Jeffrey Sommers

Lecturer: Jeffrey Sommers
Degree: PhD in world history (economic history concentration)
Course(s): Economic History and international relations
Email: jeffrey.sommers@fulbrightmail.org

Jeffrey Sommers is visiting lecturer at SSE Riga. He is the co-director of the Silk Roads Project at SSE Riga, and creator and curator of the Andre Gunder Frank Memorial Library at the school. His research centers on economic history, global studies, global governance, and hegemonic transitions. Embedded within this work is research on European Studies, with emphasis on labor migration in Europe within the framework of a wider political economy and regulatory regimes. Recent empirical studies have been on Baltic labor migration from new EU Member States in the context of European integration. Publications are both solo and collaborative interdisciplinary monographs, along with international peer-reviewed journal articles, published and in progress. Interdisciplinary methodological research consists of employing qualitative approaches (interviews and archival work) while making use of extant quantitative data sets. Dr. Sommers divides is primarily based in the US, but has several years experience in the Baltics on Fulbright and other grants.