Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY (USA). His research centers on the dynamics of global/local linkages as a feature of world-historical capitalism, with particular interest in the role of local agency as both a response to and a further development of global capitalist structures and processes. His recent publications include The Dialectics of Inquiry across the Historical Social Sciences (Routledge Press, 2014) and The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange (Temple University Press, 2008).