Rachel Harvey

Focus areas: Globalization, economic sociology, markets, culture, philosophy of science, global studies, gold market, price benchmarks, social movements, community, history, historical sociology

Rachel Harvey is an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs. Her research has focused on a variety of phenomena ranging from a rural, reactionary social movement to the global foreign exchange market. In these explorations she has tried to understand how the historical, socio-cultural specificity of each subject, and its complexity, impact places and people across the world. In grappling with these nuances, she has developed a framework for approaching the research and theorization of global dynamics that retains the centrality of their spatio-temporal specificity (“the particular”) even if they have significant scope and scale (Money, Markets and Struggles Against the State, forthcoming, Indiana University Press). Thus, global processes are never universal since they are permanently marked by their origins. An outcome of this research trajectory, and her multi-disciplinary approach, is her interest in the consequences of the fundamental condition of “particularity” for scientific practice and theorization. Rachel is a Framing the Global Fellow, Indiana University.

Education

• PhD, University of Chicago
• MA, University of Chicago
• BA, University of California, Santa Cruz

Honors and Awards

• Markovitz Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Chicago
• Overseas Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Chicago
• University of Chicago Century Scholarship
• Honors in Economics, University of California Santa Cruz
• Honors in Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
• Stevenson College Honors for General Academic Excellence, University of California Santa Cruz