Hillary Angelo is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research on the environment and urbanization includes historical and contemporary work on urban greening, sustainability planning, and climate change. In 2021, she published How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens (University of Chicago Press), and she is currently writing a book on public lands and the energy transition in the American West.
David Arditi, Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for Theory at the University of Texas at Arlington.
David Beer is Professor of Sociology at the University of York. His work explores how transformation in technology and media reshape society and culture. Alongside this, he also has an interest in the past and future of social thought. His recent books include The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking (2023) and Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts (2019).
Shaun Best recently retired from teaching at the University of Winchester. In addition to publishing widely on the work of Zygmunt Bauman, he also writes about issues in relation to social inclusion and exclusion within an educational context. His most recent book, Reframing Educational Failure and Aspiration: The Rise of the Meritocracy (2024) questions the understanding of ‘aspiration’ and reviews the performance of six schools in England against the background of neoliberal educational policy and practice.
Tim Black is professor of sociology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of three award winning books, most recently, It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins (Oxford, 2021). His work focuses on how the organization of power is lived and contested. Black is currently working on two books: a study of reentering citizens from an alternative incarceration facility in Cleveland, and a follow up book to his first, When a Heart Turns Rock Solid, now an ethnographic study of 34 years in a Puerto Rican community. He teaches courses on race, class, and mass incarceration; capitalism, cities, and inequality; ethnographic methods; and the history of social and political thought.
Ezgi Bora has recently received her PhD in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University. She is an independent researcher. Her research interests include Gender studies, Turkish studies, social movements and transnational sexualities.
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 Labor: The Debate Continues (1997), Toward a Comparative Political Economy of Unfree Labor (1999), Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism (2000), Latin American Peasants (2003), Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century (2011), Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (2014), Labor Markets, Identities, Controversies (2017), Revolution and Its Alternatives (2019), Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism (2021), and Transitions (2022).
Kürşad Ertuğrul is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. His area of research interests includes social and political theory, Turkish politics, European studies, and Turkish modernization. His latest publications have appeared in Middle East Critique, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, and International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Egor Fain is a research fellow at the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow, Russia. His field of research focuses on the analysis of revolutionary and protest dynamics, coups and coupvolutions (especially in the Sahel region), typology of revolutions, and global history. He is the author or co-author of eight academic publications, including ‘Coupvolution as a Mechanism of Regime Change in the Sahel’ (2024).
Leonid Grinin is Senior Research Professor at the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow, as well as Senior Research Professor at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is author of more than 600 publications, including more than 30 monographs in Russian, English, and Chinese. His current research focuses on comparative political studies, theory of revolution, political anthropology, global economy, global history, historical sociology, and futures studies.
Jae Kyun Kim is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Russell Sage College. His research explores the singular significance of antiblackness and its implications for the construction of modernity and global racial order, with a particular focus on East Asia. He is currently working on his book manuscript, Yellow over Black: The Precolonial and Colonial History of Race in Korea, 1883–1945.
Jongchul Kim has critically examined the modern concepts of ‘trusts’, ‘person’, and ‘property’ and applied this critique to his researches on money and finance. He earned a PhD in Political Science at York University, Canada, and was a postdoctoral fellow in Max Plank Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany and in Columbia Law School, USA. He is currently a professor in Sogang University, South Korea, and teaches courses on ‘early modern political thoughts’ and ‘money and property’.
Greta R. Krippner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her research interests span the history of capitalism, gender and sexuality, law, and political and social theory. Her current book project traces the long history of the individualization of risk in US society, asking how the notion that each individual should ‘pay the cost’ of their own riskiness emerged as a widely accepted normative principle governing how risk is distributed.
Andrey Korotayev has a doctor of philosophy (PhD), doctor of historical sciences, and is Director of the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, and chief research fellow at the Institute for African Studies, as well as the Institute of Oriental Studies, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. His main research interests include modern revolutions, Africa and the Middle East, political economy, political demography, quantitative analysis of sociopolitical instability and its factors, as well as mathematical modeling of the World System development. He is an author of more than 400 academic articles and 25 monographs, including ‘Great Divergence and Great Convergence. A Global Perspective’ (Cham: Springer Nature, 2015; with Leonid Grinin). His monograph ‘Introduction to Social Macrodynamics’ (Moscow: URSS, 2006; in collaboration with Artemy Malkov and Daria Khaltourina) has brought him an award of the Russian Science Support Foundation in ‘The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ nomination. In 2012, he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.
Yeon-Hwa Lee is a doctoral candidate of Sociology at SUNY Binghamton. Her research interests encompass sexuality, population, and the intersections of race, gender, and class in a global context. Her dissertation, Ideal Population: Postcolonial Construction of Gender, Race, and Reproduction in South Korea, investigates the roles of white supremacy, rural marginalization, and gender politics in shaping a fertility reduction campaign in South Korea.
Michael A. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His book Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. His forthcoming book is titled The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It).
Roberto J. Ortiz is assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Long Beach. He teaches courses on globalization, environmental sociology, and social theory. His current research project examines the history and ongoing expansion of the global oil industry, especially in relation to capital accumulation, uneven development, financialization, and the climate crises. He has published papers in Critical Historical Studies and Journal of World-Systems Research.
Gretchen Purser is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She is also the research director on advocacy and activism for PARCC, where she coordinates the Labor Studies Working Group. Purser’s scholarship focuses broadly on precarious work and the low-wage labor market as well as the reproduction and lived experience of urban poverty in the United States. She uses ethnographic and/or community-based research methods to explore the changing nature of work and workers’ movements, the housing struggles of the poor and the ground-level practices of neoliberal poverty management in the United States.
Cihan Tuğal is Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. His first book Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism (Stanford, 2009) studied pro-capitalist Islam and its popularization among the poor. In his second book The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism (Verso 2016), Tuğal analyzed Islamic movements and regimes in Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, and Iran. His third book Caring for the Poor (2017, Routledge) discusses liberalism’s uneasy relations with charitable ethics. Tuğal has also published research on American, Turkish, Eastern European, and South and Southeast Asian politics, eco-social dynamics, and social movements in scholarly journals, as well newspapers, political journals and print and e-magazines such as New Left Review, New York Times, Guardian, Jacobin, New Politics, OpenDemocracy, Specter, and Jadaliyya, and written extensively in Turkish. He is now working on a book on rightwing populist regimes across the non-advanced capitalist world.
Zachary R. Thomas is Adjunct Faculty of Social Sciences at Bergen Community College in New Jersey. Prior studies have focused on Neoliberalism, Critical Analysis of Economic Crises, and Political Macroeconomics. An active member of NPSA and APSA, he regularly seeks to present and collaborate on the intersection of Sociology, Economics, and Political Science.
Vadim Ustyuzhanin is a Research Fellow at the Center for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow, Russia. His field of research focuses on the analysis of revolutionary and protest dynamics, typology of revolutions, and global history. He is the author or co-author of 19 academic publications, including ‘Urbanization and revolutions: a quantitative analysis’ (2022), ‘Education and revolutions. Why do revolutionary uprisings take violent or nonviolent forms?’ (2022), or ‘Students and protests: a quantitative analysis’ (2023).
