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(CCS Workshop Co-Convenor & CCS Visiting Fellow, September 2018 - September 2019)
Natalie B. Aviles is a Yale University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Co-Convener of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) Workshop for AY 2018-2019. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology & Science Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2016. She specializes in Sociological Theory, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Cultural Sociology, Science and Innovation Policy, and Sociology of Health Care.
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 Mervyn Horgan, University of Guelph, Canada
(CCS Visiting Fellow, September 2018 -June 2019)
Mervyn Horgan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph, Canada. His main interest is in the making and breaking of solidarity, with particular attention to everyday life in complex multicultural societies. This interest animates his current research on convivial and uncivil encounters between strangers in urban public spaces (supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). He is also interested in the cultural dynamics of rapid economic transformation, sociological engagement with the recognition debates in political theory, representational strategies in cultural nationalism, and blind spots in social science history. His research has appeared in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Visual Studies, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Intercultural Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others, as well as in numerous edited collections.
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 Rui Gao, Beijing Foreign Studies University
(CCS Visiting Fellow, December 2018 - December 2019)
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 Xi She, China Agricultural University, Beijing
(CCS Postdoctoral Fellow, February -August 2019)
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 Zhuojun Zhang, Fudan University, China
Zhuojun Zhang received her B.A. in sociology, a Masters in Education, and is now a doctoral candidate at Department of Sociology, Fudan University. Interested in cultural sociology, her academic interests are mainly about identity, symbolic boundaries and cultural process. By studying anti-GMO groups, her recent research is about how identity influences social actors’ attitude-formation and decision-making. Her doctoral dissertation is “Rediscover The Meaning of Work: Meaning’s Typification and its Cultural Process”. (CCS Visiting Graduate Student, September-September 2019 - CCS Yale/Fudan Exchange)
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 Emily Campbell, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Emily B. Campbell is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her dissertation, “Grief, Care and Politics in the American Opioid Crisis,” examines the role of grief as a politically significant social process. She specializes in political sociology, race and ethnicity, the sociology of human rights, drugs and society and transnational sociology. (CCS Visiting Graduate Student, April 1 - June 30, 2019)
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 Helena Funk, Leipzig University, Germany
Helena Funk is a current M.A. candidate in African Studies (Leipzig University, Germany), and an Exchange Scholar at the CCS in 2018/19. Her planned M.A. thesis examines diverse language use and its cultural implications in the middle-class of Nairobi. She will conduct field research in Nairobi, analyzing language use and identity within the growing Kenyan middle-class. Her research interests cover Cultural Sociology, Analysis of Social Structures, Urban Studies, Sociolinguistics and Swahili Studies.
Helena earned her B.A. in Applied African Studies at Bayreuth University, Germany, in the field of Development Sociology. She worked as a student research assistant for the subproject “Middle-Classes on the Rise” at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (2015-2018) where she collaborated with Dieter Neubert and former CCS-Fellow Florian Stoll. (Visiting Exchange Student, September 2018-June 2019)
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 Tálisson Melo de Souza, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tálisson Melo is a visual artist and Ph.D. student in Sociology and Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His research is about art exhibitions amid the political transitions that took place in South American countries during the 1980s, approaching the role of art critics, curators and diplomats in organizing the São Paulo International Art Biennial. Tálisson received a Master’s degree in Art History from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, in 2015, on the emergence of authorial curatorship in Brazil’s public sphere. He has developed parts of his research in different institutions in South America (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay), and he has been collaborating with Artl@s (ENS Paris, France) - a project on art exhibitions history. His research interests are art exhibitions, curating, art criticism, and political transition in South America. (CCS Visiting Graduate Student, October 2018-April 2019)
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 Josetxo Beriain, State University of Navarre, Spain
(CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow, September 2018 - December 2018)
Born in Spain in 1959, from Navarrese parents. B. A. in Sociology and Philosophy in the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 1984. M. A. in Sociology at the New School University, New York, 1986, and PH. D. in Sociology at the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, 1987. Actually, Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Pública de Navarra in Pamplona, since 1990 and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University since 2013. He has been Research Assistant at the New School University in New York and Visiting Scholar at the Universität Bielefeld (Germany), at the Freie Universität Berlin, at the Center for European Studies of the Harvard University, at the Colegio de México in México D. F., at the Universidad del País Vasco in San Sebastián, at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in El Salvador, at the Universidad Iberoamericana de México D. F. y de Puebla, at the UNAM and at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, at the Berkley Center of the Georgetown University and at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
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Dominik Zelinsky is a PhD researcher in the department of sociology at the University of Edinburgh, where he moved after earning a master’s degree from Masaryk University in Brno. His research interests lie in the areas of social theory, cultural sociology, sociology of literature and the arts. He currently develops dissertation which studies the phenomenon of unofficial philosophy seminars in communist Czechoslovakia. (CCS Visiting Graduate Student, September-December 2018)
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Bingxin Zhao is a Ph.D. Candidate at Harbin Engineering University in China. Her doctoral dissertation is “Weber and Chinese culture”. In the paper, she will try to derive Weber’s penetrating judgments and methodologies, meanwhile to make some response to his misreading of Chinese culture. She is also a member of the National Social Sciences Fund Projects “Max Weber and Chinese culture” in the charge of her supervisor Prof. Guoxun Su, and does the part of political sociology. Her research interests are comparative study of Chinese and Western culture, social theory and political sociology. (CCS Visiting Graduate Student, October 2017-October 2018)
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