Editors
The Co-editors
Dr. David L. Brunsma is Associate Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the University of Missouri where he teaches and conducts research on human rights, race/racism/racialization/racial identity, and the sociology of education. His numerous publications across these three areas include The Leading Rogue State: The United States and Human Rights (2008, Paradigm), Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America (2nd Edition, 2008, Rowman & Littlefield), and The School Uniform Movement and What it Tells Us About American Education: A Symbolic Crusade (2004, Rowman & Littlefield Education). He is Treasurer and a member of the Executive Board of Sociologists without Borders and lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife Rachel and his three children.
Dr. Mark Frezzo is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Mississippi. His research explores the role of social movement organizations, NGOs, and UN agencies in reinterpreting old rights and inventing new rights. He has published book chapters in Overcoming the “Two Cultures”: Science vs. the Humanities in the Modern World-System (Paradigm 2004), The World and US Social Forums: A Better World Is Possible and Necessary (Brill 2008), and The Leading Rogue State: The United States and Human Rights (Paradigm 2008), articles in Sociology Compass, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, and Societies Without Borders, and a book, Deflecting the Crisis: Keynesianism, Social Movements, and US Hegemony. (Lambert 2009). In addition, he has contributed two chapters to Sociology and Human Rights: A Bill of Rights for the Twenty-First Century–a book that he co-edited with Judith Blau. He serves as Secretary/Treasurer for the Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association and Vice President for Public Relations of Sociologists Without Borders.
Dr. Keri E. Iyall Smith’s research explores the intersections between human rights, the state, and indigenous peoples in the context of a globalizing society. She has published articles on hybridity and world society, human rights, and teaching sociology. She is the author of States and Indigenous Movements (Routledge 2006), co-editor, with Patricia Leavy, of Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (Brill 2008), and co-editor, with Judith R. Blau, of Public Sociologies Reader (Rowman and Littlefield 2006). She is an assistant professor of Sociology at Suffolk University in Boston, MA where she teaches courses on globalization, indigenous peoples, and sociological theory. She is the Vice-President of Sociologists without Borders.
The Book Review Editor
Dr. Tugrul Keskin is Assistant Professor of International and Middle Eastern Studies and is a affiliated faculty member of the Center For Turkish Studies at Portland State University. His research and teaching interests include Sociology of Islam and the Middle East, Sociological Theories, Post-Colonial Theory, Islamic Movements, Sociology of Africa (Imperialism and Re-colonization in Africa after 1950s), Modern Kurdish, Uyghur and Turkish Nationalism. He is a moderator of the Sociology of Islam and Sociology of the Middle East Listserv, and is the editor of the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies Newsletter. Dr. Keskin is also the editor of the book, The Sociology of Islam: Secularism Economy and Politics (Garnet/Ithaca Press 2010).
