Werner Bonefeld teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of York (UK). Recent book publications include Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy (2014/2016), Notes from Tomorrow (2015), The Strong State and the Free Economy (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory (co-edited with Beverly Best and Chris O’Okane, three volumes, 2018).
Tom Brass formerly lectured in the Social and Political Sciences Faculty at Cambridge University, and directed studies in SPS for Queens’ College. He carried out fieldwork research in Latin America and India during the 1970s and 1980s and is the second longest serving editor of The Journal of Peasant Studies (1990–2008). His books include New Farmers’ Movements in India (1995), Free and Unfree Labour: The Debate Continues (1997), Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labour (1999), Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism (2000), Latin American Peasants (2003), Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (2011), Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (2014), Labour Markets, Identities, Controversies (2017) and Revolution and Its Alternative (2019).
Alan Cafruny is Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs at Hamilton College (USA). He is the author of Europe At Bay: In the Shadow of U.S. Hegemony (2007) with Magnus Ryner, Exploring the Global Financial Crisis (2014, co-edited with Herman Schwartz), Critical International Political Economy (2016, co-edited with Leila Talani and Gonzalo Pozo) and The European Union and Global Capitalism (2017, with Magnus Ryner).
Jennifer G. Correa is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Correa has published in academic venues such as Critical Sociology, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Cultural Dynamics. Most recently, she has co-authored a monograph entitled Affective Labour: (Dis)Assembling Distance and Difference with James M. Thomas, which traces the centrality of affective labour in enabling and constraining prevailing norms and practices of race, citizenship, class, gender and sexuality in multiple spatial contexts such as US–Mexico border, urban nightlife districts and American college campuses. Correa’s research interests span Latin@ studies, race, US–Mexico border studies, affect, and human rights.
Gareth Dale teaches politics and history at Brunel University. His publications include books on Karl Polanyi, the GDR and Eastern Europe, green growth, migrant labour and revolutions. His articles have appeared in The Ecologist, Viewpoint, Jacobin and Critical Sociology.
Thierry Drapeau is currently a contract faculty and associate member in the Department of Industrial Relations at Université du Québec en Outaouais in Quebec, Canada. His research interests lie in the areas of transnational labour studies, Atlantic world history, social movement studies, global political economy and critical social theory. He received his PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto, in 2014. He is the co-editor of L’Internationale sera le genre humain! De l’Association internationale des travailleurs à aujourd’hui (M Éditeur, 2015). He is presently working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled The Long First International: Workers of the Atlantic World Unite for Emancipation, 1714–1864, based on his dissertation.
Chamsy el-Ojeili is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His most recent book is Beyond Post-Socialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Vassilis K. Fouskas is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of States, Markets & People (STAMP) at the University of East London, UK. He is the founding and managing editor of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Routledge, eight issues annually since 1998) and, most recently, the author (with Bülent Gökay) of The Disintegration of Euro-Atlanticism and New Authoritarianism: Global Power-shift (Palgrave, 2019).
Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a former editor of The Political Quarterly and New Political Economy. His books include Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics (2003), Crisis Without End? The Unravelling of Western Prosperity (2014) and Open Left: The Future of Progressive Politics. His most recent book is Politics: Why It Matters (2019). In 2005 he received the Isaiah Berlin Prize from the UK Political Studies Association for a lifetime contribution to political studies.
Carol Harrington is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Cultural Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research concerns politics and policy on violence against women, sexual violence and sex work. She teaches courses on the sociology of violence, social policy and sexuality. In addition to her book, The Politicization of Sexual Violence: From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping (Ashgate, 2010), she has published articles on anti-sex trafficking policy in Bosnia and Kosovo, on gender expertise within peacekeeping operations and on sex work knowledge politics in Timor Leste, Sweden and New Zealand. More recently she has been researching digital accounts of sexual violence and has published on digital media coverage of the rape allegations against Julian Assange.
Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University and best known for his work on state theory, critical political economy, welfare state restructuring and cultural political economy. His most recent book is The State: Past, Present, Future (2015).
Lawrence Johnson is an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College. Primary research interests include the racial discourse of black elected officials, race and sports and critical theories of racism.
Mona Khneisser is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She graduated with a Masters degree in Sociology from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and has worked as an Instructor and Researcher at the Sociology Department, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs & the Asfari Institute for Civil Society & Citizenship at AUB, Lebanon. Her research interests are mainly centered on the Arab world and in the fields of social movements studies, sectarianism, and political economy.
Anthony Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University. His research looks at reconfigured labour markets under neoliberal global capital and thus far has focused on call centres and the service economy. The connection between the sociology of work and labour markets, identity and subjectivity and the fields of critical criminology, zemiology and social harm forms the basis of his current research. His research monograph Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line was published in 2013 by Ashgate, and his latest book The Harms of Work will be published by Policy Press in 2018.
Julien Mercille is currently Associate Professor of Geography at the School of Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland. He has published widely on neoliberalism and privatization, as well as on the media and US foreign policy. He has held visiting professor positions at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and Qatar University, Qatar. His current research focus is on the political economy of healthcare systems.
Shampa Roy-Mukherjee is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and a member of the Executive Board of STAMP at the University of East London, UK. Her research and publications dwell on globalization and its impact on social and economic development in the Global South. Her most recent publication appeared in the Croatian Political Science Review.
Enda Murphy is currently Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. He has published widely in the international literature and has held visiting professor positions at the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh City, University of Hartford, USA and Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town. He is also a former Fulbright Scholar. His current research focus is on neoliberalism and neoliberalisation and policy-related research on achieving sustainable development goals.
April M. Schueths is associate Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University. Her research focuses on the intersection of race with family, education and health, with attention to couples and families, where she explores the contrast between public perceptions and private realities. She is co-editor of Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy (2015). She has peer-reviewed articles published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Latino Studies, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Social Issues, Sociological Spectrum, American Sociologist, Children and Youth Services Review and Race, Ethnicity, and Education.
Andy Storey is assistant professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland. He specializes in political economy, including issues of economic and political reform pertaining to the EU and to the Global South.
Leila Simona Talani is Chair in International Political Economy and Jean Monnet Chair in the Department of European and International Studies, Kings College London, and Director of the London Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership. Her recent books include Critical International Political Economy (2016, co-edited with Alan Cafruny and Gonzalo Pozo), The Political Economy of Italy in the Euro: Between Credibility and Competitiveness (2017) and The Dark Side of Globalization (2019), co-edited with Roberto Roccu.
James M. Thomas (JT) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi. Thomas is the author of four books, over twenty peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and invited essays, and numerous commentaries in popular press. Thomas’s research has been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Pacific Standard, and Slate Magazine. Thomas’s research interests are in the areas of race and racism, inequality, affect, and Empire.
Madison Van Oort is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Van Oort has been published in Ethnography and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Michael A. Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Law at the LSE and has held visiting professorships at Cornell University, Paris II University, the National University of Singapore and the University of Keio. He teaches and researches in the areas of legal theory, constitutional theory and European integration. His publications include (with M. Dowdle) Questioning the Foundations of Public Law (Hart, 2018) and Constitutionalism Beyond Liberalism (CUP, 2017); ‘Authoritarian liberalism in the European constitutional imagination: Second time as farce’ (2015, European Law Journal); ‘The material constitution’ (2018, Modern Law Review, with M. Goldoni); ‘The spectre of authoritarian liberalism: Reflections on the constitutional crisis of the European Union’ (2013, German Law Journal); and ‘Constitutional pluralism: Chronicle of a death foretold?’ (2017, European Law Journal). He is currently working on a monograph on a constitutional history of European integration from the 1930s to the recent Euro-crisis, The Reconstitution of Europe: Lineages of Authoritarian Liberalism.
