Roy C. Barnes is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at the University of Michigan-Flint where he also serves as the Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research interests include interlocking corporate directors, social network analyses and political sociology. Dr. Barnes recently served as the Guest editor of a Special Issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, “Interlocking corporate directors in comparative perspective,” (2012) and is an active member of the Politics and Interlocking Directorates Research Community.
Julian Eagles is an independent researcher. He holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics. His PhD thesis was on the origins, concepts and place of Situationist theory in modern European thought. He has previously had articles published in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory and Fast Capitalism.
Rodolfo Elbert is Conicet post-doctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and coordinates the Class Analysis Research Program at the same institute. He finished his Ph.D. at the Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin (Madison, USA). His research focuses on labor movements, class structure and informality in Latin America. At the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he teaches labor studies and research methods. His publications appeared in the Journal of Workplace Rights, Progressive Planning Magazine and Global Dialogue (Newsletter for the International Sociological Association) among other outlets. He is co-chair of the Labour Studies and Class Relations section of the Latin American Studies Association.
Jan Erk teaches comparative politics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is the author of Explaining Federalism: State Society and Congruence in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany and Switzerland (London 2007, paperback 2010) and the co-editor of New Directions in Federalism Studies (London 2009) and The Paradox of Federalism (London 2010, paperback 2012). His work has appeared in the journals Comparative Politics, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Current History, Political Quarterly, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Journal of Common Market Studies, Nations and Nationalism, West European Politics, Regional and Federal Studies, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Democracy, Public Administration, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics among others. Dr. Erk is the co-editor of the journal Regional and Federal Studies.
Steven Loyal teaches sociology at University College Dublin. His areas of interest are sociological theory, migration, historical sociology, and ethno-racial diversity.
Cynthia Mackenzie is a Postdoctoral fellow at Victoria University, Melbourne. She is interested in questions regarding the politics of knowledge and youth approaches to knowledge construction.
Doug Meyer is an instructor at The University of Virginia in the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and a graduate of the Sociology PhD program of The Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY). His work has been published in Gender & Society, Sociology, Critical Criminology, and Race, Gender & Class. His research interests include intersectionality theory, sociological approaches to violence, and feminist and queer studies. He has a forthcoming book project, titled Violence Against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination, under contract with Rutgers University Press.
Charles Mphande is a Senior Lecturer in International & Community Development at Victoria University, Melbourne Australia, and an academic editor of the Asian ESP Journal. He is Chair of the Community Leaders and Engagement Committee of the Pan-African Australasian Diaspora Network (PAADN) and Councilor, and recipient of the Victorian African Communities Award (VACA) for excellence in work towards education of African-Australians and Africa.
Clovis Mwamba is a MuLuban man, from the Democratic Republic of Congo who arrived to Melbourne in 2007 as a political refugee. He is a qualified psychologist, with a specialization in working with troubled children; a published author and poet; and an historian of the oral histories of the Luba people.
Kiril Sharapov is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Bedfordshire and an affiliate researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies, Central European University (Hungary). He received his PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow and an MA in Human Rights from the Central European University. In 2013-2014, Kiril led a research project investigating public understanding of human trafficking in three European countries. This research was funded by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship awarded by the European Commission (FP7-PEOPLE-IEF / PIEF-GA-2011-298401).
Harald Strauß is a sociologist who teaches at several Universities of Applied Sciences in Baden-Wuerttemberg/Germany. His main topics are the Critique of Political Economy and Sustainable Development studies. In 2013 he presented a theoretical approach towards specific problems in Marx’s theory, combining semiotics and economical value theory: “Signifikationen der Arbeit. Die Geltung des Differenzianten ‘Wert’” (Significations of labour. The validity of the differentiator ‘value’). His latest book (2016) Der bearbeitete Planet: Systematik, Ethik und Ökonomik der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung (The wrought planet: Systematics, ethics and economics of sustainable development) offers a materialistic critique of the mainstream theories that rule the discourse of sustainability.
