Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow/Associate Professor in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He has published 20 books and some 180 book chapters and refereed articles on a diversity of research topics, including Mormonism, African-American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical medical anthropology, medical pluralism in the US, UK, and Australia, the critical anthropology of climate change, and Australian climate politics. Baer considers himself a scholar-activist who over the years has worked in the labor, environmental, peace, and socialist movements.
Theresa Castor is Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Her research analyzes on language-use during organizational and governance decision-making interactions with a focus on decisions relevant to public health, fresh water, climate, and the environment.
Arnaud Gallois served as Academic Coordinator of the Office of Environmental Programs at the University of Melbourne between 2009 and 2015. He currently is completing his PhD thesis at the University of Melbourne.
Eric Hanley is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas who specializes in economic and political sociology. His research includes studies of Eastern European economic transformations, the rise of entrepreneurship in the former Soviet bloc, and the Tea Party movement in the United States. He also studies globalization, immigration, anti-immigrant prejudice, authoritarianism, and alternatives to fossil fuels. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, and Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Peter R. Jensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama. His research interests revolve around the qualitative study of organizations as they are constituted through communication. Specifically, he focuses on alternative organizing in the nonprofit sector, and he is interested in emergent and local methods of addressing widespread social problems.
Daniel Krier (PhD, University of Kansas) teaches sociological theory at Iowa State University. His research specializations include political economy and critical theory in the continental tradition. Recent articles have appeared in the Journal of Rural Social Sciences, Critical Sociology, Current Perspectives on Social Theory, and Fast Capitalism. Books include Speculative Management: Stock Market Power and Corporate Change (2005: SUNY Press), Capitalism’s Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique (co-edited with Mark Worrell, in preparation: Brill), NASCAR, Sturgis and the New Economy of Spectacle (co-authored with William Swart, in preparation: Brill) and The Social Ontology of Capitalism (co-edited with Mark Worrell, in preparation: Palgrave Macmillan).
Jenna A. Lamphere is a post-doctoral Research and Teaching Associate with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She obtained her PhD in Sociology in 2016 from the University of Tennessee. Most of her research interests fall under the broad category of sustainable development, but she is especially interested in environmental politics, particularly those impacting transitions towards more sustainable communities.
Christian Lotz is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His main research area is post-Kantian European philosophy. His most recent books are The Capitalist Schema. Time, Money, and the Culture of Abstraction (Lexington Books, 2014; pbk 2016), The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning (Bloomsbury, 2015; pbk 2017), Christian Lotz zu Marx: Das Maschinenfragment (Laika Verlag, 2014), and Ding und Verdinglichung. Technik- und Sozialphilosophie nach Heidegger und der kritischen Theorie (co-edited, Fink Verlag, 2012). His current research interests are in European political philosophy, critical theory, and Marxism.
Rahul Mitra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University, whose research focuses on the communicative implications of organizing sustainably, including topics such as environmental organizing, corporate social responsibility, and transformational leadership. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as Environmental Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, Human Relations, Communication Theory, and Journal of Business Ethics.
Alisa Moldavanova is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Wayne State University. Her research areas include organization theory, public and nonprofit management, collaboration and inter-organizational relationships, and ethics and sustainability studies. Her previous publications investigate sustainability in the context of arts and culture organizations, as well as theoretical foundations of sustainable public administration.
Luis Portales holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is currently professor and researcher at the University of Monterrey (UDEM), where he also directs the Center for the Study of Wellbeing and is Co-founder of Social Transformation Lab. He is a member of the National Research System (CONACYT). His research interests are social capital, humanism in organizations, social responsibility and sustainability, development and poverty. He has served as a consultant to the IDB, Universidad Anahuac and different national and international companies, he has collaborated with UNDP and the OAS in the implementation of various research projects and entrepreneurship.
Roger A. Salerno is a Professor of Sociology at Pace University in New York where he teaches courses in gender, intimacy and social change, and social theory. He is a licensed psychoanalyst with a small practice in Manhattan.
Jon Shefner is the founder of the University of Tennessee’s Green Economy Initiative and the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor of Social Sciences. He obtained his PhD in Sociology in 1997 from the University of California, Davis. His work has been largely qualitative, and he has conducted participant/observation fieldwork in Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, New Orleans, and Knoxville. He is the author of one book, co-editor of four books, and author of many scholarly articles and book chapters. He is currently the Head of the Department of Sociology and was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Global Studies.
David Norman Smith is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas who specializes in social psychology and social theory. He has published widely on capitalism, class, authoritarianism, genocide, the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and classical and critical social theory. His publications include articles in The American Psychologist, Antisemitism Studies, Sociological Theory, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, and Sociological Quarterly.
Tony Smith teaches Philosophy and Political Science courses at Iowa State University. He is the author of six books: Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism (Brill 2017), Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account (Brill, 2005; paperback edition: Haymarket Books, 2009), Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the ‘New Economy’ (State University of New York Press, 2000), Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism (SUNY Press, 1993), The Role of Ethics in Social Theory: Essays from a Habermasian Perspective (SUNY Press 1991), and The Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms (SUNY Press, 1990). He is co-editor of Hegel’s Logic and Marx’s Capital: A Reexamination (Brill, 2014), Dialectics for a New Century (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007), Philosophy Against Empire (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Karl Marx. He has also published over 80 articles on Marxism, the philosophy of technology, and social theory.
Mario Vázquez Maguirre holds a PhD (Business) from EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey and an MSc (Economics and Public Policy) at EGAP, Tecnológico de Monterrey. He is currently a Professor and Researcher at Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM). His primary research lines include social entrepreneurship, social enterprises and social development, humanistic management, and sustainability. He has worked in corporations such as BBVA and UPS, and he has served as consultant to SMEs and NGOs.
Isabelle Velásquez Bellido is a PhD in business candidate at The University of Manchester, and holds an MSc in Corporate Communications and Reputation Management, Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. She is a professor and researcher at CENTRUM Graduate Business School. Her research interests are social responsibility and sustainability, development, and poverty.
Duane Windsor is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Management at Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. He is the co-author of The Rules of the Game in the Global Economy: Policy Regimes for International Business (Kluwer Academic Press, 1997, 2nd ed.) and an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (SAGE, 2008, 2nd ed. forthcoming). His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Business & Society, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Public Affairs, Philosophy of Management, and Public Administration Review. He was Editor-in-Chief during 2007–2014 of Business & Society, sponsored by the International Association for Business and Society (IABS) and published by SAGE. His research emphasizes corporate social responsibility, stakeholder theory, and sustainable development issues.
Mark P. Worrell is Professor of social theory and political economy at SUNY Cortland, Associate Editor of Critical Sociology, and is the author of several books on authoritarianism, war, and terror and has published widely in the world of critical social theory.
