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Name (Last/First) |
Affiliation / Profile | Research Interests |
| Abbot, Owen | Research Associate (Social Sciences), Cardiff University | Sociology of morality; Forgiveness; Social theory |
| Acevedo García, Marina | Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas | Sociology; Regional Studies; Karl Marx; Contemporary Theory |
| Alikhani, Behrouz | Professor, University of Münster | Democratization and de-democratization; Structural analysis of social inequalities; Process and figuration sociology; Sociology of knowledge; Political sociology; Social and political developments of modern Iran |
| Alimi, Eitan | Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Social movements; Contentious politics; Conflict resolution; Cultural dynamics of protest politics; Processes of radicalization; Political violence and terrorism; Media discourse and peacebuilding |
| Armbruster, André | Research Associate, University of Duisburg-Essen | Sociological theory; Practice, theorizing; Relational sociology; Sociology of religion; Organizational sociology; Sociology of violence |
| Avar, Adile Arslan | Associate Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology | Anthropology; Social theory and method; Urban theory; Urban political ecology |
| Babo, Thiago Ribeiro | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of São Paulo | Social theory; Political sociology; Historical sociology; Dynamics of war and peace |
| Barbosa, Letícia Cristina B. | Doctorate Researcher, Federal University of Santa Catarina | Transactional sociology; International relations and Latin America; Social movements; Social innovation; Social impact; Network analysis |
| Bateman, Tyler | PhD Candidate, University of Toronto | Environmental sociology; Relational sociology; Social practice theory; Cultural sociology; Mental health and social equity |
| Beaudoin, Christine | Doctoral Student, University of Ottawa | Applied environmental socio-anthropology; Mixed methodology; Socio-ecological systems and network analysis; Crafty sciences and knowledge ecologies; Anthropocene; Waterway collaboration and governance |
| Bertoni Unda, Carlotta Amalia | Professor, Autonomous University of Chiaspas | Commodity Chains; Anthropology of Borders; Economic Anthropology |
| Bichir, Renata Mirandola | Professor, University of São Paulo | Social policies; Poverty and inequalities; Conditional cash transfer programs; Urban policies |
| Bleicher, Alena | Researcher, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research | Dealing with nonknowledge in environmental management and technology development; Framing and role of the public in technology development; Governing technology development in the context of exploitation of primary and secondary repositories (economically strategic mineral resources); Geothermal energy – technological development and experimental practices within a new field of energy use. |
| Bongaerts, Gregor | Professor and Chair, University Duisburg-Essen | Theory of action; Field-theory of societal differentiation |
| Bueno, Arthur Oliveira | Lecturer, Research Fellow and Chair (Philosophy), Goethe University of Frankfurt | G. Simmel; Social Theory |
| Buys, Rebecca | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University | Gender and family violence; Social change via critical relationism; Forms of violence and practices of care |
| Cantó-Milà, Natàlia | Lecturer, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya | Sociological theory; Social philosophy; Sociology of the future, of emotions and of memory |
| Çeğin, Güney | Professor, Pamukkale University | Epistemology; Political sociology; Sociological history of Turkey; Classical sociological theory; Pierre Bourdieu; Relational reality |
| Challand, Benoit | Associate professor, Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York | Political sociology; Arab politics; civil society mobilization; foreign aid; Western European Marxism |
| Charalambos, Tsekeris | Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) | Digital sociology; Political sociology; Relational approaches in the social sciences; Reflexivity and the self; Human complex systems; Psychosocial networks |
| Cleland, Jamie | Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia | Sport and leisure; Communication; Abuse towards match officials; Gender; Sexuality/homophobia; Race; Active supporter mobilisations |
| Costa, Sérgio | Professor, Free University of Berlin | Racism and anti-racism; Living together in diversity; Social inequality; Postcolonial theories |
| Crossley, Nick | Professor, University of Manchester | Music worlds and sociology of music; Social networks and network analysis; Collective action; Social theory; Relational sociology |
| Darnhofer, Ika | Associate Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) | Decision-making on family farms; Resilience; Processual sociology; Relational sociology; New materialism |
| Davey, Christopher | Assistant Professor, Clarke University | African Great Lakes region; Climate violence; Genocide prevention; Conflict transformation; Identity formation; Narrative identity; Narrative employment; Postcolonialism; Relational sociology |
| Devries, Melody | Assistant Professor, Allegheny College | Politics of cottage-core content on Instagram and TikTok, conspiracies surrounding the effects of climate change, and the pragmatic function of contradiction to various ideologies and subcultures |
| Doering, Jan | Assistant Professor, McGill University | Race and ethnicity; Migration; Microsociology; Political sociology; Qualitative methods; Urban sociology |
| Dollereder, Lutz | Researcher, Leuphana University of Lüneburg | Music Education |
| Doucet, Andrea | Professor and Canada Research Chair (Gender, Work and Care), Brock University | Gender/work/care; Fatherhood and mothering; Masculinities; Parental leave policies; Embodiment; Reflexivity; Responsible knowing; Knowledge construction processes |
| Dudek, Michal | Research Associate, Jagiellonian University in Krakow | Sociology of law; Legal policy; Law communication and legal communication; Axiology of law; Theory and philosophy of law; Ethics and bioethics; Sociology of the body; Studies on disability; Animal studies; Biopolitics; Criminology; Philosophy (especially ontology); Contemporary political philosophy (especially multiculturalism); Philosophy of technology and studies of science and technology; Intercultural and intercultural communication; Semiotics; Visual communication; Legal geography |
| Dunning, Michael | Lecturer, University of Leicester | Norbert Elias; Violence; Terrorism |
| Eacott, Scott | Professor, University o New South Wales | Relational theory; How to best organize education; Relational Inquiry into the Provision of Education (RIPE) analytical framework; Interdisciplinary approach |
| Erikson, Emily | Fellowship Director and Professor, Yale University | Social networks; Economic development; Comparative historical sociology; Theory; Globalization |
| Farmer, Diane | Associate Chair, University of Toronto | Education; Children and youth; Francophone schools |
| Fernandez, Karina | Professor, Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark | Educational inequality; School culture; Research-led quality development; Youth sociology; Qualitative and mixed methods research |
| Frankel Pratt, Simon | Lecturer, University of Melbourne | International relations; Security; Counterterrorism; Social theory |
| Fuhse, Jan A. | Professor, University of Bremen | Relational sociology; Social networks; Discourse analytical approaches; Social inequality; Sociology of political systems; Mass-mediated communication; Science fiction |
| Gabriel, Norman | Senior Lecturer, University of Essex | Relational sociology; Relational psychoanalysis; Sociology of childhood; Norbert Elias;Multidisciplinary approach |
| Glasdam, Stinne | Senior Lecturer and Professor, Lund University | Sociological research in the medical field; Theoretically inspired by Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault; Qualitative research methods |
| Go, Julian | Professor, University of Chicago | Social logics, forms and impact of empires and colonialism; Postcolonial/decolonial thought and related questions of social theory; Epistemology and knowledge; Global historical sociology |
| Goodwin, John | Professor, University of Leicester | Youth transitions employment training schemes (YTS) underemployment and precarity; The sociology of Pearl Jephcott Norbert Elias and C Wright Mills; The social psychology of Milgram and Zimbardo; Auto/biographical data methods and analysis (correspondence film photographs biography social media art); The ‘reuse’ of ‘classic’ British empirical studies post 1940; Non-standard’ research methods and data source |
| Grisotti, Márcia | Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina | Health Sociology: Sociology and history of epidemics and medical knowledge; Social representations in health; Sociology of emerging infectious diseases, health and environmental policies |
| Hanson, Barbara | Professor, York University | Sociology; Law and justice; Aging; Women’s issues; Health; Theory |
| Hillcoat-Nalletamby, Sarah | Research Fellow, Swansea University | Living environments in later life; Housing preferences; Housing adaptations; Residential mobility; Intergenerational relations; Mixed-methods; Qualitative thematic analysis |
| Holzer, Boris | Professor, University of Konstanz | Sociological theory; Sociology of world society, historical and comparative sociology; Social networks; Political and economic sociology |
| Hughes, Jason | Professor, University of Leicester | Relational/processual sociology; Consumption and regulation; Sociological practice; Work, emotions and identity |
| Ivana, Greti-Iulia | Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow | Digital sociology; The political economy of digital trace data; Social studies of technology; Knowledge, particularly in relation with numbers and quantification; Emotions; Informal bonds and intimacy; Skilled migration; Sociological biographies; Social theory (social ontology and phenomenology) |
| Jancsics, David | Associate Professor, San Diego State University | Public management; Organizational theory; Economic sociology; Corruption; Informal practices; White-collar crime |
| Jimenez-Rivera, Victor | Junior Research Fellow, Tallinn University | |
| Kaspersen, Lars Bo | Professor, Copenhagen Business School | Civil society in the shadow of the state; New “growth regimes” and institutional competitiveness; The EU’s political economy; National branding and EU enlargement; The legalization of global corporate relationships; Civil society in the shadow of the state; The politics of comparison: When states compete in sport |
| Kivinen, Osmo | Professor and director of Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, RUSE, University of Turku, Finland | Methodological relationalism, pragmatism, sociology of education, sociology of science. |
| Klasche, Benjamin | Lecturer, Tallinn University | International Relations, social theory, political methodology, relationalism, and critical theories |
| Kuurne (Ketoviki), Kaisa | University Lecturer, University of Helsinki | Social theory; Relational sociology; Social bonds; Belonging and community; Family; Friendship; Intimacy; Urban sociology; Life vulnerability |
| Lacassagne, Aurélie | Associate Professor, Laurentian University | Social theories and international relations theories; Francophone immigration in Canada; Cultural studies and cultural policies; Motherhood; Identity politics; Franco-Ontarian culture, politics and identity |
| Lahire, Bernard | Professor, University of Lyon | Sociology of education, art and culture; Epistemology; Max Weber; Pierre Bourdieu |
| Lakatos, Zoltán | Assistant Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Social values; The sociology of economic development; The political economy of the media; Elite ideologies; Symbolic violence |
| Lenco, Peter | Independent Researcher | Process philosophy, sociology of youth, American pragmatism, open democracy. |
| Leschziner, Vanina | Associate Professor, University of Toronto | Social theory; Sociology of culture; Cognition; Organizations; Qualitative methods |
| Lietz, Haiko | GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Empirical test of White’s and Padgett’s sociological theory; Development of the identity concept; Networks: Social formations are dualities of connectivity and culture; Complexity: Social formations adapt to uncertainty at the edge of chaos; Computation: Social formations leave traces as digital behavioural data |
| Liu, Sida | Associate Professor, University of Toronto | Sociology of law; Organizations and professions; China’s legal reform and legal profession; Globalization of corporate law firms; Political mobilization of criminal defense lawyers; Feminization of judges; Career mobility of law practitioners; Social theory; Georg Simmel and the Chicago School of sociology; Criminal justice; Globalization |
| Lizardo, Omar | Professor and Chair, University of California | Empirical work: Cultural sociology, Historical sociology, Social movement studies, Culture and consumption studies, Cognitive sociology, Network science; Theoretical work: Classical and contemporary social theory, Link between practices, culture, cognition, and institutions |
| Lorenz, Stephan | Professor, Friedrich Schiller University Jena | Abundance; Consumption; Nutrition; Social ecology and sustainability; Poverty and exclusion; Qualitative methodology; Cultural sociology; Social theory |
| Loubere, Nicholas | Senior Lecturer, Lund University | Asian studies; Development studies; Rural development; China studies; Formulation and implementation of microcredit programmes for rural development in China; Financial inclusion initiatives; Digital financial penetration; Chinese migration to Ghana for informal, small-scale gold mining; Socioeconomic transformation in Ghana and China; Processes and patterns of migration; Flows of resource; Research methods; Fieldwork; Grounded, ethnographic, and/or participatory approaches |
| Mamas, Christoforos | Professor, University of California at San Diego | Early childhood studies and primary education; Inclusion, inclusive education and inclusive pedagogy; Special education; National and international perspectives on inclusion, disability and equality; Comparative and interdisciplinary studies; Transformative research; Sociometry, social network analysis and theory; Mixed methods approaches |
| Manterys, Aleksander | Professor, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences | Theoretical sociology; Microsociology; History of sociology; Social networks |
| Marlor, Chantelle | Associate Professor and Director (Culture, Media, and Society), University of the Fraser Valley | Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Knowledge |
| Marotta, Vince | Associate Professor, Deakin University | Social theory; Urban sociology; Immigration; Multiculturalism and cultural identity; Cosmopolitanism; Theories of the stranger |
| Marques, Eduardo Cesar Leão | Professor, University of São Paulo | Urban politics and policies; Inequalities; Housing precarity; Poverty |
| Matus López, Juliana | Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas | Local media and its actors; Electoral processes in Chiapas; Elections and the media; The social condition of journalists in Chiapas; Radios on the sidelines; Non-concession frequencies in Chiapas |
| McLevey, John | Professor, University of Waterloo | Computational social science; Social and cultural networks, diffusion; Generative models, Bayesian data analysis, agent-based simulation; Computational text analysis; Cultural cognition and affect, cultural learning, social influence, identity theory; Public opinion, polarization, and large-scale cultural change; Political and environmental sociology |
| Miglievich Ribeiro, Adelia Maria | Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo | Sociology of knowledge; History of social sciences and Latin American social thought; Critical, recognition, and postcolonial theory |
| Millward, Peter | Professor, Liverpool John Moores University | Contemporary sociology; Relational sociology; Cultural sociology; Digital divide; Sport sociology; Information and communication technology; Social movements; Broadcasting |
| Monterescu, Daniel | Professor, Central European University | Urban anthropology and food studies; Relational spatiality; Ethnically mixed cities; Israel/Palestine; Middle East; Jewish revival in Europe and North America; Masculinity studies |
| Morgner, Christian | Senior Lecturer, Scheffield University Management School | Complexity studies; Network analysis and creative practices; Diversity and inclusivity; Grand conceptual questions and methodological innovation in studying global cultural processes and innovations; Meaning-making; Global communication and culture; Relational constitution of meaning with regard to riots, field-changing events (media events, exhibitions, festivals, conferences), trust and construction of cultural objects |
| Naimi, Kevin | Assisant Professor, Lavel University | Sociology of education; Inequality and equity in education; Educational philosophy; Sociology of creativity and social reproduction in the school environment; Sociology of childhood and youth |
| Niska, Miira | University Lecturer, University of Helsinki | Entrepreneurship; Social psychology; Attitudes; Agency (Psychology) |
| Nogisto, Joonatan | Junior Research Fellow, Tallinn University | |
| O’Connor, Henrietta | Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head (Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities), University of Leicester | Sociology of work; Gender; Work and employment; Motherhood; Childcare decisions; Transitions to and from the labour market; Research methods |
| Olsen, Bent | Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | Educational sociology; Sociological approaches to professions and pre-school; Knowledge profiles within teacher training programmes; Tensions of exchange between educational practices, professional knowledge and educational theory (following Aristotle, Durkheim and Bourdieu); Educational discourses, their historical, societal and professional roots; Body and pedagogical practice; Social class, lifestyles and educational practice; Social differences in relation to the family, day-care, school and educational system; State, government and market; Knowledge and symbolic domination; Epistemology and the historical epistemology; School architecture and symbols |
| Paju, Elina | University of Helsinki | Children; Gender; Materiality |
| Palacios López, Bertha | Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas | Children; Culture; Literacy; Ethnography |
| Pantzerhielm, Laura | Research Associate, Dresden University of Technology | Human rights; Global health; International norms; Politics of knowledge; Discursive; Critical approaches to global politics |
| Papilloud, Christian | Professor and Chair, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) | Theorie of relation; German-French sociological theories; German-French scientific history; Cultural sociology; Sociology of knowledge; Quantitative analysis; Topic models; Semantic networks |
| Piazzesi, Chiara | Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Gender and sexualities; Classical sociological thought; Sociology of intimate relationships; Sociology of emotions; Sociology of social networks; Digital sociology; Sociological theory |
| Piiroinen, Tero | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku | Social theory; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of language; Philosophy of social science; Philosophy of American pragmatism; Sociology; Social psychology |
| Poopuu, Birgit | Associate Professor, Tallinn University | The role of radical and nonviolent knowledge and experience within international politics, with a focus on feminist and decolonial approaches to peace and conflict studies |
| Porpora, Douglas V. | Professor, Drexel University | Meaning; Morality; Politics; Religion; Social justice |
| Powell, Christopher | Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University | Complex systems theory; Relational sociology; Social transformation; Sociological theory; Genocide studies |
| Pyyhtinen, Olli | Professor, Tampere University | Social theory; Materiality; Waste; Circular Economy; Gift; Art and literature; More-than-human sociology; Relational sociology; Classical sociology |
| Rafanell, Irene | Lecturer, University of the West of Scotland | Sociology of the body; Social theory and theories of power (in particular Bourdieu and Foucault); Social constructionism and sociology of knowledge; Post-structuralist feminist theory (in particular on post-structuralist theorists such as Judith Butler); Sociology of sexuality |
| Roseneil, Sasha | Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Sussex | Intimate relationships; Citizenship; Social movements |
| Rutjes, Henriette | Researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ | Qualitative methods; Practice theory approach; Technology governance; Anticipative Governance, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) |
| Sánchez-Flores, Mónica J. | Associate Professor and Chair, Thompson Rivers University | Processes of racialization; Relational, embedded and expansive individuals; Cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism; Immigration and settlement experiences; Intersectionality, emotions and compassion in equity and diversity studies; Niklas Luhmann, Humberto Maturana and autopoiesis |
| Schmitz, Andreas | Privatdozent, University of Bonn | Methodologies and Methods: Digital process data & data quality of ‘Big Data’, Mixed methods, Social science, Relational methodologies and procedures (geometric data analysis, network analysis, discourse analysis), Generalized statistical models (causal analyses, finite mixed models, etc.) simulations; Theories: Relational social and societal theories (Simmel, Elias, Bourdieu, White, Latour), Theoretical and methodological development of habitus/field theory, Methodological implications of social and societal theories, On the role of quantification in sociological theories |
| Schneiderhan, Erik | Associate Professor and Associate Chair, University of Toronto | Political sociology; Pragmatist social theory; Understandings of creativity, habit, and social dilemmas; Genocide; Social Schemas |
| Schulz, Jeremy | Senior Research, University of California Berkeley | Digital media; Digital culture; Digital sociology; Qualitative and mixed research methods; The future of work; Mediated consumption |
| Selg, Peeter | Professor, Tallinn University | Relational social sciences (especially sociology, political science and governance); Wicked problems; Power; Political theory; Political semiotics; Post-structuralism; Methodology of the social sciences |
| Shobrook, Russell | Associate Programme Leader and Lecturer, University of Plymouth | Royal Navy; Educatioal Leadership |
| Silan, Wasiq | Assistant Professor, NDHU College of Indigenous Studies | Political science policies, gender, critical ethnography, long-term care, methodology of indigenous people |
| Silver, Daniel | Professor, University of Toronto | Social theory; Simmel, Parsons, Pragmatism; Urban sociology; Sociology of culture |
| Stamm, Isabell | Group Leader, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy | Economic and organizational sociology; Research of self-employment and entrepreneurship; Sociology of small groups; Life course and biographical research; Methods of empirical social research |
| Stoddart, Mark CJ | Professor, Memorial University | Environment and society; Social movements and political sociology; Communication and culture; Tourism, sport and recreation |
| Stokes, Allyson | Assistant Professor, Memorial University | Sociology of culture; Sociology of inequality; Sociology of gender; Cultural fields and inequalities among workers in music, film, and fashion |
| Taylor, Marshall A | Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University | Cognition and measurement in the sociology of culture; Cultural knowledge; Language; Computational and quantitative methods; (Semi)automated text analysis; Sociology of politics; Sociology of political movements |
| Toews, David | University of Groningen | Classical sociologist and philosopher, Gabriel Tarde; Qualitative methods; Understanding contemporary social life; Relational sociology |
| Tonkonoff, Sergio | Professor, University of Buenos Aires | Criminality; G. Tarde; Social psychology; Mass psychology; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Structuralism and post-structuralism |
| Traue, Boris | Professor, University of Luxembourg | Psychosocial and socio-educative interventions; The formation of the self; Collective action and the distribution of authority in the digital society; Visual and musical practices and interventions; Interpretive and participatory methodologies of the social science |
| Vandenberghe, Frédéric | Professor, Univesity of Erfurt | German social philosophy; Anglo-Saxon social theory; French sociological theory; Brazilian social thought |
| Veenstra, Gerry | Professor, University of British Columbia | How social class, socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic identity are associated with physical and mental health; Applying Bourdieu’s concepts – field, capital, habitus, doxa, etc. – to health-related practices and health outcomes in particular; Racial health inequalities in Canada; Intersectionality; Class bases of cultural phenomena |
| Ventsel, Andreas | Associate Professor, University of Tartu | Political semiotics; Semiotic analysis of online communication; Semiotics of culture; Poststructuralist discourse theory |
| Vertigans, Stephen | Professor, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen | Political violence; Corporate social responsibility; Area studies; Sociology of development |
| Walsh, Philip D. | Associate Professor, York University | Theoretical foundations of the social sciences; Hannah Arendt; Critical realism; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of emotions |
| Weiler, Vera | Associate Professor, National University of Colombia | Historical genetic research; Norbert Elias |
| Wieczorek, Oliver | Researcher, University of Kassel | Science research; Emergence, change and external relations; Computational social sciences; Topic modeling; Network analysis; Quantitative methods; Educational research; Sociological theory; Elite sociology |
| Winzler, Tim | University of Glasgow | Sociology of culture; Sociology of education and stratification; Historical sociology; Epistemology; Practical applications of Bourdieusian sociology |
| Wirthová, Jitka | Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences | Relational ontology; Post-foundationalist epistemology; Sociological theory; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of education; Normativity in education and policy; Legitimising practices; Emerging of a critical actor; Achieved agency |
| Woodrow, Jenna | Associate Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University | Epistemology; Feminist and Indigenous Epistemologies; Philosophy of Mind; Embodiment, Oppression and Agency; Philosophy of Language;Meta-Ethics (The Problem of Moral Luck); the Problem of Freewill and Determinism; Kant; Logic |