Officers, Honorary Fellows, Executive Council, and Committees
We are most proud that for over 30 years, SASE movers and shakers have greatly increased awareness of socio-economics throughout the world.
OFFICERS

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Jacqueline O’Reilly is full Professor of Comparative HRM at the University of Sussex Business School and Co-Director for the ESRC £8 million investment in the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (digit-research.org) (2020-24).
She is the UK lead on the Horizon 2020 EUROSHIP project on social protection in Europe (euroship-research.eu) (2020-23). Previously, she coordinated EU STYLE: Strategic Transitions for Youth Labour in Europe (www.style-research.eu) (2014-17) and was UK lead on the EU NEGOTIATE project (www.negotiate-research.eu) (2015-18).
Her most recent research focuses on the digital transformation of work, labour market policy and international comparisons of gender, ethnicity and labour market transitions across the life course.
She completed her doctorate at Nuffield College, University of Oxford on an Anglo-French comparison of employment practices in the banking sector. She worked for ten years at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), Germany, and at Sciences Politiques in Paris, London, Manchester and Brighton Universities in the UK.
In 2000 she was awarded a Jean Monnet Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence. She is a visiting research fellow at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Sciences Politiques, Paris, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Wirthschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftes Institut (WSI), Dusseldorf.
She has served on the editorial board of the BJIR, Socio-Economic Review, and Work, Employment and Society where she was also Chair of the editorial board. She was elected twice to the Executive Council of SASE. In 2019 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences for her distinguished contribution to the field of interdisciplinary research.
She has been consulted by HM Treasury, Full Employment Team and the UK Cabinet Office Open Innovation Unit on equal pay and youth employment. She is an Evaluation Rapporteur for the European Commission Horizon 2020 research programme, was invited as an advisor to the ILO Work4Youth programme funded by The MasterCard Foundation, and was an evaluator on two occasions for the German Excellence Initiative of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (€151 million investment).
She lives in Hove, UK with her two teenage sons where she enjoys living by the sea, watching Nordic Noir and discovering whether youth music today is better than that of the 1980s.
Researchgate.net: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacqueline_Oreilly
ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6223-154X


Nina Bandelj is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development at the University of California, Irvine. She is an economic sociologist interested in the study of money, and how culture, social relations and emotions influence the economy. Growing up in Yugoslavia, and coming of age as Eastern Europe transformed 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. Her books include From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe (2008), Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective (2010, with E. Sowers), Economic Sociology of Work (2009), The Cultural Wealth of Nations (2011, with F. Wherry), Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged: Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009 (2012, with D. Solinger) and Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (2017, with F. Wherry and V. Zelizer). Bandelj currently serves as one of the editors of Socio-Economic Review, as Treasurer of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, and as Vice President of the American Sociological Association.


M: the Spanish Language Network
Santos Ruesga is Professor of Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has taught in numerous academic centers in multiple countries in Europe (Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, etc.), North America (Mexico and USA), Latin America (Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, etc.), and Asia (China and Japan). As a researcher in socio-economics, he has specialized in the study of labor relations, the informal economy, and Latin American economies, from macroeconomic and empirical perspectives. On these topics, he has published a large number of books and articles in academic and professional journals and has participated in more than a hundred international and national scientific congresses. He is also a prolific organizer of scientific events, serving on numerous scientific councils at international congresses and meetings, and participating in more than a dozen editorial and advisory boards of scientific journals in various countries.
Likewise, he dedicates a significant intellectual effort to the work of knowledge transfer, having given numerous lectures, written several hundred newspaper articles, carried out technical reports (European Union, Spanish Government, World Bank, etc.), advised public and private organizations, and organized multiple informative events.
He was a member of the Superior Council of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy for ten years (2000-2010) and was Vice Chairman of the Menéndez Pelayo International University of Spain (200-2004). Currently, he leads a Research Group named Labour Socioeconomics, which brings together researchers from various countries.
He has been a member of the SASE since 2006; served on SASE’s Executive Council between 2012 and 2018; founded and coordinated its Ibero-American regional meetings (UNAM-Mexico-2013; UFRGS-Porto Alegre-Brazil, 2015; UTB-Cartagena de Indias – Colombia, 2017; UNC-Costa Rica- 2019; UNMSM-Peru-2021); served as local organizer of the 22nd SASE Annual Meeting (Madrid, 2011); and has been co-organizer of Network M (Spanish Language) since 2010.

University Duisberg-Essen

D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World
Sigrid Quack is Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and Professor of Comparative Sociology at the University Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Previously, she was Leader of the Research Group on Institution Building across Borders at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and for many years a Senior Researcher at the WZB Social Science Center Berlin. She has been a visiting fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE); the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, Providence; the École Normal Supérieure Cachan; and St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge.
Sigrid has written widely on globalization and institutional change, transnational governance, professions and expertise, as well as previously on the comparative analysis of capitalism, gender relations, labour markets and employment systems. Among other publications, Sigrid has co-edited two volumes with Marie-Laure Djelic on Transnational Communities (Cambridge University Press) and Globalization and Institutions (Edward Elgar). She has published articles in Accounting, Organizations and Society;Annual Review of Sociology; Cambridge Journal of Economics; Global Policy; Organization Studies; Revista de Administração de Empresas; Review of International Political Economy; Socio-Economic Review and Theory and Society. Her most recent German book (co-edited with Schulz-Schaeffer, Shire and Weiß) explores forms and regulations of transnational work and labour markets (Transnationale Arbeit, VS Springer). Sheis currently working on two major projects: organized creativity and intellectual property rights in pharma and music; and imagined pathways to global cooperation in transnational governance.
Sigrid Quack has been a member of SASE since 2006. She is a co-organizer of Network D: Professions and Professionals in a Globalizing World, has served on the Executive Council since 2014, on the SER Best Prize Committee in 2016 and 2018 and on the Diversity Committee in 2019.
Photo by Georg Lukas / KHK/GCR21

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics

Annelies Fryberger holds a PhD in sociology from the EHESS, where she was a member of the Analysis of Musical Practices team at the IRCAM and the Center for Research on the Arts and Language (CRAL) of the EHESS. She wrote her dissertation on peer review in contemporary art music in France and the United States. She held postdoc positions with the DAAD, the LabEX CAP, and the New School, and she continues her research on artistic practices and evaluation. Her research has been published in Poetics, Contemporary Music Review, and Curator: The museum journal, among others.
STAFF


Jacob has been part of the SASE team since 2009. His primarily responsibilities include conference coordination, communications, administrative support, website postings, and blog coordination.
Jacob is also a multi-media poet whose work has appeared in/been exhibited at The Paris Review, The Believer, Le Monde, and The Palais de Tokyo, among other venues. He was The Brooklyn Rail’s inaugural Poet-in-Transit, and his collaboration with Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, won the Silver Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. Thanks in part to the SASE community, (in)commensurability has become a major thematic focus in his work.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
The Executive Council is SASE’s official policymaking body. It currently consists of 22 members, each elected for a term of three years, and convenes once yearly at SASE’s annual meeting to make decisions and nominations that govern SASE’s everyday functioning as well as its future.
Bruno Amable (University of Geneva)
Caroline Arnold (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Chiara Benassi (King’s College London)
Marta Reis Castilho (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Katherine Chen (City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Ying Chen (The New School)
Nana de Graaff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Timur Ergen (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Emily Erikson (Yale University)
Elizabeth Gorman (University of Virginia)
Heather Haveman (University of California, Berkeley)
Michelle Hsieh (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Karin Knorr Cetina (University of Chicago)
Monika Krause (London School of Economics)
Jeanne Lazarus (Sciences Po, Paris)
Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
Virág Molnár (The New School)
Eunmi Mun (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Franklin Obeng-Odoom (University of Helsinki)
Kim Pernell (University of Toronto)
Karen Shire (University Duisburg-Essen)
Elizabeth Thurbon (UNSW Sydney)
Zsuzsanna Vargha (ESCP Business School)
Natascha van der Zwan (Leiden University)
2022 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jacqueline O’Reilly [chair] (University of Sussex)
Daniel Mügge (University of Amsterdam)
Marc Schneiberg (Reed College)
Francesca Sobande (Cardiff University)
Heather Haveman (University of California, Berkeley)
Hussein Kassim (University of East Anglia)
Martha Zuber (SASE)
PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH COMMITTEE
Sigrid Quack [chair] (University Duisburg-Essen)
Santos Ruesga (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Katherine Chen (City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
NETWORK OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Caroline Arnold [chair] (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
Aldo Madariaga (Diego Portales University)
Kim Pernell (University of Toronto)
MEMBERSHIP AND DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
Karen Shire [chair] (University Duisburg-Essen)
Mehmet Asutay (Durham University Business School)
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Jeanne Lazarus [chair] (Sciences Po, Paris)
Monika Krause (London School of Economics)
Natascha van der Zwan (Leiden University)
EARLY CAREER WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
Roberto Pedersini [chair] (confirmed)
Chiara Benassi (King’s College London)
Ying Chen (The New School for Social Research)
Astrid Krenz (Digit Futures at Work Research Centre)
Becky Faith (Digit Futures at Work Research Centre)
Annelies Fryberger (SASE)
Debra Howcroft (Digit Futures at Work Research Centre)
Michelle Hsieh (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Steve Rolf (Digit Futures at Work Research Centre)
ALICE AMSDEN BOOK AWARD
Virág Molnár [chair] (The New School)
Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS)
Eunmi Mun (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
SER BEST ARTICLE PRIZE COMMITTEE
Elizabeth Thurbon [chair] (UNSW Sydney)
Timur Ergen (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Alexandru Preda (King’s College London)
AD-HOC ORGANIZATIONAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
Zsusanna Varga [chair] (ESCP Business School)
Emily Erikson (Yale University)
Renate Meyer (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Glenn Morgan (University of Bristol)
BLOG TEAM
Gábor Scheiring [chief editor] (Bocconi University)
Melike Arslan (Harvard University)
Javier Baquero (Autonomous University of Madrid)
Ke Nie (University of California, San Diego)
Annelies Fryberger [SASE editor]
Jacob Bromberg [SASE coordinator]
WOMEN AND GENDER FORUM
Dorottya Sallai [founding chair] (London School of Economics)
Sarah Ashwin (London School of Economics)
Chiara Benassi (King’s College London)
Virginia L. Doellgast (Cornell University)
Jacqueline O’Reilly (University of Sussex)
Caroline Ruiner (University of Hohenheim)
HONORARY FELLOWS
Robert Boyer, Karin Knorr Cetina, Amitai Etzioni, John Gardner*, Anthony Giddens, Albert O. Hirschman*, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Donald MacKenzie, Jane Mansbridge, Renate Mayntz, Marino Regini, Mari Sako, Fritz Scharpf, Amartya Sen, Herbert Simon*, Neil Smelser*, Robert Solow, Wolfgang Streeck, Richard Swedberg, Kathy Thelen, Lester Thurow*, Viviana Zelizer
*deceased