William K. Carroll’s research interests are in the areas of the political economy of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. A member of the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria since 1981, he established the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies at the University of Victoria in 2008 and served as its director from 2008 to 2012. He is also a founding faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cultural, Political and Social Thought, and served as its director for part of the 1990s. His books include Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice, The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class, Corporate Power in a Globalizing World, Remaking Media (with Bob Hackett), Critical Strategies for Social Research, Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times (with R.S. Ratner) and Organizing Dissent. His current project (corporatemapping.ca) investigates several modalities of corporate power and influence in and around Canada’s carbon-extractive sector.
Sharad Chari is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, the University of California at Berkeley, and Research Associate at WiSER at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is an editor of Antipode: A radical journal of geography, author of Fraternal Capital (Stanford) and he is completing a book called Apartheid Remains.
Scarlet Harris is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Drawing on her involvement in campus activism, previous research focused on Palestinian resistance to occupation, as well as Zionism and anti-Zionism. Since graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 2014, her research interests have shifted to racisms closer to home; in 2017 she commences fieldwork for her PhD, which explores the relationship between Islamophobia, racism, and anti-racism in Scotland and England.
Peter Hudis is Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Oakton Community College. He is author of the books Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades. He is also general editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make available all her work in 17 volumes (three volumes have appeared as of 2017).
Ray Kiely is Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of numerous books, including The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers (2016), The BRICs, US ‘Decline’ and Global Transformations (2015) and Rethinking Imperialism (2010). He is currently working on a book called The Neoliberal Paradox.
Erik Kojola is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Minnesota where he studies labor, class, the environment and political economy. He does research on blue-green relations and union environmental politics. He holds an MA in sociology from American University and a BA in politics from Oberlin College.
Yao-Tai Li is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at University of California, San Diego. He is also an executive council member of Taiwan Working Holiday Youth (T-WHY) in Australia. His main line of research is at the intersection of race/ethnicity, migration, culture, and exploitation.
Paolo Novak is a lecturer in the SOAS Department of Development Studies. His research develops at the intersection of borders, migration and development studies, and is concerned with the geography and spatiality of development; border management and interventions; the figures of the migrant and the refugee.
Atalia Omer is an Associate Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is also a Co-Director of Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular, a research initiative based in the University of Notre Dame and devoted to generating new knowledge and understanding of the ways that religious and secular forces interact in the modern world. Omer earned her PhD from the committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University (November 2008). She is the author of When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice (2013), From Zion to New York City: Refiguring American Jewish Ethics and Identity through Solidarity with Palestinians (under contract), and a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding (2015). Omer has published articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Political Theology, and the Journal of Religious Ethics, among others. Omer was a distinguished fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies (2011).
J.P. Sapinski is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria. His main work draws from the critical political economy and power structure research traditions to map out the constellations of corporate interests involved in climate change politics. He has also researched global networks of corporate power and counter-hegemonic networks of knowledge production and mobilization.
Richard Saull is Senior Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of two books on the Cold War and co-editor of the War and Terror and the American ‘Empire’ after the Cold War (2005) and The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (2015).
