Jaime Amparo Alves is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York. He is also an affiliate researcher at Centro de Estudios Afrodiasporicos (Universidad ICESI) and a member of Uneafro, a black grassroots organization in São Paulo, Brazil.
David Camfield is Associate Professor of Labour Studies and Sociology at the University of Manitoba. His main areas of research are the contemporary working-class movement in Canada and social theory. He is the author of Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement (Fernwood, 2011). He is a member of the Editor’s Advisory Committee of Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies and of the Advisory Board of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research.
Sean Carswell is an Assistant Professor of writing and literature at California State University, Channel Islands. He is the author of five books, most recently the novel Madhouse Fog (Manic D Press, 2013). He is also the co-founder of the DIY punk zine Razorcake and the independent publisher Gorsky Press.
Corey Dolgon is the inaugural Director of Stonehill College’s Office of Community-Based Learning and a Professor of Sociology. He has published three books: Social Problems: A Service-Learning Approach; an anthology entitled Pioneers of Public Sociology; and a monograph published by NYU Press, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, which won book-of-the-year awards from both the ASA’s Marxist section and the Association for Humanist Sociology. Currently, he’s writing two books: Kill It to Save it: How America is Killing Itself, and an anthology, The Cambridge University Press Handbook on Service Learning and Community Engagement. He also performs a singing lecture on folksongs and the labor movement, and often cooks for his wife and two daughters. None of this in that order.
Shaul A. Duke has recently received his PhD from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University. His dissertation project dealt with the varied forms in which trade unions affect social stratification and inequality, with the historical case study of Mandatory Palestine. His research interests include: macro sociological theory, political sociology, race/ethnicity/gender in the labor market, colonialism and domination, and historical/comparative methods.
Chris Hesketh is a Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at Oxford Brookes University. He has an inter-disciplinary research agenda that combines international political economy, the historical sociology of international relations, political geography, political theory and Latin American studies.
Jeffrey L. Kidder is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. He is an ethnographer interested in how people construct and maintain meaning in everyday life. He is the author of Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City (Cornell University Press, 2011), and his recent work has also been published in City & Community, Sociology of Sport Journal, Symbolic Interaction, and Qualitative Sociology.
Jan Lust is a doctoral student in Development Studies at Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. His doctoral thesis is titled: ‘A class analysis of capitalist development in Peru and the struggle for social transformation: 1980–2015’. His research interests are concentrated on Marxist theory, political economy of development, capitalist development in Latin America, extractive capital, social movements and guerrilla struggle. In 2013 his first book was published in Spanish by RBA libros (Barcelona): Lucha revolucionaria. Perú, 1958–1967. This book is the result of more than a decade of research and intends to deepen, increase and complete existing knowledge on the revolutionary struggle in Peru in the 1960s.
Chris Zepeda-Millán is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Government from Cornell University. His research interests include race, immigration, and social movements.
