Scott B. Martin, PhD, MIA

Prof. Martin (PhD and MIA, Columbia University) has taught regularly in the International Affairs Master’s programs at Columbia University and The New School for over two decades and is Part-Time Associate Professor at the latter. He joined SP2 in the Fall of 2023 as Part-Time Lecturer. He also has served for many years as a consultant in international development for the Economist Intelligence Unit among other organizations and is Adjunct Lecturer at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. His publications on the comparative and global political economy of labor, development, multinational corporations, global value chains, AI policy, and social welfare policy include co-authorship of the books Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil: Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America (Palgrave 2021) and The Welfare State and Globalization: The Case of North America (El Colegio de Mexico, 2011), and co-author of “Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America: Contested Norms,” in L.E. Armico, M. Fraundorfer and S.D. Rhodes, South American Policy Regionalism: Drivers and Barriers to International Problem Solving, f2025, Routledge. Current research focusses on algorithmic management and labor relations at Amazon.com warehouses in the Americas, and he is co-editor and contributor to the volume, Global Amazon: Work, Labor, and Community in E-Commerce Warehousing and Logistics (forthcoming, Edward Elgar, 2026). His research and reviews have appeared in journals such as Global Labour Journal, Perspectives on Politics, and Labor Studies Journal. He has also served as visiting lecturer at Yale, Princeton, and Sarah Lawrence College and Assistant Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University.