Susanne Bregnbæk obtained her Ph.D. in social anthropology from the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen in 2010. Her book, Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China’s Top University Student, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. Her post-doctoral research has focused on conversion to house-church Christianity in China. Recent publications include ‘Between Party, Parents and Peers: The Quandaries of Young Chinese Party Members in Beijing’ in Ravinder Kaur and Ayo Wahlberg (eds.) The Third World Quarterly, Special Issue: Governing Difference: Inequality, Inequity and Identity, and ‘A Public Secret: ‘Education for Quality’ and Suicide among Chinese Elite University Students’ in Learning and Teaching. She has recently started working on a new project about refugee children and their families in Denmark.
Emily Brissette has a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and currently teaches at Bridgewater State University. Her research explores meaning, subjectivity, and the conditions of possibility in US politics and social movements. Her work on the peace and Occupy movements has appeared in Interface, Rethinking Marxism, and (with co-author Mike King) in We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation (AK Press, 2012).
Inés Calzada, PhD in Sociology (University of Salamanca, Spain) and MsC in Methodology for the Social Sciences (London School of Economics), at present is Lecturer of Sociology in the University of Salamanca (Spain). In her research she combines the field of comparative social policy and that of attitudes towards the Welfare State. She has participated in several national and international research projects on different aspects of welfare policies, paying particular attention to the ways in which individuals make sense of social inequalities and state intervention.
Matthew Thomas Clement is an Assistant Professor in the sociology department at Texas State University. His research examines modern development as a socio-ecological force that transforms and responds to changes in the built and natural environments. In recent work, he has integrated data on local land use change from the National Land Cover Database with measures of demographic and economic change from the US census to investigate connections between urbanization and land use intensification across the continental United States at the start of the 21st century.
Bülent Diken teaches social theory at Lancaster University, Department of Sociology. His research fields are political philosophy, social and cultural theory, cinema, terrorism and urbanism.
Waverly Duck is an urban sociologist, Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press 2015; Finalist for the 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award). His research examines the social orders of poor Black neighborhoods, as well as manifestations of race and gender among the upwardly mobile – always with a focus on how meanings are sustained within contexts of inequality (interactional, neighborhood, and organizational) through orderly cooperation. Waverly has also done research on orderly properties of communication in settings troubled by autism, welfare reform and gender. His approach is ethnographic and ethnomethodological – analyzing the social detail through which social orders of inequality are produced and maintained. After receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from Wayne State University in 2005, Professor Duck was a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and then held a post-doctoral appointment at Yale University for three years, before joining the faculty at Pittsburgh in 2010. He served as Associate Director of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project, of which he is currently a Senior Fellow. Professor Duck was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 2013-14, in the Waisman Center, a research clinic dedicated to examining childhood psychopathology. His academic areas of interest are urban sociology, inequality (race, class, gender, health and age), qualitative methods, culture, communication, ethnomethodology and ethnography.
Christina Ergas is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brown University. She previously worked at Willamette University as a Visiting Assistant Professor, and she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on sociology of the environment, social movements, and gender. She generally explores how people attempt to change the processes that produce and reproduce social inequalities and environmental degradation in urban areas. She has published research on ecovillages in Organization and Environment, and she has published work on gender inequity and environmental outcomes in Social Science Research and Journal of World-Systems Research. Her recent work on the correlation between women’s empowerment and CO2 emissions has been highlighted in Nature Climate Change, The Atlantic Wire, Grist, Ms. Magazine blog, and Audubon Magazine.
Anna Gavanas, PhD in social anthropology, is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at Linköping University/ Sweden. Gavanas is currently involved in research on Swedish retirees in Spain as the principal investigator of the project “Swedish retirement migrants to Spain and their migrant workers: interlinked migration chains and their consequences to work and care in Ageing Europe.” Her previous research covers a wide range of areas, including migration, welfare policies, labour market informalization and social exclusion. Additional areas of specialization are “global care chains” in the EU, privatization of elderly care in Sweden as well as U.S. fatherhood politics.
Christi L. Gross earned her doctoral degree in sociology at Kent State University in August 2016. Her current research interests include the sociology of mental health, social psychology, family, postpartum distress, and Welfare-to-Work/TANF programs.
Martin Bak Jørgensen is Associate Professor at CoMID at the Department for Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. He works within the fields of sociology, political sociology and political science. With Óscar García Agustín he has coedited the special issue ‘Civil Society and Immigration: New Ways of Democratic Transformation’ in Migration Letters (2013) and co-edited the book Politics of Dissent (Peter Lang, 2015). He has published articles in journals like Internal Migration Review, Journal of International Migration and Integration and British Journal of International Politics.
Markus Kienscherf is a Junior Professor of Sociology at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies of Freie Universität Berlin. He is author of US Domestic and International Regimes of Security: Pacifying the globe, securing the homeland (2013) and has published articles in Security Dialogue, Topia and Radical Criminology.
Irina Kuznetsova is a Birmingham Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her research expertise includes migration, health, disabilities studies, social policy and accessible cities in the post-Soviet sphere. She has led and participated in various applied and academic studies founded by regional bodies in Russia and also the European Commission, Open Society Institute, MacArthur Foundation, Russian Foundation for Humanities amongst others. Previously she worked at Kazan Federal University in Russia.
Marie des Neiges Léonard’s research areas include anti-globalization protests and social movements, and also racial politics in Europe. She has authored several publications in these areas (Census and Racial Categorization in France: Invisible Categories and Color-blind politics. Humanity and Society, Vol. 38(1): 67-88; Citizenship, Identity and European Integration: Implications for an expanded Europe, edited by Michael Meimeth, John Robertson, Susanne Talmon. Frankfurt: NOMOS Press, 2008; The Obama Presidency. A Preliminary Assessment, edited by Robert P. Watson, Jack Covarrubias, Tom Lansford and Douglas M. Brattebo. SUNY Press: New York, 2012; The Obama Presidency at Midpoint, edited by Douglas M. Brattebo, Robert P. Watson, and Tom Lansford, forthcoming; International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity, edited by Dudley Poston. Springer Press, 2015). Current research involves both theoretical and empirical research on the regulation of dissent through surveillance of protesters at anti-globalization demonstrations; and also research on the after-math of the 2005 French riots in the suburbs of Paris and the pervasiveness of racial hegemony in France. Marie des Neiges Léonard holds a M.S. in Cultural Anthropology from the University Lumiere Lyon 2, in France, and a PhD in Sociology from Texas A&M University, College Station.
Dimitrios Parsanoglou is a research fellow at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece. His research interests include the history and sociology of immigration to Greece; his research particularly focuses on employment and urban space. He has worked with several institutions and NGOs in European and national projects about migration, gender and employment issues.
Jeffrey S. Rothstein is Associate Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His research focuses on the changing nature of work in the global economy and the impact of globalization on labor. He is the author of When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-unionization and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry (2016) from Rutgers University Press. He has published articles in Social Forces, Competition & Change, Research in the Sociology of Work, and New Labor Forum, and has a chapter in the edited volume Are Bad Jobs Inevitable?
John Round is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. His overarching research interest is the exploration of the socio-economic pathways that have developed in Russia since the Soviet Union’s collapse, with particular attention paid to the nature of informal economic practice/governance and how this impacts upon everyday life, the workplace, social policy, state/society relations, corruption and migration. Within this he is interested in the relationships between the state and economy and the failure of economic diversification and the problematic nature of post-Soviet social policy.
Carl-Ulrik Schierup is director of the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), ISV, Linköping University, Sweden. He has since 1992 acted as the director of several major research programmes and research centres on migration and ethnic relations in Scandinavia. He has published broadly on issues of migration and labour, ethnic relations, racism, multiculturalism and nationalism. Among his latest works is the the collected volume Migration, Precarity and Global Governance. Challenges and Opportunities for Labour, published by Oxford University Press in 2015 (co-edited with Ronaldo Munck, Branka Likic-Brboric and Anders Neergaard).
Nazlı Şenses obtained her PhD in Political Science from the Bilkent University (Turkey) in 2012. Currently, she is working as an assistant professor at Başkent University (Ankara) in the Department of Political Science and International Relations. She teaches undergraduate courses on international migration, political ideologies and introduction to politics. Her research interests include politics of international migration, irregular migration, migrant workers, and civil society activism in the field of migration.
Tiffany Taylor is an associate professor of sociology at Kent State University. In her research, she examines a number of topics related to inequality and work. Her recent research focuses on policy implementation of programs for poor mothers in North Carolina and Ohio.
Jackuelyn K. Towne-Roese earned her BA and MA in sociology at Kent State University. Her research examines Welfare-to-Work/TANF programs, bureaucracy and self-sufficiency in Ohio.
Nicos Trimikliniotis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Social sciences at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and Senior Expert heading the Cyprus team on fundamental rights for the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRANET). He is a practicing Barrister and has conducted research on ethnic conflict and reconciliation, public law and state theory, class, integration, citizenship, migration, racism, free movement of workers, discrimination, EU and labor law.
Vassilis Tsianos is a research fellow at the University of Kiel, Germany, where he teaches theoretical sociology and migration studies. His work examines social theory, citizenship racism, migration, borders, urban space, commons and precarity.
