Visiting Fellows ~ 2019 -2020

Jongruul ChoiJongryul Choi, Keimyung University, Korea

Professor of sociology at Keimyung University (South Korea). He works in the areas of cultural sociology, social/cultural theory, and qualitative methodology. He is the author of Sociology of Performance: How Does Korean Society Reflect on Itself? (2019), Sociology of Bokagwang: The Cries of Korean Local Youth (2018), The Uses of Multiculturalism: A Cultural Sociological Perspective (2016), Strangers of Globalization: Sexuality, Labor, and Deterritorialization (2013), Cultural Turn in Sociology: Classical Sociology, Revitalized from Science to Aesthetics (2009), The Postmodern American Sociology: A Response to Aethetic Challehge (2004). (Visiting Faculty Fellow, August 31, 2019 - January 31, 2020)

Nelson Arteaga BotelloNelson Arteaga Botello, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México

Nelson Arteaga Botello, is a professor of sociology at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Mexico). His fields of research are violence, video surveillance in urban spaces, sociological theory, and cultural sociology. In 2005 he won the 5th Ibero-American Social Sciences Award granted by the Institute of Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2011. His publication include “ ‘It Was the State’: the Trauma of the Enforced Disappearance of Students in Mexico,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (32) 2019: 337-355,  “The Civil Sphere in Mexico: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism,” (with Javier Arzuaga) in The Civil Sphere in Latin America, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Carlo Tognato (Cambridge University Press, 2018), “Mexico: Internal Security, surveillance, and authoritarianism,” Surveillance & Society, 15(3) 2017: 491-49. He has coedited (with Carlo Tognato) Sociedad, cultura y la esfera civil: una agenda de sociología cultural, (Flacso, 2019).  (CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow, September 1, 2019 -August 31, 2020)

Rui GaoRui Gao, Beijing Foreign Studies University

(CCS Visiting Fellow, December 2018 - December 2019)

She XiXi She, China Agricultural University, Beijing

(CCS Postdoctoral Fellow, February -August 2019)

Emily CampbellEmily Campbell, College of the Holy Cross

  (CCS Research Associate, September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020)

Luz Angela Cardona AcuñaLuz Angela Cardona Acuña, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences of Mexico

Luz Angela Cardona Acuña is a P.h.D in Sociology from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences of Mexico. In her dissertation, she analyzes the impact of social and socio-state interactions on legal changes on sexual diversity in Peru and Ecuador from 1980 to 2018. She is interested in deepening the relationships between cultural, processual and relational sociologies, and in comparative studies. Her fields of research are the relationships between the state and social actors, human rights, legal change, corruption, and sexual diversity. (CCS Visiting Researcher, November 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020)

Lily IvanovaLily Ivanova, University of British Columbia

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, September 15, 2019 - June 15, 2020)

Sandra SimonsenSandra Simonsen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

(Visiting  Graduate Student,  October 1, 2019 -February 1, 2020)

Natella NuralievaNatella Nuralieva, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

(CCS Visiting Graduate Student, September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020)