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projects focus on arts networks, cultural heritage institutions, collective memory, changing
forms of creative work, technological innovation, and trans-disciplinary collaboration. She is
on the board of arts research groups in the Association internationale de sociologues de langue
française (GR18) and the International Sociological Association (RC37) and a member of the
International Advisory Board of Cultural Sociology.

Stéphane Moulin is currently an Assistant Professor in social statistics in the Department of
Sociology at the University of Montréal, Canada. He was an alumnus of the ENS Lettres-
Sciences Humaines (Lyon, France), holds a Phd in economics (Aix-Marseille II, France), and
was a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (Paris, France). His research inter-
ests cover the transitions between education and work in France and Canada, the empirical
measure of gender discrimination, and the sociology of social statistics.

Fabien Ohl is the Professor at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) since 2006. Before
that he was the Professor at Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg (France). His main research
topics are on sport consumption and mediasport. He recently developed research on drugs and
doping in sport. Fabien Ohl has published books and papers on sociology of sport; he edited
Sociologie du sport: Perspectives internationales et mondialisation in 2006 (Presses
Universitaires de France). He is also a Vice-President of ISSA (International Sociology of Sport
Association) and ‘Associate Editor’ of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, a
review published by ISSA and Sage.

Sandi Michele de Oliveira is an Associate Professor of Portuguese linguistics in the Department
of Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen and current Co-President of the Research
Committee on Language and Society (RC 25 of the International Sociological Association).
Research areas include the linguistic construction and negotiation of identity within the
Portuguese-speaking world, with ongoing projects on address, cross-cultural comparisons of
politeness, and linguistic acts of identity. Under preparation is a manuscript presenting address and
identity in their kaleidoscopic complexity, as well as an integrated model to aid in their analysis.

Alexius A. Pereira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, National
University of Singapore. He received his PhD (sociology) from the London School of
Economics and Political Science. He is the author of State Collaboration and Development
Strategies in China (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). He is currently researching the social
impact of foreign direct investments and transnational corporations in Asia. Between 2006 and
2010, he is serving as the Vice-President of the International Sociological Association’s
Research Committee 02 (Economy and Society).

Linda Pietrantonio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, University of Ottawa, Canada. Her main areas of expertise are the sociology of
ethnic, race, and gender relations, in which she concentrates on the examination of the discur-
sive aspect of majority/minority social relations. Her research and publications focus on popu-
lar and scientific uses of notions of equality, diversity, and difference. She is currently
developing a meta-analysis of the notion of ‘majority’ and conducting comparative research
(France–Canada) documenting the central role(s) of HIV/AIDS community associations in the
collective appraisal of discrimination for various population groups.
Nikita Pokrovsky is the Head of the Department of General Sociology at the State University-
Higher School of Economics in Moscow and a full Professor of sociology at Moscow