Lisa Adkins is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Her contributions to the discipline of sociology are in the areas of economic sociology, social theory and feminist theory. Recent publications include The Asset Economy (with Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings (2020) The Time of Money (2018). She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis).
Giorgos Bithymitris is a Researcher (Grade C) at the National Centre for Social Research (www.ekke.gr), with expertise in social stratification. His current research interests focus upon collective identities and nationalism in crisis and post-crisis contexts, practices in migrant integration, social cohesion and labour market policies. He has published a book on trade union movement, and several academic articles and book chapters on collective identities, nationalist discourses, Greek trade unionism, labour market policies.
Timothy Black is Associate Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Black’s work focuses on the organization and reproduction of power and its effects on marginalized populations. He is the author of three books – the recently published It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins, with Sky Keyes (Oxford University Press, 2021) – as well as two award winning books: When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Streets (Vintage, 2010) and On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy, with Mary Patrice Erdmans (University of California, 2015).
Assaf S Bondy is a UCLA postdoctoral fellow in the Safra Center for Ethics at Tel-Aviv University. He published several articles on class representation, labor movement and industrial relations in leading journals as Work, Employment and Society, Economic and Industrial Democracy and Journal of Industrial Relations. His research interests are Sociology of Work, Industrial Relations, Labor and Social Movements.
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 Alternatives (2019).
Alexandr Buzgalin is professor of the chair of political economy, economic faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Director of Scientific-educational center for contemporary Marxist studies, philosophical faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Visiting Professor, Cambridge and Beijing universities. Member of the editorial of the journals “International Critical Thought” and “World Review of Political Economy. His research interests include political economy, Marxism, dialectics, evolution of late capitalism, contradictions of post-Soviet economies. He is the author of “Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (disalienation as [social] creativity)” in (with Bulavka-Buzgalina L.A.) Third World Quarterly, 41: 8: 1322-1337, “The October Revolution: Practice as the Impulse for the Development of Theory”, Science and Society, 81: 4: 501-514, and “Critical political economy: the ‘market-centric’ model of economic theory must remain in the past – notes of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism” (with Kolganov A.) Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40: 2: 575-598.
Corey Dolgon is Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College and the President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Dolgon is the Author and Editor of five books including two award-winning monographs: The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Americas Paradise (NYU Press, 2005) and Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph Over Democracy (Policy Press, 2015). Dolgon has also performed singing lectures on folk music and social movements on campuses across the U.S. and around the world.
Luke Elliott-Negri is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is author of several articles about industrial unionism and social movements and co-author of a policy report on Connecticut’s paid sick days law. His dissertation analyzes the prospects of a contemporary left-wing political party (the Working Families Party) against the backdrop of the literature on American exceptionalism with respect to party formation. His co-authored book about social movement success and failure is under review at Oxford University Press.
Kathleen Griesbach is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. She recently received her PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. Her research draws on economic and cultural sociology, the sociology of time, and critical geography to examine work experiences Her research explores experiences in light of both ongoing economic transformations and enduring inequality in the labor process. Her current book project examines how contingent agricultural, oil and gas, academic, and delivery workers navigate uncertain work schedules, earnings, and landscapes in Texas and New York City. Her work has appeared in the journals Ethnography, Socius, and elsewhere.
Sara Helman is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Her research centers on the configuration of citizenship rights under neoliberalism, the sociology of citizenship and social movements. Her last articles were published in Social Politics, Journal of Social Policy, and Journal of Politics, Culture and Society.
Brian Hennigan is a PhD candidate in the Geography Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His research interests revolve around political economy, ideology, class, labor, and urban poverty.
Andrei Kolganov is the chief of Laboratory of Comparative Studies of Socio-Economic Systems, economic faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is the head scientist of Center for methodological and historical-economic studies, Institute of Economy, Russian Academy of Sciences and a member of the editorial board of the journal Moscow University Economics Bulletin. His research interests include political economy, Marxism, dialectics, evolution of late capitalism, contradictions of post-Soviet economies, contradictions of Soviet economic system, comparative economic studies. Recent publications include “Ukraine: Who Is to Blame, and What Needs to Be Done?” (with Buzgalin A.) Science and Society, 81: 2: 287-296, “Critical political economy: the ‘market-centric’ model of economic theory must remain in the past – notes of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism” (with Buzgalin A.) Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40: 2: 575-598, and “Russia: A New Imperialist Power?” (with Buzgalin A. and Barashkova O.) International Critical Thought, 6: 4: 645-660.
David Lane is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) and Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University; previously, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. His recent publications include: Changing Regional Alliances for China and the West (With G. Zhu, 2018), and The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism (2014). He has written extensively on development, socialism, transformation and the changing forms of capitalist society.
Ruth Milkman is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Polity, 2020) and several other books.
Gretchen Purser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on work, labor and urban poverty in the US. Her work has recently appeared in Qualitative Sociology, Dialectical Anthropology, Ethnography, and Anthropology of Work Review.
Adam Reich is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, and a faculty affiliate at Columbia’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE). He is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart (Columbia, 2018), co-authored with Peter Bearman.
Alexander M. Stoner is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Northern Michigan University where he teaches courses on environmental sociology, sociological theory, and social stratification. He is the author of Freedom in the Anthropocene: Twentieth-Century Helplessness in the Face of Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Hanna Ylöstalo is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests include neoliberalization of the Nordic welfare state, gendered economy-society relations as well as work and organizations. She has published her work in a range of journals including Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, International Feminist Journal of Politics and Policy & Politics.
Senlin Yu is professor of translation studies at Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China. He got his master’s degree in Chongqing University majoring in translation studies and obtained his Ph. D. in Sichuan University majoring in religious studies. He published 3 monographs and more than 30 papers on translation studies. His current research interest is in the history of Chinese-English translation.
Yujing Wang is an undergraduate of Southwest Jiaotong University majoring in translation and interpreting
