Rogers Brubaker is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he holds the UCLA Foundation Chair. He has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, ethnicity, and religion. His most recent book is Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities (Princeton 2016). He is currently working on the pan-European and trans-Atlantic populist conjuncture.
Nate Ela has a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a JD from Harvard University. A visiting researcher at the American Bar Foundation, he will lecture at Northwestern University Law School in 2019. His research examines historical and contemporary experiments with law, social policy, and democracy in US cities, as well as the politics of international human rights. Recent works have appeared in Law & Social Inquiry and the Fordham Urban Law Journal.
Brad Epperly is an assistant professor of political science at the University of South Carolina. His work on post-communism and judicial politics has appeared in various journals and edited volumes, including Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and Global Perspectives on the Rule of Law.
David González Agudo is a Research and Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia. His main area of research is economic history, with a focus on the reconstruction of economic and demographic variables in early modern Spain. He is author of “Housing and the Cost of Living in Early Modern Toledo” (2014), with Mauricio Drelichman, in Explorations in Economic History, and is working on a book about the economic situation in early modern Toledo.
Philip Gorski is professor of sociology at Yale University, where he directs the Critical Realism Network. Gorski research and writing focuses on religion and politics in comparative and historical perspective and on theory and method in social science. His most recent book is American Covenant (Princeton 2017).
Matthias Koenig is professor of sociology at the University of Göttingen and Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He held visiting positions at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, the University of Toronto, and the University of Michigan. He has published widely on sociological theory, human rights, religion, and immigrant integration. His current research focuses on constitutional models of minority rights in global comparative perspective and on religious mobilization in transnational legal arenas.
Damon Mayrl is assistant professor of sociology at Colby College, where he studies the interplay of religion, politics, culture, and history. He is the author of Secular Conversions: Political Institutions and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800–2000 (Cambridge University Press 2016). His current research projects examine how symbolic conflicts affect the form and visibility of the American state and the practice of historical methods in social scientific research.
Ann Morning is an associate professor of sociology at New York University whose research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of racial difference. She is the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (University of California Press 2011), and most recently, “Kaleidoscope: Contested Identities and New Forms of Race Membership” (Ethnic and Racial Studies 2017).
Rory Pilossof is a historian of southern Africa, a senior lecturer in the Economics Department at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and a visiting research fellow with the School of History at the University of Kent. He has recently published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, Africa, Journal of Labor History, and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He published his monograph in 2012, The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Farmers’ Voices from Zimbabwe. He is currently the PI on a British Academy–funded Advanced Newton Fellowship project.
Gary Rivett is a historian of early modern Britain, a lecturer in history at York St. John University, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. His work has recently appeared in Media History and the collection Civil War and Narrative: Testimony, Historiography, Memory. He is completing his first book, Conflicted Pasts: Parliament and Historical Culture in Civil War England, c. 1640–1650, is director of the oral history and archive project “Stories of Activism in Sheffield, 1960–Present,” and co-author of the forthcoming You Can’t Kill the Spirit: The Story of the Houghton Main Pit Camp, 1993.
Francine Sanders Romero is associate professor of public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Much of her work focuses on civil rights advances of the entire twentieth century, in both north and south, from a legal/institutional perspective. A forthcoming article, “Immigration Restrictions of the Progressive Era” examines determinants of US Senate decision making. Recent articles extend the institutional perspective to land use, including “San Antonio’s Edwards Aquifer Protection Program: Review and Analysis” and “Challenges of Open Space Preservation.”
Yu Sasaki is an assistant professor in the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University. His research examines why some ethnic groups consolidate their cultural practices earlier than others and makes new data sets to document statistical evidence. It addresses various dimensions of this process, including language standardization among European ethnic groups from 1400 to 2000. His publications include “Publishing Nations: Technology Acquisition and Language Standardization for European Ethnic Groups,” Journal of Economic History (2017).
Volker H. Schmidt is professor of sociology at the National University of Singapore. His main areas of research are justice and inequality, social and health policy, social theory, and global social change. His latest book, Global Modernity: A Conceptual Sketch, was published in 2014. He is currently working on a sequel tentatively titled World Society.
