Transformative Studies Institute

The Transformative Studies Institute (TSI) "fosters interdisciplinary research that will bridge multidisciplinary theory with activism in order to encourage community involvement that will attempt to alleviate social problems. As part of the mission, scholars, activists, and other concerned individuals in fields such as social sciences, humanities, and law will be invited to conduct research and become involved in like-minded various grass roots organizations. The Institute is concerned with issues of social justice and related activism, and its aim is to provide a working model of theory in action, through shared research, governance, and operation of the center. As such, the institute may provide a working laboratory for evolutionary socioeconomic forms of organization."

They publish the journal, Theory in Action.

Directors
Accessed December 2008:


 * John Asimakopoulos - President & Executive Director
 * Sviatoslav Voloshin - Vice President & Director of Development
 * Ali Shehzad Zaidi - Secretary & Director of Publications
 * Elsa Karen Marquez-Aponte - Treasurer
 * Vanny Chang - Director of Business Development
 * Deric Shannon - Board Member & Director Transformative Radio

Former Board Members

 * Anthony J. Nocella II

Advisory Board
Accessed December 2008:


 * Stanley Aronowitz, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
 * Steve Best, University of Texas, El Paso
 * Carl Boggs, National University, Los Angeles
 * Marc Bousquet, Santa Clara University
 * Ward Churchill
 * Victoria Fontan, University of Peace, Costa Rica
 * Henry Giroux, McMaster University, CA
 * Dave Hill (IEPS), University of Northamton, UK
 * Richard Kahn, University of North Dakota
 * Caroline Kaltefleiter, State University of New York College at Cortland
 * Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles
 * Michael Parenti, Independent Progressive Politics network, New Jersey
 * Emma Perez, University of Colorado at Boulder

Contact

 * Web: http://transformativestudies.org