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Name (Last/First)
Abbot, Owen
Affiliation / Profile	Research Associate (Social Sciences), Cardiff University
Research Interests	Sociology of morality; Forgiveness; Social theory
Acevedo García, Marina
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas
Research Interests	Sociology; Regional Studies; Karl Marx; Contemporary Theory
Alikhani, Behrouz
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Münster
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research Interests	Social movements; Contentious politics; Conflict resolution; Cultural dynamics of protest politics; Processes of radicalization; Political violence and terrorism; Media discourse and peacebuilding
Armbruster, André
Affiliation / Profile	Research Associate, University of Duisburg-Essen
Research Interests	Sociological theory; Practice, theorizing; Relational sociology; Sociology of religion; Organizational sociology; Sociology of violence
Avar, Adile Arslan
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, Izmir Institute of Technology
Research Interests	Anthropology; Social theory and method; Urban theory; Urban political ecology
Babo, Thiago Ribeiro
Affiliation / Profile	Postdoctoral Fellow, University of São Paulo
Research Interests	Social theory; Political sociology; Historical sociology; Dynamics of war and peace
Barbosa, Letícia Cristina B.
Affiliation / Profile	Doctorate Researcher, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Research Interests	Transactional sociology; International relations and Latin America; Social movements; Social innovation; Social impact; Network analysis
Bateman, Tyler
Affiliation / Profile	PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
Research Interests	Environmental sociology; Relational sociology; Social practice theory; Cultural sociology; Mental health and social equity
Beaudoin, Christine
Affiliation / Profile	Doctoral Student, University of Ottawa
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Autonomous University of Chiaspas
Research Interests	Commodity Chains; Anthropology of Borders; Economic Anthropology
Bichir, Renata Mirandola
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of São Paulo
Research Interests	Social policies; Poverty and inequalities; Conditional cash transfer programs; Urban policies
Bleicher, Alena
Affiliation / Profile	Researcher, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor and Chair, University Duisburg-Essen
Research Interests	Theory of action; Field-theory of societal differentiation
Bueno, Arthur Oliveira
Affiliation / Profile	Lecturer, Research Fellow and Chair (Philosophy), Goethe University of Frankfurt
Research Interests	G. Simmel; Social Theory
Buys, Rebecca
Affiliation / Profile	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University
Research Interests	Gender and family violence; Social change via critical relationism; Forms of violence and practices of care
Cantó-Milà, Natàlia
Affiliation / Profile	Lecturer, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Research Interests	Sociological theory; Social philosophy; Sociology of the future, of emotions and of memory
Çeğin, Güney
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Pamukkale University
Research Interests	Epistemology; Political sociology; Sociological history of Turkey; Classical sociological theory; Pierre Bourdieu; Relational reality
Challand, Benoit
Affiliation / Profile	Associate professor, Sociology, The New School for Social Research, New York
Research Interests	Political sociology; Arab politics; civil society mobilization; foreign aid; Western European Marxism
Charalambos, Tsekeris
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Research Fellow, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE)
Research Interests	Digital sociology; Political sociology; Relational approaches in the social sciences; Reflexivity and the self; Human complex systems; Psychosocial networks
Cleland, Jamie
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia
Research Interests	Sport and leisure; Communication; Abuse towards match officials; Gender; Sexuality/homophobia; Race; Active supporter mobilisations
Costa, Sérgio
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Free University of Berlin
Research Interests	Racism and anti-racism; Living together in diversity; Social inequality; Postcolonial theories
Crossley, Nick
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Manchester
Research Interests	Music worlds and sociology of music; Social networks and network analysis; Collective action; Social theory; Relational sociology
Darnhofer, Ika
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU)
Research Interests	Decision-making on family farms; Resilience; Processual sociology; Relational sociology; New materialism
Davey, Christopher
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, Clarke University
Research Interests	African Great Lakes region; Climate violence; Genocide prevention; Conflict transformation; Identity formation; Narrative identity; Narrative employment; Postcolonialism; Relational sociology
Devries, Melody
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, Allegheny College
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, McGill University
Research Interests	Race and ethnicity; Migration; Microsociology; Political sociology; Qualitative methods; Urban sociology
Dollereder, Lutz
Affiliation / Profile	Researcher, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Research Interests	Music Education
Doucet, Andrea
Affiliation / Profile	Professor and Canada Research Chair (Gender, Work and Care), Brock University
Research Interests	Gender/work/care; Fatherhood and mothering; Masculinities; Parental leave policies; Embodiment; Reflexivity; Responsible knowing; Knowledge construction processes
Dudek, Michal
Affiliation / Profile	Research Associate, Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Lecturer, University of Leicester
Research Interests	Norbert Elias; Violence; Terrorism
Eacott, Scott
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University o New South Wales
Research Interests	Relational theory; How to best organize education; Relational Inquiry into the Provision of Education (RIPE) analytical framework; Interdisciplinary approach
Erikson, Emily
Affiliation / Profile	Fellowship Director and Professor,  Yale University
Research Interests	Social networks; Economic development; Comparative historical sociology; Theory; Globalization
Farmer, Diane
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Chair, University of Toronto
Research Interests	Education; Children and youth; Francophone schools
Fernandez, Karina
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Pädagogische Hochschule Steiermark
Research Interests	Educational inequality; School culture; Research-led quality development; Youth sociology; Qualitative and mixed methods research
Frankel Pratt, Simon
Affiliation / Profile	Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Research Interests	International relations; Security; Counterterrorism; Social theory
Fuhse, Jan A.
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Bremen
Research Interests	Relational sociology; Social networks; Discourse analytical approaches; Social inequality; Sociology of political systems; Mass-mediated communication; Science fiction
Gabriel, Norman
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Lecturer, University of Essex
Research Interests	Relational sociology; Relational psychoanalysis; Sociology of childhood; Norbert Elias;Multidisciplinary approach
Glasdam, Stinne
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Lecturer and Professor, Lund University
Research Interests	Sociological research in the medical field; Theoretically inspired by Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault; Qualitative research methods
Go, Julian
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Chicago
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Leicester
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, York University
Research Interests	Sociology; Law and justice; Aging; Women’s issues; Health; Theory
Hillcoat-Nalletamby, Sarah
Affiliation / Profile	Research Fellow, Swansea University
Research Interests	Living environments in later life; Housing preferences; Housing adaptations; Residential mobility; Intergenerational relations; Mixed-methods; Qualitative thematic analysis
Holzer, Boris
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Konstanz
Research Interests	Sociological theory; Sociology of world society, historical and comparative sociology; Social networks; Political and economic sociology
Hughes, Jason
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Leicester
Research Interests	Relational/processual sociology; Consumption and regulation; Sociological practice; Work, emotions and identity
Ivana, Greti-Iulia
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, San Diego State University
Research Interests	Public management; Organizational theory; Economic sociology; Corruption; Informal practices; White-collar crime
Jimenez-Rivera, Victor
Affiliation / Profile	Junior Research Fellow, Tallinn University
Research Interests
Kaspersen, Lars Bo
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor and director of Research Unit for the Sociology of Education, RUSE, University of Turku, Finland
Research Interests	Methodological relationalism, pragmatism, sociology of education, sociology of science.
Klasche, Benjamin
Affiliation / Profile	Lecturer, Tallinn University
Research Interests	International Relations, social theory, political methodology, relationalism, and critical theories
Kuurne (Ketoviki), Kaisa
Affiliation / Profile	University Lecturer, University of Helsinki
Research Interests	Social theory; Relational sociology; Social bonds; Belonging and community; Family; Friendship; Intimacy; Urban sociology; Life vulnerability
Lacassagne, Aurélie
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, Laurentian University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Lyon
Research Interests	Sociology of education, art and culture; Epistemology; Max Weber; Pierre Bourdieu
Lakatos, Zoltán
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Research Interests	Social values; The sociology of economic development; The political economy of the media; Elite ideologies; Symbolic violence
Lenco, Peter
Affiliation / Profile	Independent Researcher
Research Interests	Process philosophy, sociology of youth, American pragmatism, open democracy.
Leschziner, Vanina
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Research Interests	Social theory; Sociology of culture; Cognition; Organizations; Qualitative methods
Lietz, Haiko
Affiliation / Profile	GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor and Chair, University of California
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Research Interests	Abundance; Consumption; Nutrition; Social ecology and sustainability; Poverty and exclusion; Qualitative methodology; Cultural sociology; Social theory
Loubere, Nicholas
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Lecturer, Lund University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of California at San Diego
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Research Interests	Theoretical sociology; Microsociology; History of sociology; Social networks
Marlor, Chantelle
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor and Director (Culture, Media, and Society), University of the Fraser Valley
Research Interests	Sociology of Culture; Sociology of Knowledge
Marotta, Vince
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, Deakin University
Research Interests	Social theory; Urban sociology; Immigration; Multiculturalism and cultural identity; Cosmopolitanism; Theories of the stranger
Marques, Eduardo Cesar Leão
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of São Paulo
Research Interests	Urban politics and policies; Inequalities; Housing precarity; Poverty
Matus López, Juliana
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Waterloo
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Federal University of Espírito Santo
Research Interests	Sociology of knowledge; History of social sciences and Latin American social thought; Critical, recognition, and postcolonial theory
Millward, Peter
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Liverpool John Moores University
Research Interests	Contemporary sociology; Relational sociology; Cultural sociology; Digital divide; Sport sociology; Information and communication technology; Social movements; Broadcasting
Monterescu, Daniel
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Central European University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Lecturer, Scheffield University Management School
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Assisant Professor, Lavel University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	University Lecturer, University of Helsinki
Research Interests	Entrepreneurship; Social psychology; Attitudes; Agency (Psychology)
Nogisto, Joonatan
Affiliation / Profile	Junior Research Fellow, Tallinn University
Research Interests
O’Connor, Henrietta
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head (Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities), University of Leicester
Research Interests	Sociology of work; Gender; Work and employment; Motherhood; Childcare decisions; Transitions to and from the labour market; Research methods
Olsen, Bent
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	University of Helsinki
Research Interests	Children; Gender; Materiality
Palacios López, Bertha
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Autonomous University of Chiapas
Research Interests	Children; Culture; Literacy; Ethnography
Pantzerhielm, Laura
Affiliation / Profile	Research Associate, Dresden University of Technology
Research Interests	Human rights; Global health; International norms; Politics of knowledge; Discursive; Critical approaches to global politics
Papilloud, Christian
Affiliation / Profile	Professor and Chair, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)
Research Interests	Theorie of relation; German-French sociological theories; German-French scientific history; Cultural sociology; Sociology of knowledge; Quantitative analysis; Topic models; Semantic networks
Piazzesi, Chiara
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Research Interests	Gender and sexualities; Classical sociological thought; Sociology of intimate relationships; Sociology of emotions; Sociology of social networks; Digital sociology; Sociological theory
Piiroinen, Tero
Affiliation / Profile	Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Turku
Research Interests	Social theory; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of language; Philosophy of social science; Philosophy of American pragmatism; Sociology; Social psychology
Poopuu, Birgit
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, Tallinn University
Research Interests	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.
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Drexel University
Research Interests	Meaning; Morality; Politics; Religion; Social justice
Powell, Christopher
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Research Interests	Complex systems theory; Relational sociology; Social transformation; Sociological theory; Genocide studies
Pyyhtinen, Olli
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Tampere University
Research Interests	Social theory; Materiality; Waste; Circular Economy; Gift; Art and literature; More-than-human sociology; Relational sociology; Classical sociology
Rafanell, Irene
Affiliation / Profile	Lecturer, University of the West of Scotland
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Sussex
Research Interests	Intimate relationships; Citizenship; Social movements
Rutjes, Henriette
Affiliation / Profile	Researcher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Research Interests	Qualitative methods; Practice theory approach; Technology governance; Anticipative Governance, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
Sánchez-Flores, Mónica J.
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor and Chair, Thompson Rivers University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Privatdozent, University of Bonn
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor and Associate Chair, University of Toronto
Research Interests	Political sociology; Pragmatist social theory; Understandings of creativity, habit, and social dilemmas; Genocide; Social Schemas
Schulz, Jeremy
Affiliation / Profile	Senior Research, University of California Berkeley
Research Interests	Digital media; Digital culture; Digital sociology; Qualitative and mixed research methods; The future of work; Mediated consumption
Selg, Peeter
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Tallinn University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Programme Leader and Lecturer, University of Plymouth
Research Interests	Royal Navy; Educatioal Leadership
Silan, Wasiq
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, NDHU College of Indigenous Studies
Research Interests	Political science policies, gender, critical ethnography, long-term care, methodology of indigenous people
Silver, Daniel
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Toronto
Research Interests	Social theory; Simmel, Parsons, Pragmatism; Urban sociology; Sociology of culture
Stamm, Isabell
Affiliation / Profile	Group Leader, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Memorial University
Research Interests	Environment and society; Social movements and political sociology; Communication and culture; Tourism, sport and recreation
Stokes, Allyson
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, Memorial University
Research Interests	Sociology of culture; Sociology of inequality; Sociology of gender; Cultural fields and inequalities among workers in music, film, and fashion
Taylor, Marshall A
Affiliation / Profile	Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	University of Groningen
Research Interests	Classical sociologist and philosopher, Gabriel Tarde; Qualitative methods; Understanding contemporary social life; Relational sociology
Tonkonoff, Sergio
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Buenos Aires
Research Interests	Criminality; G. Tarde; Social psychology; Mass psychology; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; Structuralism and post-structuralism
Traue, Boris
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of Luxembourg
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Univesity of Erfurt
Research Interests	German social philosophy; Anglo-Saxon social theory; French sociological theory; Brazilian social thought
Veenstra, Gerry
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, University of British Columbia
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, University of Tartu
Research Interests	Political semiotics; Semiotic analysis of online communication; Semiotics of culture; Poststructuralist discourse theory
Vertigans, Stephen
Affiliation / Profile	Professor, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen
Research Interests	Political violence; Corporate social responsibility; Area studies; Sociology of development
Walsh, Philip D.
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, York University
Research Interests	Theoretical foundations of the social sciences; Hannah Arendt; Critical realism; Sociology of knowledge; Sociology of emotions
Weiler, Vera
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Professor, National University of Colombia
Research Interests	Historical genetic research; Norbert Elias
Wieczorek, Oliver
Affiliation / Profile	Researcher, University of Kassel
Research Interests	Science research; Emergence, change and external relations; Computational social sciences; Topic modeling; Network analysis; Quantitative methods; Educational research; Sociological theory; Elite sociology
Winzler, Tim
Affiliation / Profile	University of Glasgow
Research Interests	Sociology of culture; Sociology of education and stratification; Historical sociology; Epistemology; Practical applications of Bourdieusian sociology
Wirthová, Jitka
Affiliation / Profile	Researcher, Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Research Interests	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
Affiliation / Profile	Associate Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Research Interests	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

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