Saladdin Ahmed is a philosopher and critical theorist. He teaches in the Departments of Political Science and Modern Languages and Literatures at the Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura (SUNY, 2019), Revolutionary Hope after Nihilism (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Critical Theory from the Margins (SUNY, 2023). His upcoming books are Exclusionary Politics in the Middle East (Routledge) and The Death of the Home (De Gruyter). His works primarily deal with topics related to social and political philosophy, Marxism, the Frankfurt School, the Middle East, international relations, resistance movements, social justice, and minorities.
Jerome Braun writes in interdisciplinary social science, with emphasis on culture and personality and on democracy from a cross-cultural perspective. He also writes on labor problems and pragmatic critical theory. He was a research student in industrial relations at the London School of Economics, which resulted in his book The Humanized Workplace (Praeger, 1995). His most recent book is Democratic Culture and Moral Character: A Study in Culture and Personality (Springer, 2013). He has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Sociology at Loyola University, Chicago, since 2014.
Justin P. Brienza is an organizational psychologist with a background in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. who trained at the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo, Canada. His primary program of research is focused on the application of wisdom-related qualities and processes to improve social and work experiences and outcomes. Research to date has focused on reasoning, balance, and overcoming bias, as well as social implications of perceptions of self-control. Justin’s recent peer-reviewed research has been published in Nature Communications and Social and Personality Psychological Science. Justin currently teaches organizational behavior, manager skills and communication, and wise leadership at the UQ Business School, Australia.
Felix del Campo is a PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. He does research on the history of political thought, exploring the relationship between neoliberalism and the contemporary far-right from a Longue Durée perspective. In his work, he focuses on German ordoliberalism, emphasizing the impact of a distinct tradition of neoliberalism synthesizing radical conservatism and neoliberalism in the European radical right milieu after the second world war. He traces the continuities between this European radical conservative neoliberalism’s critique of liberal modernity and the European new right, exploring its German manifestation in the intellectual organs close to the identitarian movement.
Carol Chan is an Assistant Professor at the Society and Health Research Center, Universidad Mayor, Chile.
Mathieu Hikaru Desan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His interests include the sociology of socialism and fascism, social theory, urban sociology, Marxism, and critical sociology. He has published on these and other topics in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Sociological Theory, Political Power and Social Theory, History of the Human Sciences, and Thesis Eleven.
Rosario Fernandez-Ossandón is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Santiago, and academic at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Universidad de Chile.
Shimaa Hatab is a lecturer in Middle East and global affairs, King’s College London. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to explore issues in the politics of development in the Middle East and Latin America. Her work appeared in Democratization and Comparative Politics. She is also a coauthor of Lumbering State and Restless Society: Egypt in the Modern Era, Columbia University Press. She is currently engaged in research on durable regime change, comparative democratization, and comparative political economy in the Middle East and Latin America.
Mikael Holmqvist is a sociologist and organization theorist at Stockholm University. His research is focused on elites, power, and education. His latest books are Universities Under Neoliberalism—Ideologies, Discourses and Management Practices (Routledge, 2023, coedited with Mats Benner), Elite Business Schools—Education and Consecration in Neo-liberal Society (Routledge, 2022), and Leader Communities—The Consecration of Elites in Djursholm (Columbia University Press, 2017).
Ali Intezari is a Senior Lecturer at the UQ Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. He specializes in the study of wisdom, decision-making, knowledge management, and human-technology interaction. His peer-reviewed research appears in the very top international journals such as Decision Sciences, International Journal of Information Management, Internet Technology & People, Journal of Knowledge Management, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Management Inquiry. He is the lead author of the book Wisdom, Analytics and Wicked Problems: Integral Decision-making in and Beyond the Information and the coeditor of Practical Wisdom in the Age of Technology: Insights, Issues and Questions for a New Millennium, Practical Wisdom, Leadership, and Culture: Indigenous, Asian, and Middle-Eastern Perspectives, and Leadership: Regional and Global Perspectives. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Management & Organization and the editorial board member of the Journal of Knowledge Management, International Journal of Knowledge Management, and the Journal of Business Ethics Education.
Berkay Kabalay is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University and a research assistant at Başkent University. His research interests are political theory, Turkish politics, and political economy.
Bernard McKenna is an Honorary Associate Professor in the University of Queensland Business School, Australia. He has published extensively in such journals as Leadership Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and Journal of Business Ethics, mostly on wisdom. He also coauthored Managing Wisdom in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge). He is an Associate Editor or editorial board member of several journals. His contribution to wisdom scholarship has largely been in applying it to organizations and leadership. Bernard also researches in critical discourse theory and analysis, as well as sustainability. He collaborates with non-Western researchers including Iran, Indonesia, and India and has provided qualitative research workshops in several countries.
Jennifer Bickham Mendez is a Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. Among other works, she has published numerous articles on Latinx immigration to the Southeast USA. Her coedited anthology with Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Latinx Belonging: Community-Building and Resilience in the Twenty-first Century United States, is forthcoming with the University of Arizona Press.
Amy A. Quark is an Associate Professor of Sociology at William & Mary. She has published a book and numerous articles on the themes of transnational rule-making and global inequities. Her recent work includes community-engaged research related to educational equity and racial justice.
Jacqueline Ross is a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol, within the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies. Her research currently revolves around ethnography, wage policy, restaurant workers, and tipping as a technique of labor control. Previous work from this project can be found in Social Policy & Society, Social Movement Studies and the Journal of Labor & Society.
Sonal Sharma is a PhD candidate in sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests lie at the intersection of labor struggles, race, caste, and gender in capitalism. He has published several articles in academic journals including SAMAJ, Economic and Political Weekly, and Journal of South Asian History and Culture.
Daniel Šitera is the Head of the Centre for Global Political Economy of the Institute of International Relations, Prague. His work is located in the areas of international and comparative political economy of Central and Eastern Europe. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Relations and Development, New Perspectives, and elsewhere.
Adrián Sotelo Valencia is a sociologist and researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His research interests include Latin American social thought and dependency theory, sociology of work, and structural and economic problems of contemporary development in Latin America. Recent publications include (2015) The Future of Work: Superexploitation and Social Precariousness in the 21st Century, Brill, Boston, USA; (2017) Subimperialism Revisited: Dependency Theory in the Thought of Ruy Mauro Marini, Brill, Leinden, Boston, USA; (2020) United States in a World in Crisis: The Geopolitics of Precarious Work and Super-Exploitation, Brill, Leiden-Boston, USA; (2021) Subimperialismo y dependencia en América Latina. El pensamiento de Ruy Mauro Marini, CLACSO-Posgrado en Estudios Latinoamericanos-UNAM; and (2022) Global Labor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity’s Degradation, Brill, Boston, USA, Brill, Boston-Leiden, USA (in press).
Giorgos Venizelos is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on populism, antipopulism, nationalism, collective identity, social movements, and discourse theory. He is the author of Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump (Routledge, 2023) and has published in journals such as Constellations, Political Studies and Representations. He co-convenes the Populism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (UK).
John Welsh is a researcher at the University of Helsinki. Working in history, political economy, and critical theory, he has recently published his work in Capital & Class, Anthropological Theory, Power & Education, Social Anthropology, Contemporary Political Theory, Thesis Eleven, Geopolitics, and the European Journal of Social Theory.
Ilan Wiesel is an urban geographist at Melbourne University. His research focuses elites, disability, and policies of inclusion. He is the author of Power, Glamor, and Angst: Inside Australia’s Elite Neighborhoods (Palgrave, 2018).
Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Deputy Director for Academic Affairs at Asia Research Center, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Her research interests are on the transformation of work and life under neoliberal imperatives and its links to workers identity, solidarity, and politics. She has published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, Critical Asian Studies, and elsewhere.
Yunus Yücel is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University. His research interests are political theory, Turkish politics, and political economy.
