Galina Anisimova is Candidate of Economic Science, Associate Professor, and Leading Researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her scientific research published in Russian focuses on economic inequality, stratification of Russian society, and labor market.
Hideo Aoki is the Director of Institute of Social Theory and Dynamics, Hiroshima, Japan, an institute of critical sociologists. His primary research interests include (1) urban bottom people, especially homelessness in Japan and the Philippines, (2) war sociology, especially the Second World War Special Attack Squad, and (3) Japanese minority, especially the conditions of the Buraku people. His work in English includes Japan’s Underclass: Day Laborers and the Homeless (Trans Pacific Press, 2006) and other works in Japanese. Recent article include ‘The Global City Hypothesis: Focusing on the New Labor, New Poverty, and Urban Bottom’ (Social Theory and Dynamic 1:116–132, 2016), and ‘Marxism and the Debate on the Transition to Capitalism in Prewar Japan’ (Critical Sociology 47:1:17–36; see https://moonpoet.jimdofree.com/ for a list of his work). Aoki’s focus is the study of the contemporary development of the state, capitalism (globalization and neoliberalism), and society from a critical perspective informed by Japanese and European Marxism.
Olga Barashkova, PhD, is Senior Lecturer of the Centre for Modern Marxist Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Senior Research Fellow at the Laboratory for Comparative Studies of Socio-Economic Systems at the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her scientific interests include a political economy approach to the study of the problems of socio-economic inequality and uneven spatial development, and comparative studies of economic models, especially in terms of their potential for technological modernization.
Lyudmila Bulavka-Buzgalina is a Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, a professor at the Centre for Modern Marxist Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her research focuses on social philosophy of culture, the problems of Soviet and post-Soviet culture, and ways to overcome human alienation. Bulavka-Buzgalina is one of the members of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism. Among her most recent publication: ‘Culture and revolution: Bakhtin, Mayakovsky and Lenin (dis-alienation as [social] creativity)’. Third World Quarterly (2020) 41(8): 1322–1337 (co-authored with Aleksandr Buzgalin).
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 (2019) and Public Sociology: Between Utopia and Anti-Utopia (2021).
Aleksandr Buzgalin is Professor at the Department of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Modern Marxist Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Buzgalin is Editor in Chief of Problems in Political Economy (Russian bilingual academic journal). His research focuses on methodological and fundamental aspects of Marxism, in particular, contradictions of the late capitalism and nature of Russian economy. Buzgalin is one of the leaders of the Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism. Among his most recent publication: Twenty-first-century capital: Critical post-Soviet Marxist reflections (co-authored with Andrey Kolganov; Manchester University Press, 2021).
Wenwen Du is a graduate student at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, specializing in English and American literature.
Ruslan Dzarasov, Doctor of Economic Science, Professor of the Department of Economics of the Financial University under the Government of Russian Federation. He specializes in the study of economic theory, political economy, Marxism, Post-Keynesian Economics, Corporate Governance and Investment Behavior, World-System Approach.
David Epstein, Doctor of Economic Science, Professor, Chief researcher at the Institute of Agrarian Economics and Rural Development of the St Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor. He specializes in the study of economic policy, agrarian policy, political economy, Marxism, socialism, the experience of the socialist economy, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Yuqun Fu is currently studying for her PhD in School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. She teaches in School of Foreign Languages, Southwest University of Science and Technology, China. Her research focuses on sociology and African American literature, American Indian literature. She has published a series of academic papers and participated in the publication of several books.
Carlos L. Garrido is a graduate student and assistant in philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His research focuses include Marxism, Hegel, and early-19th century American socialism. His academic work has appeared in The Journal of American Socialist Studies and Peace, Land, and Bread. Along with various editors from The Journal of American Socialist Studies, Carlos is currently working on a serial anthology of American socialism. His popular theoretical and political work has appeared in Monthly Review Online, CovertAction Magazine, The International Magazine, The Marx-Engels Institute of Peru, Countercurrents, Janata Weekly, Hampton Institute, and in Midwestern Marx, which he co-founded and where he serves as an editorial board member. As a political analyst with a focus on Latin America (esp. Cuba), he has been interviewed by Russia Today and has appeared in dozens of radio interviews in the United States and around the world.
Ning Guan is a PhD Candidate at the School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. Her major is Medio-Translatology, and her research interests involve Comparative literature, Modern and contemporary American poetry. She has published dozens of journal articles in China. Her recent publications include A Study of the Female Images in Shakespeare’s Four Tragedies from the Perspective of Ethical Literary Criticism, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature (A &HCI), Volume 5, Number 1, March 2021.
Li He is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Foreign Languages of Southwest Jiaotong University, China. From 2018 to 2019, she worked at the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States as a visiting Scholar. Her research interests focus on Culture and Comparative Literature. Prior to joining Southwest Jiaotong University, she was an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Foreign Language and Culture at North Sichuan Medical College of China. During her academic accumulation, her work has been published in a number of different journals, either in Chinese and English on Culture Study and Comparative Literature. She co-authored two books and hosted several projects.
Andrey Kolganov, Doctor of Economic Science, Chief of the Laboratory of the Comparative Study of Socio-Economic Systems, Economic Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia; Head scientist at Institute of Economy, Russian Academy of Sciences. His papers and monographs published in Russian, English, German, and Chinese, based on the modern Marxist view, are devoted to the problems of contemporary capitalism, the specificity of Russian economy, the influence of technological development on the content of labor as a prerequisite for socialism.
Chengjian Li is a professor of English Literature at Southwest Jiaotong University, China. She serves as Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Director for the Center for American Studies and Editor for the Journal of Sino-American Humanities Studies, both affiliated with her college. Her research and teaching interests include British poetry and Irish literature. She has published two monographs, and dozens of journal articles in the United States and in China. Her recent publications: Oscar Wilde’s Reading of Zhuangzi’s A Chinese Sage, Literature and Theology (A &HCI), Volume 34, Issue 4, December 2020. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction by Leela Gandhi (review) Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (A &HCI), 51 (4), 2020.
Wei Lu is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Beijing Language and Culture University. Her research areas are Asian American Literature, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies. Apart from her book Chinese American Literature: Towards Cultural Studies (2007), she has published extensively in the above areas.
Gleb Maslov has a PhD in Economics, and is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His papers published in Russian are devoted to technological foundations of economic theory development, modern Marxism, and the economic potential of the Fourth industrial revolution.
Jordanna Matlon is an urban ethnographer who studies racial capitalism and the articulation of Black masculinity in Africa and the African diaspora. She is generally interested in the ways ‘Blackness’ operates as a signifier, and as it intersects with gender norms, manifests in popular culture, and illuminates our understanding of political economy. Her book, A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism, is forthcoming with Cornell University Press.
Freeden Blume Oeur is Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Tufts University in Medford, MA, the United States. His scholarship examines the interconnections of gender, feminism, and African American intellectual history and politics; and more recently aspires to enrich a Du Boisian Sociology with humanist perspectives. He is the author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools (University of Minnesota Press, 2018).
Jean-Pierre (J.-P.) Reed is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Africana Studies, and Philosophy at Southern Illinois University. His primary research interests include the sociology of revolutions/social movements, theory, culture, and liberation theology. Among other venues, his work has appeared in Theory and Society, Critical Sociology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Critical Research on Religion. He is the author of Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution (Lexington Books, 2020).
Azam Sarwar had been a lecturer in English literature at National University of Modern Languages, Pakistan since 2016. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Southwest Jiaotong University. His research interests mainly focus on feminism, film-philosophy, Pakistani literature, Marxist Ideology, and Postcolonialism. His most recent two essays: ‘Breaking Free from Patriarchal Appropriation of Sacred Texts: An Islamic Feminist Critique of Bol’ was accepted by Asian Journal of Women Studies (AHCI), and ‘Demystifying Ideological Maneuvering and Historical Amnesia in The Ghost and the Darkness: A Contrapuntal Watching’ (Journal of Postcolonial Writing) is under review.
Zhan Terentyevich Toshchenko is Doctor of Philosophical Science, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor in the Department of Sociology at Russian State University for Humanities and Chief Researcher, Institute of Sociology (Moscow, Russia). He studies the problems of economic and political sociology. He pays special attention to the analysis of contradictions in the development of modern society, which are devoted to his monographs ‘Paradox Man’, ‘Phantoms of Russian Society’, ‘Centaur-Problem’, ‘Society of Trauma’.
Michael Voeykov is a Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the political economy sector at the Institute of Economy of Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include political economy development, soviet economy, transformations of the labor force, inequality in Russia.
Natalia G. Yakovleva is a Leading Researcher in the Center for Institutes of Socio-Economic Development at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She specializes in the study of the issues of marketization and financialization of education in the modern economy. Among her recent publication: Financialization of Education: Statement of the Problem. Sociological research [Sotsialogicheski issledovania]. №12. 2019: 104–114.
Hong Zeng received her PhD in Comparative Literature from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2002. She had been tenure-track assistant and associate professor at Carleton College and Hamline University in America for 13 years before she became full professor in English and Comparative Literature at Southwest Jiaotong University in China. She had published five books in the United States, and dozens of papers on international and American journals. Her books, A Deconstructive Reading of Chinese Natural Philosophy in Literature and the Arts: Taoism and Zen Buddhism, Semiotics of Exile in Contemporary Chinese Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Semiotics of Exile in Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She received a research fellowship from Asia Network in the United States on Taoist influenced Literature and Arts in Chengdu and Yunnan (2011) and won (2018) a nation-grant in China on 21st-century Pulitzer-Prize awarded poets.
Juyan Zhang, PhD in English Language and Literature, is a lecturer at the English Department of Southwest Jiaotong University. Her research areas are Ethnic Literature in the United States, Chinese Diasporic Writing, Comparative Literature.
