Professional Affiliation

Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Expert Bio

Jeffery M. Paige is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, where he has served as Director of the Center for Research on Social Organization and was a Founder of the Program for the Comparative Study of Social Transformations. His first book, a comparative study of revolution in Vietnam, Peru and Angola, received the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association.  He was a Fulbright Scholar in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, all of which he visited frequently in the revolutionary decade of 1979-1992. He is currently working on a comparative study of the discourse of indigenous revolution in Bolivia and Ecuador based on interviews with indigenous leaders from 2008 to 2011.  

Wilson Center Project

“The Discourse of Indigenous Revolution in the Andes”