After receiving a BS in Business Economics at SUNY Oneonta, Florence Molk moved on to Binghamton University where she earned MA degrees in European labor and women’s history and sociology. She continues her academic career at Binghamton University where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in historical sociology. Her primary research focuses on policing as a salient dimension of power. Accordingly, the topic of her dissertation concentrates on divulging the concrete essence of the so-called transnational policing in a globalized world. She teaches introduction to Global Studies – Political Economy. She is also an associate of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, where she is involved with a research working group currently finishing a study of the STCWE (structural trends of the capitalist world-economy). The group is seeking to determine worldwide trends in the overall level of profit in five leading industries across centuries.
