Madeline C. Arkins is a researcher in higher education at University Industry Innovation Network in Amsterdam. She completed her MSc in Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a BA in English Literature and German from Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include race, inequalities in housing and higher education, how these are sustained through infrastructures of power, and how they can be overcome. She is a contributing editor to the non-fiction literary journal TOLKA.
David Chen is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Toronto. His research interests include transnational corporations, international political economy, political sociology, critical social theory, and China. His research has been published in Third World Quarterly, Science & Society, and Canadian Political Science Review.
Fernanda Feil is an economist specializing in sustainable finance, financial system, economic development, macroeconomic analysis, and conjuncture. She is a Visiting Scholar at Fluminense Federal University—UFF, where she maintains intense activity in the Research Group on Finance and Development—FINDE.
Bonnie E. French is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Bonnie earned her doctorate from The Graduate Center of City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests center around race and racism in institutions such as schools and prisons, and around social inequalities, more generally. She is the author of the 2017 book Race at Predominantly White Independent Schools: The Space between Diversity and Equity.
Jack A. Goldstone is a Hazel Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (Routledge 2016) and Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2023).
Pankil Goswami is a PhD student at the School of Social Work, McGill University. His research interests revolve around labor, social policy, institutions, and migration. His research primarily tries to understand how contemporary welfare institutions implement social policies against a backdrop of neoliberal ideas which has captured the consciousness of policymakers around the world. He is also interested in dissecting the phenomenon of informalization of work through labor market flexibility and the consequence of precarious working conditions among people who work at the bottom of the informal economy.
Heidi Gottfried is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department, Wayne State University. Her research interests span areas ranging from sociology of work, the care economy, sociology of gender, welfare state, feminist theory, labor movements, to comparative political economy. She has co-edited numerous special issues and books on gender, work, and the economy, including the Global Labor Migrations: New Directions (with Eileen Boris, Julie Greene, and Joo-Cheong Tham), (University of Illinois Press, 2023); Handbook on the Sociology of Work and Employment (Sage, 2015) and several special issues of Critical Sociology, Global Capitalism and Labor in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China (with Ngai Pun), Nov. 2022, 48, 7; Japanese Capitalism (with Hideo Aoki and David Fasenfest) January 2021, 47, 1; and Care Work in Transition: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Migration and Care, a special issue of Critical Sociology (with Jennifer Jihye Chun). Her monograph Gender, Work and Economy: Unpacking the Global Economy (Polity Press, 2013) chronicles the changing patterns of gender and work across industrialized countries, old and emerging global cities, both in the global North and South.
Lisa Hajjar is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California–Santa Barbara. Her work focuses on law and conflict, with particular interest in torture, war crimes, military occupations, and courts. Her most recent book, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture, was published by University of California Press in 2022.
Peter Ikeler is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Old Westbury. His research centers on post-industrial labor processes and movements, as well as contemporary class structure and consciousness in advanced capitalist countries. He is the author of Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains (Cornell University Press, 2016).
Andrey Korotayev is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at HSE University–Moscow and a Senior Research Professor at the Eurasian Center for Big History and System Forecasting of the Institute of Oriental Studies as well as in the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has authored/co-authored over 400 scholarly publications, including monographs such as Ancient Yemen (Oxford University Press, 1995), World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Compact Macromodels of the World System Growth (URSS, 2006), Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Secular Cycles and Millennial Trends (URSS, 2006), Great Divergence and Great Convergence. A Global Perspective (Springer, 2015), Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery (Springer, 2016), and The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. A Big History Perspective (Springer, 2020). He is a laureate of a Russian Science Support Foundation in ‘The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Nomination (2006); in 2012, he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.
Acar Kutay is a Professor at Molde University College. He worked previously as a research fellow at the University of Bergen and as a faculty member at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. He most recently worked as an Associate Professor and a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Dr. Kutay is the author of the book Governance and European Civil Society: Discourse, Governmentality and NGOs (Routledge, 2014) and NGOs, Civil Society, and Structural Changes (Palgrave, 2021). He has also published, among others, in JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, European Law Journal, Globalizations, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Critical Policy Studies. His current research focuses on Michel Foucault, Carl Schmitt, and democratic theory.
Jason A. Miller is a sociology PhD student at the University of Victoria, Canada. He researches social movements, the politics of sport, youth leadership, and the generational dynamics of climate change, often through a narrative lens.
Valentine M. Moghadam is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston, which she joined in January 2012. Previously she directed women’s studies programs at Purdue University and Illinois State University, and she was a section chief at UNESCO in Paris and a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER in Helsinki. Born in Iran, she is the author of many publications on politics, gender, and political economy of Middle East and North African countries. Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa (1993, 2003, 2013) includes analyses of the region’s revolutionary movements as well as the Islamist challenge. In addition to her co-authored book with Shamiran Mako, After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge, 2021), she co-authored, with Sahar Shakiba and Omid Ghaderzadeh, ‘Women in Iranian Kurdistan: Patriarchy and the Quest for Empowerment’ (Gender & Society, vol. 35, no. 4, Aug. 2021: 616–642). Her chapter, ‘Varieties of Feminism in the Middle East and North Africa’, the result of research taken while holding a Chair at the Library of Congress Kluge Center (Fall 2021), is forthcoming in Shahram Akbarzadeh (ed.), Edward Elgar Handbook of Middle East Politics (2023).
Ahmad Mohammadpour is a socio-anthropologist from Eastern/Iranian Kurdistan. He is an Assistant Professor of Sociology (Race and Ethnic Relations) at Bentley University, USA. Mohammadpour holds a PhD in Sociology from Shiraz University and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Mohammadpour research centers around the intersection of internal colonialism, minoritized ethno-religious communities, and political economy of de-development in the Middle East, with a focus on Kurds in Iran. His research has appeared in various international peer-reviewed journals such as Current Anthropology, Security Dialogue, The British Journal of Sociology, Third World Quarterly, Ethnicities, Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, among others.
Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London, UK. He has published extensively on the political economy of development, industrial policy, climate adaptation, neoliberalism, democracy, alternative economic policies, Latin American political and economic development, inflation and stabilization, and the labor theory of value and its applications.
Arthur Scarritt is a Professor of Sociology at Boise State University. His recent works have focused on racial inequality globally—Tripartheid (2022)—and in higher education—Selling Diversity, Promoting Racism (2019).
Mark Shakespear is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in cultural, political, and environmental sociology, focusing primarily on climate change and energy transitions. His most recent article, ‘Mapping the environmental field: Networks of foundations, ENGOs and think tanks’, was published in the Canadian Review of Sociology.
Alisa R. Shishkina, PhD (Political Science), is a Senior Research Fellow of the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis at HSE University–Moscow and Research Fellow at the Institute for African Studies, which is part of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is an author of more than 70 academic papers including articles in journals indexed by Scopus and WoS systems. She is a member of the Research Committee ‘Risks of Social and Political Destabilization’ of the Russian Sociologists Society and a member of the African Econometric Society. She is also involved in a number of research teams and grants (‘Quantitative analysis and computer modeling of the processes of destabilization of modernizing socio-political systems’ of the The Russian Foundation for Basic Research, ‘Socio-political instability in the ‘Afrasian’ region: local educational spaces and the global terrorist threat’, ‘Russian Policy in the Middle East: prospects and limits of cooperation with the countries of the region’ of the Russian Science Foundation), as well as research projects in political science (Russian Association of Political Science) and development of African countries in the digital age (Institute for African Studies RAS).
