He returned to the United States and received a bachelor's degree in sociology and economics from Rutgers University in 1992.
His doctoral advisor was Paul Attewell, and his thesis title was Comparative Analysis of European and American Working Class Attainments.
[2] He came to public attention in 2006, when the City University of New York refused to renew his contract on the grounds of "lack of collegiality".
[1] In 2007, Asimakopoulos co-founded the Transformative Studies Institute (TSI) together with Ali Shehzad Zaidi.
There is a TSI YouTube channel which hosts the video series "Crushing Capitalism with Dr.