Roberta Garner is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at DePaul University, USA. Her research explores sociological theory, stats and methods, urban sociology, criminology, and social movements and she has extensive experience of teaching theory, methods, and political sociology. She is the author of The Joy of Stats (Third Edition, 2022) and co-author of Changing Theories: New Directions in Social Theory (2009), Doing Qualitative Research: Designs, Methods, and Techniques (2012) and Rethinking Contemporary Social Theory (Routledge, 2013).

Black Hawk Hancock is Associate Professor of Sociology at DePaul University, USA. His main research interests are ethnography, race and ethnicity, culture, and social theory. He is the author of American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination (2013), and co-author of of Changing Theories: New Directions in Social Theory (2009). From 2019 to 2022, he also served as co-editor of the Sociological Perspectives journal.