Bret Benjamin joined the University at Albany faculty in 2000. He is the author of several books about computers and pedagogy including Connections: A Guide to Online Writing. His most recent work is in transnational cultural studies, studying in particular various aspects of globalization and alter-globalization social movements. His current book project, Invested Interests: Culture, Capital and the World Bank, develops a cultural critique of the World Bank. The project argues that the Bank must be understood as a cultural institution-an institution that not only affects global cultures, but also one that, given its role in the post-war mapping and remapping of the globe, has been intimately bound up in the construction of "culture" as a theoretical category, and "cultural studies" as an academic discipline. Contrary to assessments of the Bank that figure the institution as a metonymic stand-in for "globalization," this book reads the Bank as a protean institution that has undergone a series of transformations during its sixty-year history, in which we can see the World Bank maneuvering to contain resistance and manage crises.