Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen teaches sociology and is the co-chair to the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Throughout her career, her writing has focused on globalization, immigration, global cities and new networked technologies. Her three major books, The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988), The Global City (1991) and Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2006) have each sought to demolish a key established “truth.”

As of December 2021