East Lansing, MI 48825-1210
Ph.D., New School for Social Research; Economics
Professor
Professor Zoninsein specializes in international political economy and economics of development. He has published a book entitled Monopoly Capital Theory and articles in Brazil, Germany, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and the United States. He came to James Madison College and Michigan State University from Brown University where he was a visiting professor at the Center for the Comparative Study of Development and the Center of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. He has also taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Catholic University of Chile. His most recent research work addresses the roles of civil society and the nation-state in promoting a bottom-up process of globalization.
Jonas Zoninsein presented the paper "Is Brazil prepared for Multipolarity?" in Salvador, Brazil in July 2009 at a conference sponsored by the Federal University of Bahia.
Professor Jonas Zoninsein will be awarded the MSU Alumni Club of Mid-Michigan Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award, which carries a $2,000 stipend at the MSU Awards Convocation on February 12, 2008. The award recognizes two MSU individuals for quality teaching and substantial continuing involvement in undergraduate education.
Jonas Zoninsein will be presenting a policy proposal on "Racial Equality, Nation Remaking and Development in the Americas" in Washington, DC on February 28, 2006. The goal of the conference is to construct an agenda to advance racial equality in Latin America. With the assistance of the Inter-American Dialogue, the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), and Inter-American Foundation, the conference will bring some 30 prominent political, business, academic and NGO leaders for a wide ranging discussion on what can and should be done to reduce the stark differences in opportunities available to Latin Americans of African and European origin.
Professor Zoninsein presented a paper, "Ethnic Minorities and the Political Economy of Development," at the First International Conference of the Affirmative Action Studies Network (Rio de Janeiro, January 2005).
Professor Zoninsein presented a paper, "Toward Best-practices in the Management of Developmental Affirmative Action in Brazil," at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, May 19, 2005).
