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I am Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego where I am also founding faculty of the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute. For many years, I was a senior research associate at INRA, Paris, and currently, I am scholar in residence at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

I wrote 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.

I have 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. I am currently working on the problem of rationality and uncertainty in two different contexts: credit assessment and the use of science in risk management.

I have been a member of SASE since 2005. I am the co-founder and co-organizer of the Finance and Society Network, served on the Executive Council between 2012 and 2015, and as Treasurer between 2015 and 2018.

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Nina Bandelj is Professor of Sociology, Equity Advisor to Dean in Social Sciences and Co-Director of Center for Organizational Research at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines the social, cultural and emotional influences on economic phenomena, globalization, and postsocialism. She is the (co)author or (co)editor of six books and multiple articles. Her most recent book is Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works (with F. Wherry and V. Zelizer, 2017). Bandelj serves as one of the editors of Socio-Economic Review, is past Chair of Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and on Executive Councils of the ASA, Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics and RC09 of International Sociological Association.

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