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Position:Dutch sociologist
Born in Diessen, Thomassen obtained his MA in Sociology in 1968 at the Tilburg University, where in 1976 he also obtained his PhD in the Social Sciences.[4] In 1968 he started his academic career as assistant professor at the Tilburg University. After his graduation in 1977 he was appointed Professor of Political science at the University of Twente, where he served the rest of academic career. He was Dean of the faculty of Political science in the years 1985–87 and 1993–93. Over the years he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Mannheim University, European University Institute and Australian National University.[4] In the years 1986–87 and 2002–03 he was fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (NIAS). Since 1991 he is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] His research interests include "Democratic theory, political representation, electoral research and legitimacy in the European Union."[5]
Position:Social psychologist
After completing his master's degree in social psychology and group development at Columbia University and completing his rabbinical studies, Schwartz received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and subsequently taught in the sociology department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and in 1973 became a professor. From 1971 to 73, Schwartz was a visiting lecturer in the department of psychology at the Hebrew University. In 1979, Schwartz moved to Israel with his wife and three children. He joined the department of psychology at the Hebrew University, where he holds the post of Leon and Clara Sznajderman Professor Emeritus of Psychology. He is now retired, but continues his research activity, as well as developing and promoting his Basic Human Values Theory. During the 1970s and 1980s, Schwartz was following the studies of Geert Hofstede about human values and built upon them in his research on pro-social and altruistic behavior. His research has since included studies on the development and consequences of a range of behavioral attitudes and orientations, such as religious belief, political orientation and voting, social group relations, consumer behavior, as well as the conceptualization of human values across cultures. Schwartz is a fellow of the American Psychological Foundation and is a member of the American Sociological Foundation, European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, the Israel Psychological Association, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He coordinates an international project in more than 70 countries that studies the antecedents and consequences of individual differences in value priorities and the relations of cultural dimensions of values to societal characteristics and policies. His value theory and instruments are part of the ongoing, biannual European Social Survey.
Position:Professor of Sociology
My main research area is social stratification - including studies of educational inequality, the class structure, and social mobility. My interest in intergenerational processes also incorporates the study of children's well-being. I am also engaged in studies of ethnic stratification. I am the PI for Sweden in a comparative project on the integration of ethnic minority school children (CILS4EU), led by Frank Kalter, Universität Mannheim. As I am responsible for the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey (LNU) (Level-of-Living (LNU)), I have an interest in research in the level and distribution of welfare.
Position:British political scientist and professor
From 1981 to 1983 Curtice was a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.[10][1][11] Curtice was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool from 1983 to 1988, then a lecturer and senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde from 1988 to 1997[1] before being promoted to Professor in 1998. Curtice serves as president of the British Polling Council, vice-chair of the Economic and Social Data Service's Advisory Committee and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Elections, the Executive Committee of the British Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, and the Policy Advisory Committee of the Institute for Public Policy Research.[3] He was formerly a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the steering committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project. Curtice has frequently appeared on BBC News during broadcast coverage of general elections in the United Kingdom, giving his predictions of the results in 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2017.[12] With David Firth he developed the methodology used in the exit poll estimation used in the general election coverage.[13] He has picked up a strong following on social media, and was mentioned frequently on Twitter during the 2017 election, though he shuns this attention, adding "I've no wish to become a media celebrity".
I have been a part of Oxford sociology for the last half-century, coming to Oxford in 1970 as a University Lecturer in Sociology. Over the following fifty years my research has ranged widely over many areas, from rational choice theory to electoral behaviour. Most of my research has been based on sample surveys, and I was a very junior member of the team that conducted the landmark 1972 social mobility survey (led by John Goldthorpe and Chelly Halsey at Nuffield College). Subsequently I directed the British Election Surveys of 1983, 1987, 1992 and 1997 (with Roger Jowell and John Curtice) and more recently the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Survey (with Steve Fisher, David Sanders, Maria Sobolewska and Gemma Rosenblatt). I have also broadened my range to include field experiments designed to test whether racial discrimination continues to occur in the British labour market. (It does.) I have also worked with various national and international bodies such as UNDP (on social cohesion and trust in Bosnia) and OECD (on the integration of ethnic minorities). Currently I am leading a project for the Social Mobility Commission designing a new measurement framework in order to monitor trends in social mobility and to evaluate the effectiveness of government policy. I am also a member of a task force (for the Office For National Statistics) aimed to improve the collection of equalities data across government and to ensure that ‘everyone counts, and is counted, and no one is forgotten’.
Position:Director
Position:Professor
Daisy L. Machado serves as Professor of Church History. Her scholarship focuses specifically on United States Christianities. She is the first U.S. Latina ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1981 in the Northeast Region and has served inner city congregations in Brooklyn, Houston, and Fort Worth.
Caleb Rosado is Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences at Odessa College, in Odessa, TX. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University, a Master’s in New Testament Studies from Andrews University, and a Bachelors in Theology from Pacific Union College. He has taught in diverse academic settings in the United States, the UK, and in Latin America. These venues include: community colleges; small to midsize private colleges and universities; and large state universities. He has served as department chair in two schools, and as director of a branch campus in Chicago. His areas of expertise in sociology are: Race Relations, Theory, Urban, Religion, Latina/o Studies, and Wisdom/Ethics. Dr. Rosado has also been a human systems consultant since 1978. He has worked on issues of human relations and human systems change with government agencies; universities; K-12 school districts; corporations; churches; and community organizations. He has studied religion and social change in revolutionary Cuba, refugee life in internment camps in Thailand, street life in England, and cultural life in Spain. He has written three books and numerous professional articles. His latest publication, in his current area of research focus (quantum physics and urban transformation), is titled “Context Determines Content: Quantum Physics as a Framework for “Wholeness” in Urban Transformation.” Published in the September 2008 issue of the Urban Studies Journal. Prior to coming to Odessa College, Caleb taught full-time at Warner Pacific College heading up the Urban Studies Program, and part-time at Chemeketa Community College in Woodburn, OR, teaching Sociology and Chicano Studies.