Dr. Spencer Potiker
Title: Instructor - Ethnic Studies
Department: Instructional Services, Arts & Sciences
Office: Cedar 106
Unit: CC
Phone: 209-588-5093
Email: potikers@yosemite.edu
Biography
Education
PhD Global Studies - UC Irvine
MA Sociology - UC Irvine
Courses:
Ethnic Studies 5 - Race and Ethnicity in America
Book Project:
Bordering the Trade War: Labor, Migration, and Supply Chain Urbanism in San Diego-Tijuana
Potiker, Spencer Louis. 2023. "Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government." Critical Sociology.
Potiker, Spencer Louis, Dana Williams, and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2022. "Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces." Journal of World-Systems Research.
Chua, Charmaine, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2021. "Amazon's Investment in Israel Reveal Comlicity in Settlements and Military Operations." The Nation.
Alimahomed-Wilson Jake and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2017. "The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure." Journal of Labor and Society.
Terrence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award. 2020. Political Economy of the World-System.
BA Sociology and Economics - CSU Long Beach
Teaching and Research Interests:
Political Economy; Globalization; Racial Capitalism; Labor and Social Movements; Border Studies; Urban and Regional Studies; World-Systems Analysis; Social Theory; Racialized Labor; Immigration; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Community Engaged Research.
Teaching and Research Interests:
Political Economy; Globalization; Racial Capitalism; Labor and Social Movements; Border Studies; Urban and Regional Studies; World-Systems Analysis; Social Theory; Racialized Labor; Immigration; Comparative-Historical Sociology; Community Engaged Research.
Courses:
Ethnic Studies 5 - Race and Ethnicity in America
Ethnic Studies 15 - Native People of North America
Sociology 1 - Introduction to Sociology
Book Project:
Bordering the Trade War: Labor, Migration, and Supply Chain Urbanism in San Diego-Tijuana
Selected Publications:
Ciccantell, Paul, Spencer Louis Potiker, David A. Smith, Elizabeth Sowers, and Luc McKenzie. 2025. "From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains." Critical Sociology.
Potiker, Spencer Louis, David A. Smith, Paul Ciccantell, Elizabeth Sower, and Luc McKenzie. 2024. "Labor organizing at chokepoints along Amazon's supply chain: Locating geo-strategic nodes." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Potiker, Spencer Louis. 2023. "Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government." Critical Sociology.
Potiker, Spencer Louis, Dana Williams, and Jake Alimahomed-Wilson. 2022. "Anarchist and Anarchistic Anti-Systemic Movements in World-Systems Perspective: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Non-State Spaces." Journal of World-Systems Research.
Chua, Charmaine, Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2021. "Amazon's Investment in Israel Reveal Comlicity in Settlements and Military Operations." The Nation.
Potiker, Spencer Louis. 2019. "Obstacles to Insurrection: Militarised Border Crossings Hindering the Rojava Liberation Struggle." Anarchist Studies.
Alimahomed-Wilson Jake and Spencer Louis Potiker. 2017. "The Logistics of Occupation: Israel's Colonial Suppression of Palestine's Goods Movement Infrastructure." Journal of Labor and Society.
Selected Honors and Awards:
Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award. 2024. Critical Sociology.
Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award. 2024. Critical Sociology.
Terrence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award. 2020. Political Economy of the World-System.