Drawing on the theory of performativity of icons, she is now examining the work process of Chinese “social media influencers/celebrities” specialized in modeling and make-up on “Dou Yin” (Chinese version of Tik-Tok). Renxue has a general research interest in how the meaning of beauty is shaped in the nexus of labor, production and consumption. Now she is a third year PhD candidate specializing in cultural sociology and sociology of work. Renxue Wan started her doctoral study in sociology at Fudan University in the year 2018. He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled Exculpatory Knowledge: How and Why Social Science Becomes Apologetic, on what it means to say that research in the social sciences excuses, justifies, or normalizes harmful practices and institutions. In particular, he studies the use of social and historical research in legal and political contexts, the social effects imputed to scientific knowledge, and the variety of epistemic cultures in the social sciences. His research examines social science as a cultural system. He holds degrees from the University of Trieste (Italy) and Sorbonne University (France), and was previously Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). (CCS Postdoctoral Fellow)įederico Brandmayr, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yaleįederico Brandmayr is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MacMillan Center at Yale University. She has been published in the British Journal of Sociology, the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, The Sociological Quarterly, Review of International Studies, and Memory Studies. Her research interests include the intersection of memory, conflict, culture, and politics and how meaning is constructed through interactive processes of negotiation. Her Ph.D., from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focused on ‘traveling’ collective memory and the many ways in which memory is mobilized in political rhetoric. Tracy Adams is a research associate at the Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa. Tracy Adams, Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa, Israel His creative writing was published in several Czech and international journals and received several awards (recently the first place in the Brno Short Story Writing Contest). In 2017, he published a poetry collection Horizont očekávání (Horizon of Expectations, Weles, Brno). He participated in literary residencies in Kraków, Poland (2019) and Broumov Monastery, Czech Republic (2020) with his project on promoting social issues through fiction. His long-term interest is in transgressing the institutional boundaries between social sciences and literature, which he also pursues by publishing socially engaged/sociological fiction. He was awarded the Miloslav Petrusek Prize for the best student article in the Czech Republic two times (20). The research topics include the sociology of literature, literary sociology and sociological fiction, sociological theory, and cultural sociology. His dissertation thesis explores aesthetic and emotional aspects of communism in the 1970s and 1980s Czechoslovakia through selected Czech novels. In his research “Towards a Strong Program in the Sociology of Literature”, he develops a sociological model for approaching literary fiction as an autonomous source of social knowledge. Jan Váňa finished his dissertation thesis at the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University in Brno and as a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Presidential Election (2019, Palgrave Macmillan) (Visiting Faculty Fellow). Some of his recent writings can be found in the edited volumes, Populism in the Civil Sphere (2021, Polity), and Politics of Meaning /Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Cultural forms like codes and narratives, and processes like social performances and dramas, are central themes in this work. Currently, he is focusing primarily on the rise of populism in the U.S., and explaining Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election. Funded by the Horizon2020 program of the European Commission, Mast’s research investigates “cultural codes in crisis” in three series of events that occurred during the second decade of the twenty-first century: the rise of Trumpism in the US, the prelude to the Brexit vote in the UK, and the successes of the far right in Germany. Jason L Mast is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow at the University of Trento and Yale University. Jason Mast, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, University of Trento and Yale University
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