Advisory & Managing Editors

Work on the project has been divided into 33 editorial areas, each of which represents a major area of inquiry within sociology. (The ENCYCLOPEDIA itself is in A-Z order.) Each area has a specially selected advisory editor from an international team of eminent scholars:

Advisory Editors

Rebecca Adams, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Syed Farid Alatas, National University of Singapore

Graham Allan, Keele University

Peter Beilharz, La Trobe University

Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland

Chris Carter, University of St. Andrews

Roberto Cipriani, University of Roma Tre

Stewart Clegg, University of Technology , Sydney

Jay Coakley, University of Colorado

William Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Miriam Alfie Cohen, Autonomous Metropolitan University

Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois

Rutledge Dennis, George Mason University

Erich Goode, University of Maryland

Jeff Goodwin, New York University

Kevin Fox Gotham, Tulane University

Axel Groenemeyer, University of Bielefeld

Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

Yvonna Lincoln , Texas A&M University

David Maines , Oakland University

Barry Markovsky, University of South Carolina

Chandra Muller, University of Texas

Nancy Naples, University of Connecticut

Jodi O'Brien, Seattle University

Nick Perry, University of Auckland

Ken Plummer, University of Essex

Chris Rojek, Nottingham Trent University

John Stone, Boston University

Yoshio Sugimoto, La Trobe University

Edward Tiryakian, Duke University

Ruth Triplett, Old Dominion University

Wout Ultee, University of Nijmegen

Steve Yearley, University of York

Milan Zafirovski, University of North Texas

Senior Managing Editor

J. Michael Ryan, University of Maryland

Assistant Managing Editor

Betsy Thorn, University of Maryland