Ian Robinson is a Lecturer IV in the Department of Sociology and the Social Science program of the Residential College at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is Assistant Research Scientist and Co-Director of the Labor and Global Change Program at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. He is also the faculty sponsor and instructor of the Sociology Department’s Project Community, faculty sponsor of the Residential College’s Spanish Language Internship Program (SLIP), and a developer of (and advisor for) the UM’s Global Transformations minor.

 Ian teaches and writes about experiential learning and teaching for social change, unions and labor movements, international economic policy, the consequences of the neoliberal model of national and global economic regulation, and the alternatives to that model. Remarkably, all of this connects! A list of his publications may be found at http://www-personal.umich.edu/ ~eian/. Ian received his B.A. Honors in Political Studies from Queen’s University in Canada, his M.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.