[2] He then moved to Trinidad & Tobago, where he enrolled in the post-graduate diploma program at the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine.
in socio-cultural anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he also continued and developed interests in world-systems analysis, taking courses in other departments with Immanuel Wallerstein, Giovanni Arrighi, and Anthony King.
In 2005 he accepted an offer for a second tenure-track position, in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, where he received tenure and have been promoted to associate professor.
Maximilian is the author of Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs: (Post)Colonial Representations of Aboriginality in Trinidad and Tobago (2005), and Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (2012).
His articles on the Zero Anthropology, numbering more than 1,000, have covered topics pertaining to Canada, the U.S., Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Iran, Iraq, Greece, Gaza, Libya, and Afghanistan.