People in “Sociology”

• Asef Bayat

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Asef Bayat is Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and was formerly the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), and the ISIM Chair at…

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  Craig Calhoun

  Social Science Research Council

  Craig Calhoun has been President of the Social Science Research Council since 1999. He is also University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. His most recent book, Cosmopolitanism and Belonging, will be published in 2009.

• Nilüfer Göle

  École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

  Nilüfer Göle is professor of sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research focuses on forms of Islamic public visibility and questions of secularism. She is the author of The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling…

• Mark Jackson

  University of Bristol

  Mark Jackson is a lecturer in postcolonial geographies in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the intersections between social history, social theory, urban modernity, ethnography, and visual soci…

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  Eric Klinenberg

  Eric Klinenberg is Professor of Sociology, Public Policy, and Media, Culture, and Communications at New York University, and editor of Public Culture. His new book, Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone, will be pub…

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  Andrew Lakoff

  University of California, San Diego

  Andrew Lakoff is an assistant professor of sociology and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (2005) and coeditor of Global Pharmaceuticals:…

• Daniel Monterescu

  Central European University, Budapest

  Daniel Monterescu is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, and is Marie Curie Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. His interests include masculinity studies, binational…

• Jason Pine

  Purchase College, State University of New York

  Jason Pine teaches in the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School and the Department of Sociology at the University of Naples. He has a forthcoming article in the journal Law, Culture and the Humanities and is currently completing a…

• Deborah Posel

  Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research

  Deborah Posel is founding director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where she is also professor of sociology. Her publications include The Making of Apartheid, 1948 –1961…

• Rafael Sánchez

  New York University

  Rafael Sánchez teaches at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University. His publications focus on media, politics, populism, and spirit mediumship. His book Dancing Jacobins: A Genealogy of Latin American Populism is forth…

• George Steinmetz

  University of Michigan

  George Steinmetz is professor of sociology and German studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Regulating the Social: The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany (1993) and The Devil’s Handwriting: Precoloniality and the…

• Deena Weinstein

  DePaul University