David Baronov is Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY (USA). His research centers on the dynamics of global/local linkages as a feature of world-historical capitalism, with interest in the role of local agency as both a response to and a further development of global capitalist structures and processes. His recent publications include The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences (Routledge Press, 2014) and The African Transformation of Western Medicine and the Dynamics of Global Cultural Exchange (Temple University Press, 2008).
Daniel Bin is an Assistant Professor at the University of Brasilia. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of A superestrutura da dívida [The superstructure of debt] (Alameda, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017). His current research focuses on dispossessions of means of subsistence and production and their implications for labor and class relations.
Jessica Braimoh is a Project Coordinator in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University in London, Canada. Her research interests include social relations of race, gender, class, and sexualities; organizations and institutions; qualitative research methods; and feminist theory. Her research examines the various contexts through which institutional processes unfold in people’s lives. She has published in Social Sciences & Medicine and the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.
Derrick R. Brooms is on the Faculty of Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati and serves as a youth worker. He specializes in the sociology of African Americans, particularly Black males, with research and activism that focus on educational equity, race and racism, diversity and inequality, and identity. Dr. Brooms is author of Being Black, Being Male on Campus: Understanding and Confronting Black Male Collegiate Experiences (SUNY, 2017). His work has appeared in The Journal of Negro Education, Journal of Men’s Studies, and Issues in Race & Society: An Interdisciplinary Global Journal.
Dídimo Castillo Fernández is currently a Professor and Researcher in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. He studied sociology at the Universidad de Panamá before doing his Master’s degree at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, México, and his Doctorate of Population Studies at the Colegio de México. In addition, he was coordinator of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) Working Group on United States Studies. Some of his recent publications include: The United States: The Systemic Crisis and the New Condition of Legitimatio (Siglo XXI Editores, México, D.F., 2010 [editted with Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr); ‘Hegemony and the U.S. Working Class’, Latin American Perspectives 38(2): March 2011; and The United States: Beyond the Crisis (CLACSO-Siglo XXI Editores-Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, México, D.F., 2012 [edited with Marco A. Gandásegui, Jr]).
Victoria E. Collins is an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. Collins’ research and teaching interests include state crime, victimology, white collar crime, transnational crime, and violence against women. Victoria has just published State Crime, Women and Gender (Routledge). Some of her recent publications have appeared in journals such as Social Justice, the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, International Criminal Law Review, Critical Criminology, Contemporary Justice Review, and The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.
Yigal Godler (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and a former post-doctoral fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel-Aviv University (Israel). He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva (Israel). Godler has previously published in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Studies, and Journalism Practice.
Naomi Nichols is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. She is the Principal Investigator for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) project titled, Schools, Safety, and the Urban Neighbourhood. Prior to joining the Faculty of Education at McGill, Nichols completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness at York University. The Fellowship focused on knowledge mobilization, research impact, and cross-sectoral responses to youth homelessness. Nichols’ research activities and publications span the areas of youth homelessness; youth justice; alternative education and safe schools; inter-organizational relations in the youth sector; ‘youth at risk’; and community-academic research collaborations. In 2014, the University of Toronto Press published her first book: Youth Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness. In 2016, she released a new co-edited book, published by the Homeless Hub entitled Exploring Effective Systems Responses to Homelessness.
Hakan Ovunc Ongur is Assistant Professor of Political Science at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. He is the author of Consumer Society, Neurotic Culture and Fight Club (Ayrıntı Publishing) and Minorities of Europeanization: The New Others of European Social Identity (Lexington Press). He also has several research articles and book chapters across his research interests.
Tathagatan Ravindran is a Professor at the Departamanto de Estudios Sociales, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia. He works on social movements, indigenous politics and race in Andean Bolivia.
Dawn L. Rothe is Professor and Chair of the School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University. Rothe’s research interests are all centered on the crimes of the powerful, inequality, power and neoliberalism. She is the author or co-author of eight books including, Crimes of Globalization (2014, co-authored with David Friedrichs) and Crimes of the Powerful: An Introductory Text (2016, co-authored with David Kauzlarich) both published by Routledge Press, and over seven dozen peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Brianna Turgeon (MA) is a doctoral student in the Sociology program at Kent State University (Kent, OH, USA), where she also received her MA in 2014. Her areas of interest include mothering, inequalities, and social psychology. Brianna’s current research focuses on the discourse of welfare-to-work program managers in Ohio.
John Welsh is a Researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki. His research focuses on the transformations and governing of academic life, technologies of labour control, and the political aesthetics of advanced capitalism. He works principally within Marxist, Frankfurt, post-Freudian, and post-structuralist traditions of critical social theory. Recently published articles can be found in Critical Policy Studies, Distinktion, and the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.
Jerry Xie (JD, PhD) practiced law in North Carolina (USA) for several years before moving to China to teach in 2006 and currently teaches at a university in northwestern China. He is the editor of the anthology Legal Studies as Cultural Studies: A Reader in (Post)Modern Critical Theory (1995) and the author of the book Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak (Of Shenhe) (2013). His writings have appeared in such journals as the Legal Studies Forum, Law and Critique, Cultural Logic, and Red Orange. Some of his recent work is forthcoming in Reconstruction, International Critical Thought, and Textual Practice.
