Lisa Adkins is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. She is also an Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor (2015--2019). Her contributions to the discipline of sociology are in the areas of economic sociology, social theory and feminist theory. Key publications include The Time of Money (2018), The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency (with Maryanne Dever, 2016) and Measure and Value (with Celia Lury, 2012). She is joint Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies (Routledge/Taylor & Francis).
Thomas Allmer studied media and communication and political science at the University of Salzburg and Victoria University. First a Lecturer in Social Justice at the University of Edinburgh, now he is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling. He is also a member of the Unified Theory of Information Research Group, Austria. His publications include Towards a Critical Theory of Surveillance in Informational Capitalism (Peter Lang, 2012) and Critical Theory and Social Media: Between Emancipation and Commodification (Routledge, 2015).
David Arditi is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research addresses the impact of digital technology on society and culture, with a specific focus on music. Arditi is author of iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era, and his essays have appeared in Popular Music & Society, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Civilisations, Media Fields Journal and several edited volumes. He also serves as Co-Editor of Fast Capitalism.
Francisco Arqueros-Fernández is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory of Social and Cultural Anthropology (LASC), University of Almería, Spain (UAL). Francisco’s current work focuses on the experience of unemployment in Spain and Ireland since the economic crash.
Rachel K. Brickner is a Professor in the Department of Politics at Acadia University (Wolfville, Canada). She has published on workers’ activism and labour rights for marginalized workers, including women and migrant workers, as well as public sector workers.
Jenny Chan (PhD 2014) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to joining the university, she was a Lecturer of Sociology and Contemporary China Studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a Junior Research Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Currently she serves as the Vice President of Communications of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022). Her first book is Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers (co-authored with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai).
Colin Coulter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland. Colin’s most recent book is Working for the clampdown: The Clash, the dawn of neoliberalism and the political promise of punk (2019, Manchester University Press).
Meaghan Dalton is a Planner for the Halifax Regional Municipality (Nova Scotia). She has a Masters in Planning from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Acadia University. Her research interests are local politics and government, equitable and inclusive consultation and engagement, and approaches to housing affordability.
Cedric de Leon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Labor Center Director at UMass Amherst. He is the author of Origins of Right to Work (2015) and Party and Society (2013) and co-editor of Building Blocs (2015). His research is on the intersection of race, labour and party politics.
Sara Duvisac is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at New York University. Her research areas include insecurity of work, gender and development.
Lucas Franco is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Minnesota. His research areas include comparative political economy, labour studies and Scandinavian politics.
Erika Denisse Grajeda is the Marilyn J. Gittell Postdoctoral Fellow in Urban Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Grajeda studies gendered precarious employment and immigrant labor organizing in the U.S. Her research on Latina migrant women’s participation in intimate labor markets in New York City and San Francisco examines emergent forms of social control that state and non-state actors mobilize to manage “illegal” migrants. She is currently extending this line of inquiry to immigrant labor organizing in Texas.
Christopher Gunderson (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Howard University where he teaches classes in social theory, social movements and contentious politics, and race, class and gender. He worked for several years in Chiapas as both a solidarity activist and scholar. His research interests are in the processes by which subalterns constitute themselves as revolutionary political subjects. He has published in Social Movement Studies; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Historical Materialism; Interface; Science & Society and elsewhere.
Kevan Harris is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (University of California Press, 2017).
Peter Ikeler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Old Westbury. He specializes in labour and labour movements and is the author of Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains (Cornell University Press, 2016).
Dana Kornberg is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the University of Michigan. An urban sociologist, she works transnationally to develop theories of economic and institutional change under systems of neoliberal capitalism and racial domination. She has also written about the politics of water and race in Detroit and postcolonial struggles to control systems of solid waste in Delhi.
Matti Kortesoja is at the University of Tampere. His research interests cover social and cultural theory. The title of his recently completed doctoral dissertation in sociology is Power of Articulation: Imageries of Society and Social Action in Structural-Marxism and Its Critique. He is a postdoctoral researcher for the research project ‘Security, Privacy and Trust: The Legitimation Challenge of Networked Society’ in the Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication (COMET) at the University of Tampere. He worked in the Social Science for the C21st research programme as a research assistant while completing his thesis.
Amy Krings is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago. She received her MSW and PhD from the University of Michigan in the joint Social Work and Political Science programme. Her research examines community-based organizations and their strategic campaigns to advance environmental and educational justice. Her recent publications include ‘Racial inequality and the implementation of emergency management laws in economically distressed urban areas’, in Children and Youth Services Review.
Isak Ladegaard is a sociologist and criminologist. His research interests include technology and social change, economic sociology, and social control. His work on digital markets has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including Socio-Economic Review, Sociological Review, and British Journal of Criminology, and he has contributed to media reports by Wired, Le Monde, and the New York Times. His drug trade research is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Erin Lane is a doctoral student in Sociology and Social Work at the University of Michigan.
Mona Mannevuo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science, University of Turku, Finland. Her research interests include affect theory, labour history, STS studies, and recently, neuromanagement. Her work has been published in journals such as Theory, Culture & Society, Organization and The Sociological Review. She is a co-editor of the Affective Capitalism special issue for the Ephemera Journal (2016).
Michael McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. He writes and teaches about labor, politics, finance, and social theory.
Stephanie L. Mudge is an Associate Professor and political and economic sociologist at the University of California-Davis. She is the author of Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Manjusha Nair is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University. Before this, she taught at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India (SUNY Press 2016), which received Honorable Mention from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Division Book Award. Her research has been at the intersection of political sociology and development, with a comparative focus on land and labour politics in India, China, and Africa. She is the chair-elect of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Global Division for the 2019-2021 term.
Angela Nagle is an independent scholar and the author of Kill all normies: Online culture wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right (2017, Zero Books).
Irene Pang is currently an Assistant Professor at the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University.
Dinesh Paudel is an associate professor in the Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University, USA. His research explores the relationship among development interventions, environmental changes and political transformations in Nepal and the Himalayas. His most recent publication explores the post-earthquake changes in Nepal and the impacts of large scale infrastructure development in the Himalayas.
Guy Redden is Associate Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His work centres upon the relationships between culture and economy and includes Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power (Sage 2019).
Chris Rhomberg is Professor of Sociology at Fordham University. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Michigan State University and Yale University. His first book No There There: Race, Class and Political Community in Oakland (2004) received the 2006 Robert E. Park Award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Community and Urban Sociology, and his second book The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012) received the 2013 best book award from the ASA section on Labor and Labor Movements. He is a former chair of the Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association, and he is a member of the National Writers Union/UAW Local 1981.
J. P. Sapinski is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Université de Moncton. He is interested in how the structures of capitalism and corporate power mediate the social metabolism between human societies and the ecosphere, and how we can transform and decolonize this relationship to make it just and sustainable.
Michael Schwartz, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Emeritus at Stony Brook University, has published extensively in the areas social movements, business structure, homelessness, industrial decline, political dynamics and neoliberal globalization. His newest book with Joshua Murray, Wrecked: How the American Automobile Industry Destroyed its Capacity to Compete, analyzed the dynamics that determined the growth and ultimate decline of the auto industry in Detroit. Earlier books include War Without End, a political-economic analysis of the origins and impact of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and the award-winning volumes Radical Protest and Social Structure and The Power Structure of American Business (with Beth Mintz).
Hanna Ylöstalo is a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research project, titled ‘Missing “Plan F” – A battle between knowledge, economy and equality in the changing welfare state’ (2017–2020), is concerned with the changing conditions of gender equality policy in Finland. Her research interests include the 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 International Feminist Journal of Politics, Gender and Education and Gender, Work and Organization.
