Iddo Tavory is Professor of sociology at NYU, and a theorist of culture and interaction. His book projects span methodological work on "Abductive Analysis" (with Stefan Timmermans), ethnographic research on religion, identity and social worlds, and work on the relationship among modes of worth in cultural production (with Sonia Prelat and Shelly Ronen). Iddo has just finished writing a theoretical manuscript on "the situation," as well as developing projects on taste, morality and climate change. Among other awards, Iddo has received the Lewis A. Coser Award for theoretical agenda setting in sociology.
Mette Andersson's research has focused on various aspects of migration-related diversity, covering themes such as identity work, racialization, transnationalism, and political engagement—bridging the fields of cultural and political sociology. Theoretically, she has drawn inspiration from phenomenological, interactional, and critical theory, utilizing frameworks related to social imaginaries, critical events, stigma, nationalism, identities, and the Black Atlantic.
Andersson's Ph.D. research on identity work among ethnic minority youth in urban settings during the 1990s was a pioneering project that informed subsequent studies on this theme in Norway. Additionally, her work on racial imaginaries and nationalism in sport during the 2000s was among the first research projects to examine the intersection between race and Norwegian identity in Norwegian social science.
Subsequently, Mette Andersson has conducted research on the transmittance of religion across generations, political mobilization among first-generation Europeans, theorizing in sociology, and research communication among migration scholars. Her current research focuses on Norwegian antiracism, where she explores how identity dilemmas, traveling concepts, and memorials are discussed and enacted within a loosely organized and diverse antiracist movement.
Davina Cooper is a Research Professor in the Law School of King’s College London. Her work has two main interlinked strands: concepts, radical conceptual methods, and conceptual reimagining; and governance by state and non-state bodies at the borders of liberal legitimacy. Conflicts over gender, religion, sexuality, belonging, and property are key themes in her work. She is the author of seven books, including Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces, Feeling like a State: Desire, Denial and the Recasting of Authority, and a forthcoming book also from Duke UP (published this autumn) on conceptual activism. She led the ERSC funded research project, The Future of Legal Gender, directed the AHRC Research Centre on Law, Gender & Sexuality, was a London magistrate, and an elected member of local government during 1980s municipal radicalism. She is currently working on the political possibilities of contemporary utopianism.
Siniša Malešević is a Full Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at the University College, Dublin and a Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris, France. He is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea. His recent books include Nationalism as a Way of Life: The Rise and Transformation of Modern Subjectivities (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and The Rise of Organised Brutality: A Historical Sociology of Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2017) He is a recipient of several international book awards. Prof. Malešević has also authored over 140 journal articles and book chapters and 9 edited volumes. His work has been translated into 14 languages.