Pertti Alasuutari
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Tampere

Pertti Alasuutari is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the International School of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and has published widely in the areas of cultural and media studies and qualitative methods. His books include Desire and Craving; A Cultural Theory of Alcoholism (SUNY Press 1992), Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies (Sage, 1995), An Invitation to Social Research (Sage 1998) Rethinking the Media Audience (Sage 1999), and Social Theory and Human Reality (Sage 2004).

Jody Berland
Associate Professor
York University

Jody Berland is an Associate Professor and a member of the graduate programs in Communication and Culture, the Department of Music, and the Graduate Programme of Social and Political Thought at York University.  Her teaching and research interests include cultural theory; Canadian communication theory; cultural studies of nature, science, technology and the environment; music and the media; space and place.  In addition to publishing on such a wide range of topics, Dr. Berland is also one of three North American representatives to the international board of the Association of Cultural Studies. She also serves as editor of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, published by University of Toronto Press and edited at York. Currently, she is completing a book-length manuscript on culture, technology and space, entitled North of Empire: Culture and the Technologies of Space.

Kuan-Hsing Chen
Professor
Centre for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies
National Tsing Hua University

Kuan-Hsing Chen is Professor in the Center for Asia-Pacific/ Cultural Studies, NTHU, Taiwan. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Singapore, Korea, China, Japan, and the U.S. He has published extensively in both Chinese and English, including edited volumes in English: Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (Routledge 1996; with David Morley) Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge 1998) and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader (Routledge 2007; with Chua Beng Huat); and in Chinese: Cultural Studies in Taiwan (2000) and The Partha Chatterjee Seminar--Locating Political Society: Modernity, State Violence and Postcolonial Democracies (2000). His own books include Media/Cultural Criticism: A Popular-Democratic Line of Flight (1992, in Chinese), and The Imperialist Eye (2003, in Korean). Towards de-imperialization—Asia as method (2006, in Chinese) is a more recent publication. He was founding chair of the Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan and is on the board of the international Association for Cultural Studies. A member of the Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, he has been a co-executive editor of the journal, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies since 2000.

George Dei
Professor
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

George Sefa Dei is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the OISE/UT. He is author of Schooling and Education in Africa (2004); Anti-Racism Education (1996) and Hardships and Survival in Rural West Africa (1992). He is the co-author of Playing the Race Card: White Power and Privilege (2004) and Reconstructing ‘Drop-out’:A Critical Ethnography of the Dynamics of Black Students’ Disengagement from School (1996). He has co-edited seven books, including: The Poetics of Anti-Racism (2006); Anti-Colonialism and Education (2006); African Education and Globalization (2006); Schooling and Difference in Africa (2006); Critical Issues in Anti-Racist Research Methodologies (2005); and Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts (2000). Professor Dei has served as a board member for several community-based organizations in Ontario. He is a member and founder of several advisory committees on education, and has received numerous awards.

Henry Giroux
Professor
Department of English and Cultural Studies
McMaster University

Henry Giroux is the Global Television Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. He lectures frequently both in the United States and abroad and his research focuses on a variety of issues including cultural studies, youth, critical pedagogy, democratic theory, public education, social theory, and the politics of higher education. Professor Giroux has published extensively in a wide ranging number of scholarly journals and books. His most recent books include: Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post Civil rights Era (2004); The Terror of Neoliberalism (2004);  Border Crossings (2005) and  Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life (2005); Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics After Abu Ghraib (2005); America on the Edge: Henry Giroux on Politics, Culture, and Education (2006); The Giroux Reader (2006);  Beyond the Spectacle of Terrorism (2006), Stormy Weather: Katrina and the Politics of Disposability (2006), and The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (2007).

Ann Gray
Professor
Department of Media Production
University of Lincoln

Ann Gray is Professor of Cultural Studies at UL and Co-director Centre for European Cultural Studies. Her main research interests are in media and popular culture but she has focused more recently on television studies in particular. Her first book Video Playtime: the gendering of a leisure technology was a study of the uses of the video cassette recorder, relating this to an understanding of media use in everyday life with particular reference to gender. In addition to writing on aspects of feminist cultural studies, she has also written about the intellectual and institutional politics of research methods in her book Research Practice for Cultural Studies. Professor Gray also has a strong interest in the history of cultural studies. In 1993, with Jim McGuigan, she edited Studying Culture : an introductory reader and in 1996 with Helen Baehr Turning it On : a reader in women and media. In 2005, Professor Gray, working with her colleague, Dr Jirina Smejkalova secured a British Academy grant for their project ‘Re-thinking Cultural Studies in the New Europe’ (link) which has established a European network of cultural researchers who are bringing different intellectual histories and perspectives to cultural studies.

Larry Grossberg
Professor
Department of Communication Studies
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lawrence Grossberg is Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies. His research interests include cultural studies and cultural theory (including Marxist, feminist, British, "postcolonial," post-structuralist, and postmodernist); modern and contemporary philosophy; popular music (rock culture) and popular culture; contemporary political culture of the U.S. He has published numerous books and edited collections. These include It's a Sin: Essays on Postmodernism, Politics and Culture (1988), We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (1992), Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays in Popular Culture (1997) and Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics and America’s Future (2005). His current research focuses on other Modernities, contemporary US political & economic struggles, state of youth in the US.

John Hartley
Professor
Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CECII)
Queensland University of Technology

Patti Lather
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Ohio State University

Patti Lather is a Professor in the Cultural Foundations program at Ohio State University where she teaches qualitative research and gender and education. She has held visiting positions at the University of British Columbia, Goteborg University, York University, the Danish Pedagogy Institute, the Humanities Research Institute, University of California-Irvine and a 1989 Fulbright to New Zealand. She is the author of Getting Smart: Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern that received a 1991 Critics Choice Award, Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS, co-authored with Chris Smithies, that received a 1998 CHOICE Award, and Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science (SUNY Press, 2007).

Meaghan Morris
Professor
Department of Cultural Studies
Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Meaghan Morris is Professor at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia; and  Chair Professor of Cultural Studies and Coordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She works on rhetorics of nationality in colonial and transnational conditions and her recent books include Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture (2006), Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-ed. with Siu-leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu, 2005); New Keywords: a Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (co-ed with Tony Bennett and Lawrence Grossberg, 2005); and “Race” Panic and the Memory of Migration (co-ed. with Brett de Bary, 2001) She is Senior Editor of Traces: a Multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation, and Chair of the Association for Cultural Studies.

Mica Nava
Professor
School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies
University of East London

Mica Nava is Professor of Cultural Studies at UEL. Her work includes Gender and Generation; Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism; Modern Times: A Century of English Modernity; and Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption. She is a member of several editorial advisory boards and has been the editor of Feminist Review for ten years. She also has been a consultant for funding applications for AHRB, ESRC, British Academy, Leverhulme, Australian Research Council and Austrian Science Fund and has been a reader of manuscripts and proposals for Routledge, Sage, Polity, Blackwell, Manchester UP and Arnold publishers. In 2000 she was invited by the ESRC to be author/consultant of the original proposal for the Cultures of Consumption research programme, subsequently approved and allocated £5million. In 2003, she was awarded an AHRB award to work on her current book Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference.

Roger Simon
Professor
Department of Sociology and Equity Studies
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

Roger I. Simon is Professor of Culture, Communications and Critical Education in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Education at the University of Toronto. Professor Simon is also Director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Media and Culture in Education. He has published widely on questions of history memory and practices of remembrance. His latest book is The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2005. Most recently he has published articles in The Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Museums and Society, and the Journal of Museum Education. He is also collaborating with the Musée de la civilisation (Québec) on the development of an international exhibition entitled The Terrible Gift: Difficult Memories for the 21st Century.

Graham Smith
Professor
Department of Education
University of Auckland

Graham Hinangaroa Smith is a prominent Maori education scholar who has been at the forefront of alternative Maori initiatives in the education field and beyond. His recent academic work has centered on developing theoretically informed transformative strategies related to intervening in Maori cultural, political, social, educational and economic crises. He is involved in the development of Tribal Universities and is the recently retired foundation Chairperson of Te Whare Wananga O Awanuiarangi Council – an institution that has grown to become an indigenous PhD granting Academy. In his former position as Pro Vice Chancellor (Maori), he was responsible for developing a Maori University structure within the University of Auckland. He has contributed widely to educational developments for Maori and indigenous peoples across many fronts within the Tertiary education sector.

Sonjah Stanley-Niaah
Lecturer and Rhodes Trust/Rex Nettleford Fellow in Cultural Studies, 2005
Institute of Caribbean Studies
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus

Stanley-Niaah is the inaugural Rhodes Trust Rex Nettleford Fellow in Cultural Studies (Caribbean, 2005) and is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies ¢ Mona Campus (Jamaica). She is currently working on three book projects including ¡Out of Many, One Dancehall: Performance Geographies from Slave Ship to Ghetto¢. Dr. Stanley-Niaah has presented papers on popular culture, specifically dancehall culture, South African kwaito and the Blues at several regional and international conferences and has published articles in book chapters and Journals such as Space and Culture, Discourses in Dance, Caribbean Quarterly, Jamaica Journal, African Identities, Small Axe and Wadabagei.  She is an Associate Editor of Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Diasporas.

Keyan Tomaselli
Professor, Research Director and Outreach Coordinator in Culture Communication and Media Studies (CCMS)
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Keyan Tomaselli is a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, where he is also Director of the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies. Professor Tomaselli's seminal books include The Cinema of Apartheid (Lake View Press, Chicago, 1988); and Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation (Intervention Press, Denmark, 1996). In addition, Professor Tomaselli has worked in the film industry and serves on a number of editorial boards, including for such journals as Media, Culture & Society, Para*doxa, Continuum, Visual Anthropology, SA Theatre Journal. His interests are in political economy, African cinema and visual anthropology.