Dr. Stephen Vaisey is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Duke University. The main goal of his research is to understand moral and political beliefs: what they are, where they come from, and what they do. He pursues these questions in the broader interdisciplinary context of cultural evolution. More»
Dr. Orna Donath is a sociologist, lecturer, writer and feminist activist. She teaches at Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurion University, and the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Her field of study focuses on the social expectations projected on women, both those who are mothers and those who are not, especially by choice. She is the author of Regretting Motherhood: A Study. More»
Nandita Bajaj is the Executive Director of Population Balance, a US nonprofit that works to inspire narrative, behavioral, and system change that shrinks our human impact and elevates the rights and wellbeing of people, animals, and the planet. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Humane Education at Antioch University. More»
Dr. David Calnitsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. His research interests include sociological theory, social policy, and poverty, and his empirical work has examined the impact of basic income on a range of outcomes, from wages and work to social stigma and gender dynamics. More recently, he has been doing research on the welfare state, collective action, and social change. A new book project examines how social change succeeds and fails. A second book project (with Michael McCarthy) analyzes and reconstructs the social theory of Erik Olin Wright. More»
Dr. Alberto Acerbi is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. He is a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist with a particular interest in computational science. He is the author of “Tecnopanico. Media digitali, tra ragionevoli cautele e paure ingiustificate” (“Technopanic: Digital Media, Between Reasonable Caution and Unjustified Fears”). More»
Dr. Gail Dines is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Dines specializes in the study of pornography. She is CEO of Culture Reframed, a non-profit built to build resilience and resistance in kinds to pornography and hypersexualized media. created to address pornography as a public-health crisis. She is the author of Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. More»
Louis Bachaud is a PhD student at the University of Kent and the University of Lille. His research investigates the history and sociology of science. In particular, he studies the contemporary (mis)understandings of evolutionary sciences and their appropriations in online debates around sex and gender. More»
Dr. Philip Cohen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. His research and teaching concern families and inequality. He writes about demographic trends, family structure, the division of labor, health disparities, and open science. He is the author of the popular textbook, The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change. More»
Dr. Mark Rank is Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Rank is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts and speakers on issues of poverty, inequality, and social justice. He is the author of several books, the latest one being The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us. More»
Dr. Tibor Rutar is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, Researcher at the Center for the Study of Post-Socialist Societies in Maribor, and Researcher at the Research Center for Strategy and Governance at the University of Ljubljana. His last two books are Rational Choice and Democratic Government: A Sociological Approach (Routledge, 2021) and Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Routledge, 2022). More»
