Daniel Bin is a professor of public policy at the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and holds a doctorate in sociology from the same University, earned during a period as a visiting scholar at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2014 he is a visiting fellow in the Sociology Department at Yale University. His work focuses on financialization and economic policies and their implications for labor, class relations and economic democracy. He is presently conducting research on primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession.
Sergio A. Cabrera is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research explores neoliberal consumer-citizenship and the moral order of markets.
Graham Cassano is an associate of sociology at Oakland University. His publications include studies of New Deal cinema and class formation, the social theory of Thorstein Veblen, and Marxian political economy.
Chamsy el-Ojeili is a senior lecturer in sociology at the Victoria University of Wellington, teaching classical and contemporary social theory and political sociology. He is co-author (with Patrick Hayden) of Critical Theories of Globalization (Palgrave, 2006); co-editor (with Patrick Hayden) of Globalization and Utopia: Critical Essays (Palgrave, 2009); and author of Politics, Social Theory, Utopia and the World-System (Palgrave, 2012).
Andrea Grant-Friedman is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Western Michigan University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political sociology, economic sociology, and the history of social thought, with a particular focus on modern Russia.
Ilkka Kauppinen is a university lecturer of sociology in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is also a lecturer at the Institute of Higher Education Fellow at the University of Georgia. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Jyväskylä. His main research interests are social theory, globalization, and transnational higher education.
Robert Perrucci is a professor of sociology at Purdue University. His publications are concerned with the impact of the global economy on workers, communities, and structures of change. His most recent books with Carolyn Cummings Perrucci are an edited collection of readings entitled The Transformation of Work in the New Economy (Oxford, 2007) and America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).
Mangala Subramaniam is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Purdue University. Her primary areas of interest are gender, social movements, and globalization. She has authored/co-authored articles in journals such as Feminist Criminology, Critical Sociology, Mobilization and Gender and Society. Her current research project focuses on the politics of dissemination of information about HIV/AIDS in India. It examines issues of gender and sexuality as power and control which are central to the multi-institutional discourse in dissemination of information related to HIV/AIDS.
David Whitlock received his MS in sociology from Purdue University in 2011. He now works in the not-for-profit sector.
Dana M. Williams is an assistant professor at California State University at Chico. Williams teaches classes and conducts research on social movements, race and ethnic inequality, and social theory, and has co-authored (with Jeff Shantz) Anarchy and Society: Reflections on Anarchist-Sociology (2013, Brill).
Christine L. Williams is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes on gender, race, and class inequality in the workplace. Her most recent book, Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality, exposes how these forms of inequality are embedded within consumer culture through an examination of low-wage retail work.
