Jerome Braun, a Visiting Scholar at Loyola University, Chicago, Dept. of Sociology since 2014, writes on interdisciplinary social science, with some emphasis on culture and personality and on democracy from a cross-cultural perspective. He also writes on labor problems and on what he calls pragmatic critical theory. His publications include The Humanized Workplace: A Psychological, Historical, and Practical Perspective (Praeger, 1995). His most recent book is Democratic Culture and Moral Character: A Study in Culture and Personality (Springer, 2013).
Michael Burawoy teaches social theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been President of the American Sociological Association and of the International Sociological Association. Most recently he is the author of Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu and of the forthcoming, Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia.
Rodney D. Coates is a public sociologist engaged in critical race, social justice, social movements, social policy, and practice. For Coates, being a public sociologist means that the work he does must have an impact in the wider communities — both within and external to the university. His books have won awards and charted new territory. He published, with A Ferber and D Brunsma, The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality (Sage. 2017). Coates has numerous published peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters, and collections. Recently, he published A 12 Step Program for Decolonizing the University: A conversation with Dr. Rodney Coates (https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2020/07/rodney-coates-outlines-a-12-step-program-for-decolonizing-academe/).
Enzo Colombo is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Intercultural Relations at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy. His research interests lie in everyday multiculturalism, active citizenship, cultural aspects of the globalisation process, young adults’ identification and civic participation. He has published in top peer-reviewed journals. He is author of Youth and the Politics of the Present. Coping with Complexity and Ambivalence (Routledge, 2019: eds. with P. Rebughini); Children of Immigrants in a Globalized World: A Generational Experience (Palgrave, 2012; with P. Rebughini), Sociologia delle relazioni interculturali (Carocci, 2020) and Le società multiculturali (Carocci, 2011).
Nobuhle Judy Dlamini is the Chancellor at The University of the Witwatersrand and Chairman of GBVF Response Fund. She is a medical and academic doctor with an interest in social justice, especially gender equity. Her doctoral thesis investigated the impact of the intersection of race, gender and social class, in women leaders’ career progression and strategies for gender transformation at leadership levels. She converted her thesis to a best-selling book titled, Equal but Different-Women Leaders’ Life Journeys. Her most recent article was published in The South African Journal of Psychology in 2020, entitled ‘Social justice and psychology: conjunction in a time of peril’
António Pedro de Andrade Dores, PhD, is a Professor of Sociology and fellow researcher at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). He teaches sociology of violence, human rights and social justice in Master and Doctoral degree in Sociology. His background includes statistics and methods on social sciences, information society, social theory (founders and classics), and sociology of prisons. He is author and co-author of several books including 2020 Estado Social Real (Real Welfare State) and 2021 Reeducar o Século XXI: Libertar o espírito científico (Re-educate the 21rst Century: Free the scientific spirit). He is fellow researcher at European Prison Observatory and at World Social Sciences and Humanities Network.
Ksenia Gerasimova is Professor of Public Policy, Higher School of Economics, Moscow. She was Affiliated Lecturer in the Centre of Development Studies and Research Associate in Social and Biological Studies in the University of Cambridge, has worked with Population Council, Council of Europe, IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent), UNRISD (United Nations Research Institute of Social Development), governments and NGOs. Her research interests are management of natural resources, agriculture, the role of science and civil society. She is a member of the Cambridge University Strategic Initiative on Food Security. Dr Gerasimova is an author of several academic articles in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and policy briefs on the role of biotechnology science in public policy.
Marjorie Johnstone, MSW, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University in Canada. Her research focuses on critical feminist perspectives, the history of Canadian social work, community mental health, citizenship, immigration and globalization.
Eswarappa Kasi is on the Department of Tribal Studies, Art, Culture and Folk Literature, Faculty of Tribal Studies, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University (IGNTU), Amarkantak, Anuppur (Dist), MP, India. His main areas of research include Social Anthropology, Tribal Studies, Political Sociology, Marginality and Politics, NGOs, Civil Society and South Asia. His research has been published in reputed journals like South Asia Research, Journal of Developing Societies, Journal of Asian & African Studies, SAGE Open, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, South Asian Survey. He has also contributed entries to Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion; Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Ageing; and The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. He is also serving as Editorial Board Member for South Asia Research & SAGE Open (Humanities).
Sadık Kılıç received is currently working as Associate Professor at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University. His area of interest is mobilization theory, trade unionism, and other issues related to labor relations. He has published some studies on Turkey about worker collectivism, union revitalization, union representation gap, and union organizing. His recent publications focus on policies on labor relations. For example, his latest study is "Reflections of desynchronized neoliberalism in artisanal and small-scale mining: Evidence from Zonguldak, Turkey", published in The Extractive Industries and Society.
René Kreichauf is an urban sociologist with research and publication experiences in the fields of urban studies and migration research. He did his PhD at Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and at the Graduate School of North American Studies (Freie Universität Berlin) about the development of local policies in response to the increased arrival of forced migrants in European and U.S. cities. He researches and teaches on topics such as urban asylum and migration regimes, detention, refugee camps, migrant activism, violence, and capitalist urbanization processes. His research has been published in Comparative Migration Studies, Political Geography, Urban Geography, and Urban Planning.
Eunjung Lee, PhD, MSW, RSW is Associate Professor and Endowed Chair in Mental Health and Health at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. She is a psychotherapy process researcher focusing on cross-cultural practice serving marginalized populations with trauma and violence experiences in community mental health. Her research focuses on everyday interactions in clinical practice using psychodynamic approaches and critical theories in language, discourse, and power, as well as utilizing simulation-based learning in social work education. Analyzing social policy and media studies, her research also explores how policy and its underlying politics construct dominant discourses that impact immigrants and refugees in a global neoliberal era and theorize Canadian multiculturalism and welfare state.
Dr Pali Lehohla is the former Statistician-General of South Africa, a position he held from 2000 up to 2017. He has served as co-chair of PARIS21 and the Chair of the United Nations Statistics Commission. He was the founding chair of the Statistics Commission of Africa (StatCom Africa) and chairs the African Symposium for Statistical Development (ASSD). He was the Vice President of the International Statistics Institute (ISI), and sponsors the Young African Statistician (YAS) movement. He served as one of on the twenty-five-member panel on Data Revolution appointed by the UN Secretary General and was a member of the Independent Accountability Panel for the health of women, children and adolescents. In October 2018 the University of Johannesburg appointed Dr Lehohla as a Professor of Practice. Since 2018 he became a Research Associate at Oxford University. He is a member of the Executive of Indlulamithi Scenarios 2030 for South Africa. For twenty years to date he has been a weekly columnist in the Business Report that provides a lens on the functioning of society.
Yuanyuan (Claudia) Liu, a graduate student at North Carolina State University. Hery research interests are race, post-colonialism, China, and critical theory.
Ben A. Lohmeyer, PhD, is an Early Career Researcher, passionate teacher and experienced youth worker. His research and teaching are in the field of youth sociology and the sociology of violence, with intersections into youth work practice. Ben is Lecturer in Social Work at Flinders University. His current research focusses on cultures of violence and bullying in schools, and recently published a book on Youth and Violent Performativities (Springer).
Jan Lust has a PhD. in Development Studies. He is a researcher and professor at the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of the University Ricardo Palma in Peru and forms part of the Board of Directors of the University’s Research Centre. He is the author of Capitalism, class and revolution in Peru, 1980-2016, a book that analyzes the political, economic and social reasons why the Peruvian socialist left has not been able to carry out its revolutionary project of social transformation. His academic interests encompass international political economy, Peruvian political, economic and social development, labor issues, class, social movements and guerrilla struggle.
Alejandro Márquez is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His work examines care work in social movements and the emotional dimensions in movement organizations. He is also interested in immigration, race, and religion.
Gabrield Esteban Merino is Professor and researcher at the Universidad de la Plata. Doctor in Social Sciences. Coordinator of CLACSO working group, China and the World Power Map.
Maissam Nimer is an early career researcher specializing in sociology of migration, labor, education and gender with a regional focus on the Middle East and Turkey. She studied the relation between the migration regime and labor market structures as well as inequalities in experiences of refugees in Turkey and France, as a Mercator-IPC fellow at Sabanci University as well as a postdoctoral researcher at Koç University and Paris Nanterre University. She has taught at Galatasaray University and Paris Sorbonne University. Her work has been published in journals such as Gender and Education, Critical Sociology, Migration Studies, Third World Quarterly, Sociological Research Online, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Multilingua as well as New Perspectives on Turkey, Idafat, Civil Society Review and New Middle East Studies Journal.
Rajiv Ranjan, is an Associate Professor at College of Liberal Arts, Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. He is trained in Chinese language and teaches courses in international politics. He is also an adjunct fellow at Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi. His publications have appeared in Global Environmental Politics, International Affairs, Contemporary International Relations (现代国际关系), Millennium:Journal of International Relations, Political Studies Review, Strategic Analysis, etc. His co-edited book (with Guo Changgang), China and South Asia: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power play (Routledge 2021). His research focuses on India-China relations, World Order, Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy, Chinese Society and Culture and Environmental and Climate change Politics.
Justin Rogers-Cooper is Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), and Faculty in the Master of Arts in the Liberal Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research and publications address intersections of race, class, and gender in nineteenth century American literature, culture, and history. His forthcoming publications include work on the print culture of the 1877 general strike and the gendered politics of striking in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's novel The Portion of Labor. He is a frequent guest on the podcast The Nostalgia Trap.
Stephen J. Rose is a labor economist, currently a nonresident fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute and a Research Professor at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy. His focus is on empirical analyses using large micro datasets to study the interactions between formal education, training, career movements, incomes, and earnings. He is the author of Social Stratification in the U.S. (7e New Press 2015) and Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger After the Financial Crisis (St. Martin’s Press 2010). Recent publications include “The Ins and Outs of Measuring Income Inequality in the United States” (Inequality in the U.S, Oxford University Press) “Life Cycle Income Trajectories, 1967 to 2016.” (Brookings Institution), and “Still A Man’s Labor Market: The Slowly Narrowing Gender Wage Gap (Institute for Women’s Policy Research).
Susan Beth Rottmann is an Assistant Professor in the Social Science Faculty at Özyeğin University with expertise in qualitative research methods, migration, transnationalism, gender, ethnicity, religion and politics in Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Rottmann has her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012). She has received several major research grants, including a Fulbright-Hays DDRA and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Research Institute in Turkey and the Institute of Turkish Studies. Currently, she is a PI for the EC-funded HORIZON 2020 project, RESPOND- Multilevel Governance of Mass Migration in Europe and Beyond (https://www.respondmigration.com/).
Atrayee Saha completed her PhD in Sociology from the Centre for Studies in Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University and is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Muralidhar Girls’ College, Calcutta University. She has worked mainly on issues related to agricultural economy and tribal development. Her research articles have been published in several journals like South Asia Research, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies and others.
Jiping Sheng is a professor in School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China. She got her PhD Degree in College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University in 1999. Her academic interest includes food science, food safety management, food nutrition and industry development, agri-food value chain upgrading and inclusive development. She has published more than 100 paper in international journals related natural science and some paper in journals related social science, such as China Agricultural Economic Review, Journal of China Agricultural University
Nik Taylor, PhD, is a critical and public sociologist whose research focusses on mechanisms of power and marginalisation expressed in/through human relations with other species and is informed by critical/ intersectional feminism. Nik currently teaches at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and is Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies. Nik’s latest books include Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual: Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge (Palgrave, 2017), and Queer Entanglements (2021, Cambridge University Press).
Javier Trevino-Rangel is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Northumbria. Research interests: atrocity and public responses to human rights violations.
Jiang Zhao has a PhD in Agricultural Economics and Rural development from Renmin University of China, now works for China Oil & Foodstuffs Corporation. Zhao Jiang's academic interest includes agri-food value chain upgrading and inclusive development. His papers have been published in China Agricultural Economic Review, Issues in Agricultural Economy [农业经济问题], China Soft Science [中国软科学] and Journal of China Agricultural University [中国农业大学学报].
