Dr. Roberto J. Ortiz

Main Courses:

  • Classical Sociological Theory (SOC 356)
  • Modern Sociological Theory (SOC 357)
  • Environmental Sociology (SOC 410)
  • Sociology of Globalization (SOC 430)

Research Interests:

Global Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Political Economy, Global Inequality, Historical Sociology, Social Theory, Latin American Studies

Education:

  • PhD., Sociology, Binghamton University State University of New York, 2020
  • M.A. Sociology, Binghamton University State University of New York, 2011
  • B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Education and History, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, 2008

Selected publications:

  • Ortiz, Roberto J. "Collapse and Transformation? Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Energy Crisis of Showcase Peripheries in World-Ecological Perspective, Journal of World-Systems Research, 31 no. 1 (2025), 136165.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  Spatial Competition and Unevenness in Global Capitalism: Labor, Nature, and the Seesaw of Capital, Critical Sociology 51, no. 2 (2025), 283-300.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  Weathering the Crisis: Oil, Financialization, and Socio-Ecological Turbulence since the 1970s, Journal of World-Systems Research 29, no. 2 (2023), 431456.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  Financialization, Climate Change, and the Future of the Capitalist World-Ecology: On Kim Stanley Robinsons New York 2140, Soundings 103, no. 2 (2020), 264285.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  Oil-Fueled Accumulation in Late Capitalism: Energy, Uneven Development and Climate Crisis, Critical Historical Studies 7, no. 2 (2020), 205240.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  La ecolog穩a pol穩tica y los l穩mites de la acumulaci籀n interminable: petr籀leo, desarrollo desigual y calentamiento global. Laberinto (Spain) no. 47 (2016), 5170.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  Before the Collapse: Latin America and the USSR in the Developmentalist Belle poque. In World Regions, Migrations and Identities, eds. H.H. Nolte, M. Boataca and A. Komlosy, 5170 (2016). Gleichen: Muster-Schmidt Verlag.
  • Ortiz, Roberto J.  Agro-Industrialization, Petrodollar Illusions and the Transformation of the Capitalist World Economy in the 1970s: The Latin American Experience. Critical Sociology 42, no. 45 (2016), 599621.