SASE hosted its fifth Early Career Workshop at its 2020 Conference online.
The SASE Early Career Workshop (ECW) is a one-day workshop that provides an opportunity for a longer and deeper discussion of applicants’ conference papers and is hosted by senior SASE professors.
Workshop committee & faculty
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Roberto Pedersini (chair) |
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Nina Bandelj |
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Chiara Benassi |
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Timur Ergen |
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Virág Molnár |
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Akos Rona-Tas |
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Marc Schneiberg |
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Milan Babic, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Foreign State Investment and Geoeconomic Competition: Mapping the Consequences of the Rise of Transnational State Capital
Mini-Conference: State Capitalism and State-led Development in the 21st century: China and Beyond – Session TH14-05
Benjamin Bradlow, Brown University, USA
Embeddedness and Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-01
Gabriela Camacho, Humbold University, Germany
Two Roads of Neoliberal Reform in Higher Education: Chile and Peru in Comparative Perspective
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-01
Cyrus Dioun, University of Colorado – Denver, USA
When It’s Good to Be Bad: Rewarding Deviance in Washington’s Marijuana Market
Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions – Session H-16
Daniel Driscoll, University of California – San Diego, USA
The Socio-Political Foundations of Carbon Price Enactment in Twenty Wealthy Democracies
Mini-Conference: Green Economy Contradictions – Session TH10-03
Aaron Horvath, Stanford University, USA
From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational Supererogation and the Transformation of Charitable Disclosure
Network N: Finance and Society – Session N-08
Agata Kapturkiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
Varieties of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Comparative Study of Enacted Measures in Tokyo and Bangalore
Network F: Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation – Session F-06
Wan-Zi Lu, University of Chicago, USA
Political Impetus for Institutional Complementarities: Comparing the Institutionalization of Kidney Donation in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms – Session Q-01
Erez Maggor, New York University, USA
Overcoming the ‘Spillover Problem’: The Politics of Innovation Policy Under Economic Globalization
Mini-Conference: State Capitalism and State-led Development in the 21st century: China and Beyond – Session TH14-06
Sophie Moullin, Princeton University, USA
Culture at Work: Self-Entrepreneurialism and Earnings Inequality in the United States, 1995-2014
Network G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources – Session G-02
Stefan Norgaard, Columbia University, USA
Capitalization and Its Discontents: The Political Economy of Development in Ethiopia’s Gibe III Dam and NESTown Initiative
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-05
Signe Predmore, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, USA
Finance and Development Logics: Gender Mainstreaming from Global South to North
Network D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World – Session D-03
Godofredo Ramizo Jr., University of Oxford, UK
Platforms, Algorithms and User Agency: How User Strategies Reshape the Rules of Digital Platforms
Network J: Digital Economy – Session J-08
Gabor Scheiring, Bocconi University, Italy
Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Illiberalism: A Comparative Political Economy of the Crisis of Democracy in East-Central Europe
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-07
Padmavathi Shenoy, Indian Institute of Management Trichy, India
Changing the Rules of the Game While Playing: Process of Logic Hybridization in Community Ophthalmology Field
Network H: Markets, Firms, and Institutions – Session H-05
Matthew Soener, The New School for Social Research, USA
Did the “Real” Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Global Contours of Corporate Financialization in the Non-Financial Sector
Mao Suzuki, University of Southern California, USA
Deciding Modalities of Global Health Governance: What Facilitates or Hinders Public-Private Partnerships?
Mini-Conference: Regulation, Innovation, and Valuation in Markets for Health and Medicines – Session TH13-04
Arianna Tassinari, European University Institute, Italy
Reassuring the Markets: The Politics of Social Concertation in Acute Crisis Times
E: Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States – Session E-05
Nora Waitkus, London School of Economics, UK
Wealth Inequality Regimes. Towards a Typology of Cross-National Differences in Wealth and Inequality
Mini-Conference: Mind the Wealth Gap? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Accumulation, Justification, and (Re)Distribution of Wealth – Session TH11-01
Ayca Zayim, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Inside the Black Box: Credibility and the Situational Power of Central Banks
Network N: Finance and Society – Session N-12
Yang Zheng, City University of Hong Kong, China
Discourse Interaction in Chinese Urban Communities: Expressed Disenchantment and Disenchanted Conformance
Network A: Development, Identities, and Communitarian Ideals – Session A-02
Na Zou, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Social Networks and Micro-Entrepreneurship: The Role of Resource Variety and Resource Balance
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms – Session Q-08
Nina Bandelj (she/her) is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology, associate vice provost for faculty development, and co-director of Center for Organizational Research at the University of California, Irvine. An economic sociologist, Bandelj is interested in how relational work, culture, power, and emotions influence investment, spending, debt, inequality, and ideas about the economy. Growing up in Yugoslavia and coming of age as Eastern Europe transformed rapidly after the fall of the Berlin Wall inspires Bandelj to connect individuals’ emotions, beliefs and struggles with systemic transformations of communism, capitalism, and the global economy.
Bandelj has published numerous articles and book chapters, including in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Theory and Society, and Socio-Economic Review. Her books include From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton University Press, 2008), Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective (Polity Press, 2010, with Elizabeth Sowers), Economic Sociology of Work (Emerald Publishing, 2009), The Cultural Wealth of Nations (Stanford University Press, 2011, with Frederick F. Wherry), Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged: Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009 (Oxford University Press, 2012, with Dorothy Solinger), and Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (Princeton University Press, 2017, with Frederick F. Wherry and Viviana Zelizer). Her research has been funded by the American National Science Foundation, American Council for Learned Societies, and Slovenian National Research Agency, among others.
Bandelj, who received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, is past Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and the European University Institute in Florence. She is an honorary member of the Sociological Research Association, and a recipient of the Distinguished Mid-Career Award for Service, the Dynamic Womxn Award for Academic Achievement, and the Carol Connor Equity Advisor Impact Award from the University of California, Irvine. She was awarded a life-time title of Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
In addition to her scholarship, Bandelj has a deep commitment to service and inclusive excellence. She has served as equity advisor and acting associate dean for research and graduate affairs in the School of Social Sciences, and as facilitator in Women’s Initiative supported by the University of California, Office of the President. In her role as inaugural associate vice provost for faculty development, she designs and oversees programs, and consults on policies in support of faculty advancement, well-being, and equity. Bandelj is finishing her term as one of the editors of Socio-Economic Review and was previously Treasurer of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. She was Vice President of the American Sociological Association for 2021-22 and is currently SASE President-Elect for 2022-2023.
Chiara Benassi is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna and Senior Visiting Fellow at King’s College London. Her research focuses on comparative employment relations, the political economy of labor markets and growth models. Her work has appeared in Socio-Economic Review, ILR Review, and Work, Employment & Society. Chiara has led and secured several major research grants, including funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the ESRC, and the Hans Boeckler Foundation. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and has held positions at Royal Holloway University, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, and King’s College London.
Timur Ergen is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and an interim professor of sociology at the University of Oldenburg. Timur co-organizes the SASE Research Network Digital Economy and has been a member of SASE’s Executive Council since 2020. His research investigates competition, energy transitions, industrial and technology policy, and the postindustrial economy. His previous work has appeared in Competition and Change, Energy Research and Social Science, the Review of International Political Economy, and the Socio-economic Review.
Virág Molnár holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Before moving to Amsterdam, she was Associate Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her research explores the intersections of culture, politics, and social change in Eastern Europe, with special focus on urban culture, the built environment, and material culture. She has written about architecture and state formation in socialist and postsocialist Eastern Europe, the post-1989 reconstruction of Berlin, and the new housing landscape of postsocialist cities. Current projects include a comparative study of emerging markets for street art in New York, Berlin and Budapest; the politics of urban rodent control; and the cultural production of nationalist populism in contemporary Hungary. Her book Building the State: Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe (Routledge, 2013) received the Mary Douglas Prize from the American Sociological Association. She has been a visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Humboldt Universität in Berlin, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.
Roberto Pedersini is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology and Director of the interdepartmental research centre “WTW – Work, Training and Welfare” at the Università degli Studi di Milano. His main research interests concern labour market regulation and policies and industrial and employment relations. He has both participated and coordinated several research projects in these fields since the early 1990s at both national and international level. He has collaborated with the International Labour Office and collaborated as an expert with the European Commission and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions in several occasions. His recent publications include Economic crisis and the politics of public service employment relations in Italy and France (with Lorenzo Bordogna, in European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 19, no. 4, 2013), Coping with the crisis in Italy: Employment relations and social dialogue amidst the recession (with Marino Regini, ILO, 2013) and contributions to Sociology of Work. An Encyclopedia (V. Smith, ed., Sage Publications, 2013).
Akos Rona-Tas is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where he is also founding faculty of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute. For many years, he was a senior research associate at INRA, Paris, and he was the President of SASE in 2018-2019.
He has written two books on market creation. Great Surprise of the Small Transformation: Demise of Communism and Rise of the Private Sector in Hungary, was published by Michigan University Press, the second one, co-authored with Alya Guseva, Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries, by Stanford University Press.
He has published articles on the post-communist transition, on small entrepreneurs, consumer credit, and payment card markets in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Theory and Society, Socio-Economic Review, Social Science Research, Research on Sociology of Organizations, Journal of Comparative Economics, Research in the Sociology of Work, as well as various chapters in edited volumes. He is currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management.
Akos Rona-Tas has been a member of SASE since 2005. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the Finance and Society Network, served on the Executive Council between 2012 and 2015, as Treasurer between 2015 and 2018, and as SASE President in 2018/19.
Marc Schneiberg, the John C. Pock Professor of Sociology at Reed College, is an economic and organizational sociologist who research focuses mainly on the rise, contemporary fates, and economic consequences of organizational diversity and alternatives to giant, shareholder corporations within American capitalism. He has studied the evolution of cooperative and other alternative enterprise systems in the US, including electrical and agricultural cooperatives, insurance mutuals, community banks, and credit unions. He has also addressed how such systems can help reshape markets, subject corporations to countervailing forces, and foster both resilience and shared prosperities in local economies. With National Science Foundation support, he is currently studying organizational variety within American banking and how it combined with state policy to channel flows of loans away from—and in to—small business in poor and minority communities during the pandemic. Schneiberg also has long standing interests in institutions and their relationships with social movements, and in economic governance, including association, regulation and self-regulation in American manufacturing and finance. He has been honored to serve in various capacities in the American Sociological Association, the NSF and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. His work can be accessed on his webpage.
Milan Babic, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Foreign State Investment and Geoeconomic Competition: Mapping the Consequences of the Rise of Transnational State Capital
Mini-Conference: State Capitalism and State-led Development in the 21st century: China and Beyond – Session TH14-05
Benjamin Bradlow, Brown University, USA
Embeddedness and Cohesion: Regimes of Urban Public Goods Distribution
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-01
Gabriela Camacho, Humbold University, Germany
Two Roads of Neoliberal Reform in Higher Education: Chile and Peru in Comparative Perspective
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-01
Cyrus Dioun, University of Colorado – Denver, USA
When It’s Good to Be Bad: Rewarding Deviance in Washington’s Marijuana Market
Network H: Markets, Firms and Institutions – Session H-16
Daniel Driscoll, University of California – San Diego, USA
The Socio-Political Foundations of Carbon Price Enactment in Twenty Wealthy Democracies
Mini-Conference: Green Economy Contradictions – Session TH10-03
Aaron Horvath, Stanford University, USA
From Accounting to Accountability: Organizational Supererogation and the Transformation of Charitable Disclosure
Network N: Finance and Society – Session N-08
Agata Kapturkiewicz, University of Oxford, UK
Varieties of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Comparative Study of Enacted Measures in Tokyo and Bangalore
Network F: Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation – Session F-06
Wan-Zi Lu, University of Chicago, USA
Political Impetus for Institutional Complementarities: Comparing the Institutionalization of Kidney Donation in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms – Session Q-01
Erez Maggor, New York University, USA
Overcoming the ‘Spillover Problem’: The Politics of Innovation Policy Under Economic Globalization
Mini-Conference: State Capitalism and State-led Development in the 21st century: China and Beyond – Session TH14-06
Sophie Moullin, Princeton University, USA
Culture at Work: Self-Entrepreneurialism and Earnings Inequality in the United States, 1995-2014
Network G: Labor Markets, Education, and Human Resources – Session G-02
Stefan Norgaard, Columbia University, USA
Capitalization and Its Discontents: The Political Economy of Development in Ethiopia’s Gibe III Dam and NESTown Initiative
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-05
Signe Predmore, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, USA
Finance and Development Logics: Gender Mainstreaming from Global South to North
Network D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World – Session D-03
Godofredo Ramizo Jr., University of Oxford, UK
Platforms, Algorithms and User Agency: How User Strategies Reshape the Rules of Digital Platforms
Network J: Digital Economy – Session J-08
Gabor Scheiring, Bocconi University, Italy
Varieties of Dependency, Varieties of Illiberalism: A Comparative Political Economy of the Crisis of Democracy in East-Central Europe
Network B: Globalization and Socio-Economic Development – Session B-07
Padmavathi Shenoy, Indian Institute of Management Trichy, India
Changing the Rules of the Game While Playing: Process of Logic Hybridization in Community Ophthalmology Field
Network H: Markets, Firms, and Institutions – Session H-05
Matthew Soener, The New School for Social Research, USA
Did the “Real” Economy Turn Financial? Mapping the Global Contours of Corporate Financialization in the Non-Financial Sector
Mao Suzuki, University of Southern California, USA
Deciding Modalities of Global Health Governance: What Facilitates or Hinders Public-Private Partnerships?
Mini-Conference: Regulation, Innovation, and Valuation in Markets for Health and Medicines – Session TH13-04
Arianna Tassinari, European University Institute, Italy
Reassuring the Markets: The Politics of Social Concertation in Acute Crisis Times
E: Political Economy of Industrial Relations and Welfare States – Session E-05
Nora Waitkus, London School of Economics, UK
Wealth Inequality Regimes. Towards a Typology of Cross-National Differences in Wealth and Inequality
Mini-Conference: Mind the Wealth Gap? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Accumulation, Justification, and (Re)Distribution of Wealth – Session TH11-01
Ayca Zayim, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Inside the Black Box: Credibility and the Situational Power of Central Banks
Network N: Finance and Society – Session N-12
Yang Zheng, City University of Hong Kong, China
Discourse Interaction in Chinese Urban Communities: Expressed Disenchantment and Disenchanted Conformance
Network A: Development, Identities, and Communitarian Ideals – Session A-02
Na Zou, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Social Networks and Micro-Entrepreneurship: The Role of Resource Variety and Resource Balance
Network Q: Asian Capitalisms – Session Q-08
Roberto Pedersini (chair)
Nina Bandelj
Chiara Benassi
Timur Ergen
Virág Molnár
Akos Rona-Tas
Marc Schneiberg