrey S. Juris is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. His research and teaching interests include globalization, social movements, new media, violence, Spain, and Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2004, and has also served as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the Institute for Social Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Juris is a co-author of Global Democracy and the World Social Forums. His latest book, Networking Futures: the Movements against Corporate Globalization, explores the cultural logic and politics of transnational networking among anti-corporate globalization activists in Barcelona, including their participation in mass direct actions and transnational networks such as Peoples Global Action and the World Social Forum. Articles on this topic and the relationship between new media and grassroots social movements have also appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Ethnography, Critique of Anthropology, Mobilization, the Journal of Youth Studies, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
Most recently, Juris has conducted fieldwork at the United States Social Forum, and is carrying out new ethnographic research on grassroots media activism and autonomy in Mexico City. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Resistance Studies Magazine and is a member of several activist research networks such as Sociologists without Borders and the North America Chapter of the Network Institute on Global Democratization. Finally, he has also taken part in numerous direct action oriented groups and networks, including the Movement for Global Resistance in Barcelona.
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