Norine Verberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University. She conducts research on housing inequalities and violence against women, and she is now studying women’s employment patterns and occupational attainment.
nverberg@stfx.ca
Tanya Titchkosky is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Francis Xavier University, where she is developing courses in Disability Studies. Her work in this area focuses on the social constitution of ‘disability identities’ especially as this relates to assistive technology for blind and dyslexic persons. This research, along with a recently completed book manuscript, Disability Stays, is supported by a standard SSHRC grant.
ttitchko@stfx.ca
Klaus P. Japp is teaching Sociology of Risk at University Bielefeld in Germany. His main interests include political sociology and also theory of modern society as frames for research into the risk issue. His more important latest publications are Soziologische Risikotheorie (1996) (Westdeutscher Verlag), Die Beobachtung von Nichtwissen (Soziale Systeme 1997) and an introductory as well as comprehensive book on "Risk" (Traktat Verlag) soon to be published.
Klaus.Japp@uni-bielefeld.de
Karin Knorr Cetina is Professor of Sociology at the Universität Bielefeld, former member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, author of The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (Pergamon, 1981) and of Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Sense (Harvard, 1999), and coauthor of several volumes, including (with Aaron V. Cicourel) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macrosociologies (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981) and (with Michael Mulkay) Science Observed: New Perspectives on the Social Study of Science (Sage, 1983). She is currently writing a book on Global Microstructures: The Interaction Culture of Financial Markets.
Knorr@uni-bielefeld.de
Urs Bruegger is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Bielefeld. He is a former foreign exchange trader at a global investment bank. He wrote a dissertation Wie handeln Devisenhändler? Eine ethnographische Studie (How do foreign exchange traders deal/act? An ethnographic study; unpublished dissertation, St. Gallen 1999).