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Board 2023–2027

The current executive board coordinates RC42 initiatives, membership communication, and our active participation in International Sociological Association activities.

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Current Board

Officers

Juan Carlos Castillo
President

Juan Carlos Castillo

Universidad de Chile, Chile

Professor at the Department of Sociology, Universidad de Chile, and Director of Research and Publications at the Faculty of Social Sciences. His work focuses on distributive justice, citizenship education, social cohesion, quantitative methods, structural equation modeling, multilevel analysis, and open science.

Distributive justice Citizenship education Social cohesion Open science Quantitative methods
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Lisa Slattery Walker
Secretary / Treasurer

Lisa Slattery Walker

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Professor of Sociology at UNC Charlotte. Her research focuses on small group interaction, nonverbal behaviors, identity, emotions, gender, expectations, and status processes.

Small group interaction Identity Emotions Gender Status processes

Board Members

Charles Puttergill
Board Member

Charles Puttergill

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. His research interests include race, identity, methodology, urban sociology, demography, and research methods.

Race and identity Methodology Urban sociology Demography Research methods
Karla Henríquez Ojeda
Board Member

Karla Henríquez Ojeda

Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Researcher with a background in sociological social psychology and American studies. Her work focuses on activism, social movements, youth, subjectivation, and emotions in Latin American contexts.

Activism Social movements Youth Emotions Latin America
Deepak Kumar Verma
Board Member

Deepak Kumar Verma

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University of Social Sciences, India

Professor at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University of Social Sciences. His work spans social psychology, social inequality, status, development, research methodology, and social justice.

Social inequality Status Development Research methodology Social justice

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