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Political and Social Issues

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Anja Durovic
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2
Marta Lorimer
Cardiff University
3
Francesco Tamburini
University of Pisa
4
Hayette Nemouchi
Centre of Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology
5
Iris Brey
New York University
6
Ragnar Weilandt
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
7
Sabine Pitteloud
University of Geneva
8
Massensen Cherbi
Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas
9
Frances Egan
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute
10
Inès Gharbi
University of Carthage

Rising Stars Papers

1
Populism, euroscepticism, and the populism-euroscepticism nexus
Open Research Europe|2026
20 cit.
2
Assessment of the Agroecological Transition of Farms in Central Tunisia Using the TAPE Framework
Resources|2025
9 cit.
3
Why governments want to learn about citizens' preferences. Explaining the representational logic behind government polling
European Journal of Political Research|2024
6 cit.
4
Dancing with the devil? Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the articulation of a new political divide in France
Nations and Nationalism|2024
4 cit.
5
Swiss Multinationals versus the French Welfare State? The Social Security Deficit, European Integration, and the Battle for ‘Fair’ Drug Prices (1970–1990)
Contemporary European History|2024
3 cit.
6
A series of unfortunate events: the Covid-19 crisis and Tunisia’s democratic backsliding
Contemporary Politics|2025
3 cit.
7
Post-‘Post-Fascism’ and Far Right Mainstreaming in Italy: Assessing Continuity Between the Italian Social Movement, National Alliance and Brothers of Italy
Political Studies|2025
3 cit.
8
Des avancées paradoxales
Revue française de science politique|2024
2 cit.
9
Le Projet de Constitution de la Fédération de France du FLN (mai 1962) : une autre indépendance algérienne
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée|2024
2 cit.
10
International human resource management and political risks: Nestlé in the Global South during the Cold War (1950–1980)
Management & Organizational History|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kevin Koehler
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
2
Maryam Ben Salem
Carthage College
3
Anni Boiro
London School of Economics and Political Science
4
Kateryna Dashevska
University of Lausanne
5
Astrid Harnisch
Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
6
Brahim Rouabah
City University of New York
7
Lise Esther Herman
University of Exeter
8
Hanna Hilbrandt
University of Zurich
9
Steve L. Monroe
Yale-NUS College
10
Ester Sigillò
Scuola Normale Superiore

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics at 160
Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics|2024
184 cit.
2
The French Elections of 2022: Macron's Half Victory in a Changing Political Landscape
JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies|2023
27 cit.
3
Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment
Urban Geography|2023
21 cit.
4
Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia
Democratization|2022
13 cit.
5
Digital media, diasporic groups, and the transnational dimension of anti-regime movements: the case of Hirak in Algeria
Review of Communication|2022
11 cit.
6
URBAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE FINANCE: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research|2022
11 cit.
7
Breakdown by disengagement: Tunisia’s transition from representative democracy
Political Research Exchange|2023
11 cit.
8
Responsibility for housing: Property, displacement, and the rental market
Geoforum|2022
9 cit.
9
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss <i>Sonderfall</i> as a vantage point
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2022
8 cit.
10
Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: home <i>un</i> making through material belongings
Social & Cultural Geography|2022
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John Law
Keele University
2
Bernard Pecqueur
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3
Martin Jay
University of California, Berkeley
4
Éric Gobe
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5
Kevin Mazur
Princeton University
6
Rogers Brubaker
University of California, Los Angeles
7
Bryan S. Turner
Australian Catholic University
8
Gérard Noiriel
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
9
Francesco Cavatorta
Université Laval
10
Laurence Cox
National University of Ireland

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex".
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1995
5.6k cit.
2
Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity
Systemic Practice and Action Research|1992
3.2k cit.
3
Beyond “identity”
Theory and Society|2000
2.8k cit.
4
Ethnicity without groups
European Journal of Sociology|2002
2.6k cit.
5
Modernity and Self-Identity, Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
British Journal of Sociology|1992
2.3k cit.
6
The ‘diaspora’ diaspora
Ethnic and Racial Studies|2004
1.7k cit.
7
Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe
Foreign Affairs|1997
1.4k cit.
8
After Ant: Complexity, Naming and Topology
The Sociological Review|1999
1.3k cit.
9
Enacting the social
Economy and Society|2004
1.2k cit.
10
Regions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology
Social Studies of Science|1994
1.1k cit.

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