Maria Appel Nissen
Ph.D. in Sociology, is Associate Professor in Social Work at Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research is focused on social work practice and knowledge, social policy and social work concerning vulnerable families, qualitative research and sociological analysis. She is the head of Bachelor in Social Work and Master in Knowledge Based Social Work and Editor of Nordic Social Work Research.
Mia Arp Fallov
Ph.D. in Sociology, is Associate Professor of Social Integration and Social Policy Strategies, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research covers welfare policy, urban sociology, social work, and social theory.
Vibeke Bak Nielsen
Ph.D., is a social worker and researcher in Social Work Studies. She is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research focuses on social work at a frontline perspective in relation to youth unemployment. The changes in social work during the last 20 years and the processes of change identified in citizenship responses to the erosion of solidarity in relation to political changes in the Nordic welfare state.
Cory Blad
Ph.D., is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Manhattan College. His work focuses on the impact of political economic change on nationalist politics and cultural political mobilization. His recent work includes “Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era” in Global Culture: Theories, Paradigms, Actions, edited by Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic (Brill, 2016) and “Course Corrections and Failed Rationales: How Comparative Advantage and Debt Are Used to Legitimate Austerity in Africa and Latin America” with Samuel Oloruntoba and Jon Shefner in Third World Quarterly (38:4, pp. 822–843, online 29 Feb. 2016).
Rossella Ciccia
Ph.D., is Lecturer in Social Policy at Queen’s University Belfast and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. Her research
Lukasz Czarnecki
Ph.D. in Political and Social Science from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Strasbourg, is a researcher at the University Program for Asian and African Studies (UNAM). His areas of research include inequalities and poverty in comparative perspective in Latin America, Asia and Africa. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI in Spanish), National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) in Mexico.
Ricardo A. Dello Buono
Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Manhattan College in New York City. His work has spanned across a broad range of social problems and the sociology of development, with a regional emphasis on Latin America. He is active in the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS), the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). He currently serves as Latin American and Caribbean Editor for the Sage journal Critical Sociology.
César Guzmán-Concha
Ph.D. in Sociology, is an independent researcher and consultant. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Center of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS), Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy. His research covers issues in comparative social movements, civil society and political participation, with a focus on the effects of activism on the policy-making process in sectors such as higher education, social assistance and unemployment benefits.
Jayne Malenfant
is a doctoral student in the department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, in Montréal, Canada. Her work has focused on youth, autonomy and activism in Canada, as well as informal education networks. She currently explores educational access for youth experiencing homelessness in the context of precarious labor markets.
Naomi Nichols
Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Montréal, Canada. Nichols’ research activities and
Frank Ridzi
Ph.D. in Sociology, Masters in Public Administration (MPA), is Associate Professor of Sociology at Le Moyne College and Vice President of Community Investment at the Central New York Community Foundation. His research covers public policy, philanthropy applied data analysis and nonprofits.
Pia Ringø
Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Work, is Associate Professor in Social Work at Aalborg University. She is a part of the research project ‘Views on Human Being in Social Work – Welfare Policies, Technologies and Knowledge’. Her research focuses on the connection between understandings of social problems, ontological models, neo-liberalism, knowledge and practice in social work with people within the fields of psychiatry and disability.
Delfino Vargas Chanes
Ph.D., is Professor of Development Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He received his Doctorate in Sociology from Iowa State University (ISU), and his master’s degrees in Sociology and Statistics (ISU) and Bachelor of Mathematics (UNAM). He is registered in the National System of Researchers, Level II, his areas include the study of inequality, poverty and advanced methodologies for social research.