About the Authors

Jon Agnone is a Data Scientist in HR analytics with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Affiliate Assistant Professor with the University of Washington’s Department of Sociology, Faculty Associate with the University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and Director and Co-founder of the Northwest Social Research Group. Dr. Agnone’s scholarly publications have focused on how collective action on the part of social movements can affect individual and group outcomes. He has written on inequality, civil and women’s rights, the environmental movement, and labor unions. He has also served as a reviewer for many highly regarded academic journals. His current book project focuses on wealth inequality in the United States and is anticipated to be completed by late 2016/early 2017.

Crystal Armstrong is a Ph.D. candidate in International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. She holds a Master of Science from Creighton University in Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Montana State University. She has worked with the Soliya Connect program as a facilitator, and serves as a researcher with the International Conflict and Transformation Initiative (ICAT). Her dissertation title is Digital Disturbance: Social Identities and Mobilization for Collective Action. The project applies traditional social identity theory to a digital group, the online collective Anonymous, to analyze social identities are formed and reinforced in the digital sector.

Britta Baumgarten is Postdoctoral Researcher at CIES-IUL, Lisbon, and an invited lecturer on protest politics and collective action at ISCTE, Lisbon. She works on civil society and social movements in Portugal and in Brazil in a transnational perspective and leads the FCT/CAPES project cooperation: “New Modes of Political Participation” between CIES-UIL and the Federal University of Santa Catarina/Brazil. She worked as a researcher in the project “UNEMPOL – The Contentious Politics of Unemployment in Europe” and as a postdoctoral researcher with the research group “Civil Society, Citizenship and Social Movements in Europe” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Her recent publications include: Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research (Palgrave, 2014), and Geração à Rasca and beyond. Mobilizations in Portugal after March 12, 2011, in Current Sociology, July 2013.

Larissa R. Begley is Anthropologist and Lecturer in African and African American Studies at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex. Her research interest is in Central-East Africa, with a focus on using ethnographic methods to understand communities impacted by conflict, violence, and the state.

Tine Destrooper is the Managing Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU’s School of Law. Her research focuses on the local relevance of human rights and on the ways in which social movements can use human rights discourses as a mobilizing tool. She conducted fieldwork in Central America, the DRC, and India, and worked on several research projects in the EU. Before joining CHRGJ, she was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Law and Development Research Group at the University of Antwerp and with the Center for Governance and Global Affairs at the University of Leiden. Dr. Destrooper obtained her Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, where she specialized in the relationship between armed conflict, social movements, and gender.

Raina Elise Fox received her M.A. in Public Humanities from Brown University in 2014, with a focus on global social justice, memory studies, and civic engagement. She has worked with art and history museums, creative non-profits, universities, historic sites, international development and community-based programs in the United States in Minneapolis, Washington DC, Providence, Chicago, and Boston, as well as in Hong Kong, India, and elsewhere. She is currently working as Programs Manager at an international development educational non-profit organization, Millennium Campus Network, based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Maia Carter Hallward, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Middle East Politics and International Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University. She is author of Transnational Activism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada (University of Florida Press, 2011) and co-editor of Understanding Nonviolence (Polity Press, 2015). Her articles have appeared in journals including International Negotiation, International Political Sociology, Journal of Peace Research and Conflict Resolution Quarterly. Maia serves as Executive Editor for the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and is a co-editor for the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association Compendium Project. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from American University’s School of International Service.

Landon E. Hancock, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University. His research foci include the role and dynamics of identity formation and change in conflict and conflict resolution, issues of identity in transitional justice and the roles that identity and agency play in conflict mitigation and peacebuilding. He is co-editor (with Chris Mitchell) of Zones of Peace (2007) and Local Peacebuilding and National Peace (2012). He has published articles in Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Ethnopolitics, International Studies Perspectives, International Studies Review, Irish Political Studies, Journal of Peace Education, Peace & Change, National Identities and Social Psychology.

Erik W. Johnson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington State University studying social movements and social change. His research examines the mobilization, development, and outcomes of environmental movements in the United States and abroad. This research has been published in leading disciplinary journals, including Social Forces, Social Problems, Rural Sociology, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

Ana Ljubojević is Newfelpro postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity, Citizenship and Migration, Faculty of Political Sciences in Zagreb, Croatia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Political systems and institutional change at the Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. Her thesis examined the impact of war crime trials on historical narratives in Croatia and Serbia. Currently, she is doing research within International Criminal Tribunals as actors of domestic change project at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland, and Framing the nation project at the University of Rijeka, Croatia.

Michael Loadenthal, Ph.D., is a multi-site Adjunct Professor currently teaching at the University of Cincinnati, George Mason University, and Georgetown University. Michael also serves as an anti-poverty research fellow with the Center for the Study of Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems and teaches classes annually for the University of Malta and the JCI Scholars Program, providing college classes to prisoners in Baltimore, Maryland. Michael has been a political organizer for the past 17 years and has helped to organize mass convergences and counter-institutions on four continents. His research focuses on political violence, social movements, terrorism, and discourse. He regularly publishes in a variety of forums and posts all of his work online for free at Academia.edu. When he’s not knee deep in a stack of books, he’s raising two inspiring daughters, and helping to organize internationally against the criminalization of political dissent.

Greg Prieto is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego. His research focuses on the various ways Mexican immigrants manage and contest their legal and political marginalization. His work has appeared in Latino Studies, The American Sociologist, and The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants (Routledge, 2014). His first book, tentatively titled Everyday Movements: Immigrant Lives and Immigrant Action in the Deportation Nation, is under contract with New York University Press.

Jonathan P. Schreiner is Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University and is currently teaching at Washington State University Vancouver. His research explores the intersection of race, ethnicity, technology, and knowledge through investigating participant experiences with Genetic Ancestry Testing.