Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He studies labor, social movements, science and technology, education, social theory and cultural studies and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center. He is author or editor of 25 books including: The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Worker’s Movement (2014); Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals (2012); Against Schooling: For an Education that Matters (2008); Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future (2006); Just Around Corner (2005); How Class Works (2003); The Last Good Job in America (2001); The Knowledge Factory (2000); The Jobless Future (1994, with William DiFazio); and False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness (1973, 1992).
Timothy J. Berard is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University, Ohio. His research addresses relations between identities and inequalities in law, crime, deviance, social problems, social control and subcultures. He is a recipient of the Shils-Coleman prize in sociological theory from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, and a past Chair of the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Jordan Fairbairn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on gender, violence, media, feminism and social change, with a particular interest in the intersections of digital media and violence against women. Jordan is a co-investigator with the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (CDHPIVP) and a member of the expert advisory panel of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA).
Ishay Landa is Associate Professor of History at the Israeli Open University. He has published on Nietzscheanism, Marxism, political theory and popular culture. His recent publications include Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt Against the Last Humans, 1848-1945 (Routledge, 2018), The Apprentice’s Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism (Brill, 2009), and The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture (Lexington, 2007), as well as articles published in various journals such as Journal of Political Ideologies, Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, Historical Materialism, or New Left Review.
James K. Meeker is a PhD candidate in sociology at Kent State University, Ohio. His substantive interests include hip-hop, inequalities, crime and deviance, and sociological theory. He has professional experience producing hip-hop recordings and is a voting member of The Recording Academy.
Christine A. Payne is an instructor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She also lectures for SDSU’s Master of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences Program. She specializes in social and political theory, feminist science and technology studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of knowledge. Her article, Desire and Doubt: The Potentials and the Potential Problems of Pursuing Play was recently published in American Journal of Play. She is currently working on a forthcoming co-edited volume Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity.
Michael James Roberts is Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. He is co-editor (with Stanley Aronowitz) of Class: The Anthology (Wiley, 2018). His book Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock ’n’ Roll, the Labor Question, and the Musicians’ Union, 1942–1968 (Duke University Press, 2014) was nominated for the Mary Douglas Prize for best book by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. His articles have appeared in the journals Race & Class, Rethinking Marxism, Labor: Studies in Working Class Americas and the Sociological Quarterly.
Jan Rehmann is Visiting Professor for Critical Theory and Social Analysis at Union Theological Seminary in New York and lecturer at the Free University in Berlin, and co-editor of the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism. His books explore theories of ideology, postmodernist neo-Nietzscheanism, Max Weber’s theory of modernization, and the churches in Nazi Germany.
C. Heike Schotten is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches political theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She is the author of Queer Terror: Life, Death, and Desire in the Settler Colony (Columbia UP, 2018) and Nietzsche’s Revolution: Décadence, Politics, and Sexuality (Palgrave, 2009).
Gary Yeritsian is a PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in Sociology at UCLA. His work has been published in Journal of Consumer Culture, Critical Sociology, and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. His primary areas of interest are media studies and social theory.
