Associate Professor Fran Collyer is a sociologist at the University
of Sydney in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy. She is
Senior Editorial Adviser to the Health Sociology Review, and on the
Editorial Advisory Board of Sociology, a Journal of the British
Sociological Association. Her research interests span the sociology
of knowledge and the sociology of health and medicine. Research has
focused on the history of sociology, the formation of disciplines
and institutions, the globalisation of knowledge, the privatisation
of healthcare services, the sociology of the healthcare systems and
its inequalities. Recent books include Mapping the Sociology of
Health and Medicine (2012), for which she won the Stephen Crook
Memorial Award for the best Australian monograph 2012–13, and the
Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine
(2015). More detail:
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/sociology_social_policy/staff/profiles/fran.collyer.php
Raewyn Connell is Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney,
and a life member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Recent
books are Gender Reckonings (with James Messerschmidt, Michael
Messner and Patricia Yancey Martin 2018), Gender: In World
Perspective (with Rebecca Pearse 2015), and Southern Theory (2007).
Her work has been translated into nineteen languages. Raewyn has
taught at universities in Australia, Canada, Germany and the USA,
and is a long-term participant in the labour movement and peace
movement. More detail: www.raewynconnell.net. João Maia lives in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Sociology and currently
teaches in the School of Social Sciences (CPDOC) at Fundação
Getulio Vargas. He has done research on the history of social
sciences, Brazilian social thought and sociological theory in the
global South. His most recent articles in English are ‘History of
sociology and the quest for intellectual autonomy in the global
South: the cases of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos and Syed Hussein
Alatas’ (Current Sociology 2014) and ‘Space, social theory and
peripheral imagination: de-colonial debates and Brazilian
intellectual history’ (International Sociology 2011). João also
blogs (in Portuguese) about sociology and public life in:
avidapublicadasociologia.wordpress.com Robert Morrell was born and
lives in South Africa. He is an historian by training and currently
works in Research Development in the Office of the Vice Chancellor
at the University of Cape Town. Robert’s major research activity
has concentrated on questions of gender in Africa with a specific
focus on masculinities in Southern Africa. Among his books are From
Boys to Gentlemen: Settler Masculinity in Colonial Natal (2001) and
(with Debbie Epstein, Elaine Unterhalter, Deevia Bhana and
Relebohile Moletsane) Towards Gender Equality (2009). He has edited
Changing Men in Southern Africa (2001) and (with Lahoucine Ouzgane)
African Masculinities (2005). A new area of his research is in the
area of knowledge production. Together with Brenda Cooper, Robert
edited Africa-Centred Knowledges: Crossing Fields and Worlds
(2014).
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