Sociology Faculty Directory

Sarah Babb

Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Department

Sociology

RECENT PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

Winner (with Alexander Kentikelenis), 2020 best article award, Global and Transnational Section, American Sociological Association, for 鈥淭he Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.鈥

Co-winner (with Alexander Kentikelenis), 2020 Charles Tilly Article Award, Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association, for 鈥淭he Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.鈥

Co-winner, 2011 best book award, Global and Transnational Section, American Sociological Association, for聽Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations聽(Chicago: 2009).

Selected Publications

Babb, Sarah. 2021. 鈥淭he Privatization of Human Research Ethics: An American Story.鈥 .

Babb, Sarah and Alexander Kentikelenis. 2021. 鈥淢arkets Everywhere: The Washington Consensus and the Sociology of Global Institutional Change.鈥 Annual Review of Sociology 47(1): 521-41. .

Babb, Sarah. 2020. . Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press.

Kentikelenis, Alexander and Sarah Babb. 2019. 鈥淭he Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change.鈥 American Journal of Sociology 124(6): 1720-62.

Babb, Sarah and Nitsan Chorev. 2016. 鈥淚nternational Organizations: Loose and Tight Coupling in the Development Regime.鈥 Studies in Comparative and International Development 51 (1): 81-102.

Babb, Sarah. 2013. 鈥淭he Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor.鈥 Review of International Political Economy 20 (2): 1-30.聽.

Babb, Sarah. 2009.聽Behind the Development Banks: Washington Politics, World Poverty, and the Wealth of Nations. Chicago, IL:聽.

Chorev, Nitsan and Sarah Babb. 2009. 鈥淭he Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Future of International Institutions: The IMF and the WTO in Comparative Perspective.鈥澛Theory and Society聽38: 459-484.聽.

Babb, Sarah. 2007. 鈥淓mbeddedness, Inflation, and International Regimes: The IMF in the Early Postwar Period.鈥澛American Journal of Sociology聽113: 128-64.聽.

Fourcade-Gourinchas, Marion and Sarah Babb. 2002. 鈥淭he Rebirth of the Liberal Creed: Paths to Neoliberalism in Four Countries.鈥澛American Journal of Sociology聽108(3): 533-79.

Babb, Sarah. 2001.聽Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.