Steven Brint is an internationally recognized authority on middle class politics and the politics of higher education. Professor Brint's forthcoming book, The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University, a study of continuity and change in American colleges and universities since 1970. His book, Diverted Dream, received the 1991 American Education Research Association's "Outstanding Book" award and the 1991 Council of Colleges and Universities' "Outstanding Research Publication." His other two books are Schools and Societies (1998) and In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life (1994). His work on the professions and middle-class politics has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Work and Occupations, Sociological Theory and in volumes edited by such scholars as William Julius Wilson, Morris Fiorina, Theda Skocpol, and Terry Nichols Clark.

Christopher Chase-Dunn is the founder and co-editor of the electronic Journal of World-Systems Research and directs the Institute for Research on World Systems at UC-Riverside. He is currently studying international economic, political and cultural integration of the world-system over the past 200 years and working on a comparative study of stateless, state-based, and modern world-systems. He received the Distinguished Publication Award, Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association for his book, Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy (1989). His many books also include Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development (2001, with Nelson Amaro and Susanne), The Spiral of Capitalism and Socialism: Toward Global Democracy (2000, with Terry Boswell), and Rise and Demise: Comparing World-Systems (1997, with Thomas D. Hall). Chase-Dunn was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001.

Robert Hanneman is the author of books on welfare state development, centralization in the structure of social service delivery systems, medical care system performance, dynamic models of sociological theories, and social network analysis methods. He has done work in military and economic sociology, and is currently examining the evolution of organizational populations and the evolution of cooperation in the United States salt industry from 1800 to 2000. His research areas include computational modeling (simulation) for theory construction, economic sociology, social networks, political and military sociology. He has published Collins, Randall and Robert Hanneman. 1998. "Modeling the Interaction Ritual Theory of Solidarity." Pp. 213-237 in P. Doreian and T. Fararo (eds.) The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models. Gordon and Breach; Russell, Raymond and Robert Hanneman. 2000. "The Use of Part-Time Employees and Independent Contractors Among Small Enterprises in Russia." Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 9: 187-208, Russell, Raymond and Robert Hanneman. (Forthcoming). "The Role of Institutional Processes in the Formation of Worker Cooperatives in Israel." In J.R. Hollingsworth and Karl Mueller (eds.) Socioeconomics: New Perspectives. Rowan and Littlefield.

Alexandra Maryanski is an Associate Professor of Sociology. She is trained in anthropology as well as sociology, having gone ABD in anthropology before turning to sociology where she received a Ph.D. in Social Science at the University of California at Irvine. She is known in the discipline as one of a growing group of scholars exploring the interface between evolutionary biology and sociology. Her most important works to date have focused on what knowledge of the evolution of non-human primate social structures can say about human nature, behavior, and social organization. She also has interests in social institutions, particularly kinship and religion, social network analysis, societal evolution, and the history of both sociological and anthropological theory.

Raymond Russell focuses on how workers can participate in the ownership and control of their workplaces. His book Sharing Ownership in the Workplace (1985) examined forms of employee ownership in the United States, while Utopia in Zion (1995) surveyed the history of worker cooperatives in Israel. Since 1996, Russell has been investigating the relationship between work and ownership in the contemporary Russian economy. Articles based on these studies have appeared in such journals and series as Work and Occupations, Industrial Relations, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Research in the Sociology of Work.

Jonathan H. Turner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology. He is known primarily as a general theorist, although he has a number of more substantive specialties, including: the sociology of emotions, ethnic relations, social institutions, social stratification, and bio-sociology. He has been Faculty Research Lecturer at UCR, and in the profession, he has been president of the Pacific Sociological Association and California Sociological Association. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Chuck Whitney studies the performance of mass media organizations and institutions and is the coauthor of three related books in the area: MediaMaking: The Mass Media in a Popular Culture (2 nd ed. forthcoming, 2005), AudienceMaking: How the Media Create the Audience, and Individuals in Mass Media Organizations: Creativity and Constraint. His current research focuses on the content of individual professional communicators' notions of their audiences, and of the public, and the structural correlates of these notions.