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Teaching and Research Interests: 
Labor and Social Movements; Political Economy; Globalization; Community Engaged Research; Racial Capitalism; Border Studies; Urban and Regional Development; World-Systems Analysis; Social Theory; Racialized Labor; Immigration; Comparative-Historical Sociology.

Courses:
Ethnic Studies 5 - Race and Ethnicity in America

Ethnic Studies 15 - Native People of North America

Sociology 1 - Introduction to Sociology

Ciccantell, Paul S., 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 S. 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.

Terrence K. Hopkins Student Paper Award. 2020. Political Economy of the World-System.