ABOUT ISA
Internal Organization
The affairs of the ISA are governed by the Assembly of Councils which is composed of all members of the Council of National Associations and the Research Council.
The Council of National Associations consists of one delegate from each member country. The Research Council is composed of representatives of all Research Committees and sponsors scientific activities of the ISA.
The rules of functioning of the Research Committees are detailed in Aims and Requirements for Research Committees.
National Associations can apply for activity grants by submitting an application form.
Every four years at the time of the World Congress, the Assembly of Councils elect the President and Vice-Presidents. Each Council elect 8 members of the Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee administers the affairs of the Association between these meetings, while the ISA Secretariat executes the decisions and handles administrative matters. Officers of the Executive Committee serve on at least one of the following sub-committees:
The remit of the Research Coordinating Committee is to approve the formation of Thematic Groups, to examine applications for the establishment of Working Groups and Research Committees, to review their activities and to put forward to the Executive Committee recommendations on both particular cases and general policy.
Chair | Geoffrey PLEYERS, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, geoffrey.pleyers@uclouvain.be Vice-President, Research Council |
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Members |
Tova BENSKI, College of Management Studies, Israel |
National Associations Liaison Committee coordinates activities of national associations, regular collective members, represented at the Council of National Associations.
Chair | Filomin GUTIERREZ, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines, fcgutierrez@up.edu.ph Vice-President, National Associations |
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Members |
Chih-Jou Jay CHEN, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
XX ISA World Congress of Sociology Melbourne, Australia, June 25-July 1, 2023
Program Committee Chair | Sari HANAFI, ISA President, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
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ISA Vice-Presidents | Geoffrey PLEYERS,Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Filomin GUTIERREZ, University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines Eloísa MARTIN, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Sawako SHIRAHASE, University of Tokyo, Japan |
Members of ISA Research Coordinating Committee |
Hiroshi ISHIDA, University of Tokyo, Japan Allison LOCONTO, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France Susan MCDANIEL, University of Victoria, Canada Nazanin SHAHROKNI, Syracuse University, USA |
Members ISA National Associations Liaison Committee |
Grace KHUNOU, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (resigned April 2022) |
Local Organizing Committee | Dan WOODMAN, University of Melbourne, Australia |
2 Invited ISA Members external to Executive Committee |
Armando SALVATORE, McGill University, Canada |
Fourth ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 23-28, 2021
Forum President | Geoffrey PLEYERS, ISA Vice-President Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
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Forum Vice-Presidents | Sari HANAFI, ISA President, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Hermilio SANTOS, Chair, Local Organizing Committee, PUCRS, Brazil |
Members of the Research Coordinating Committee |
Tova BENSKI, College of Management Studies, Israel Jan FRITZ, University of Cincinnati, USA Koichi HASEGAWA, Tohoku University, Japan Hiroshi ISHIDA, University of Tokyo, Japan Allison LOCONTO, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France Susan MCDANIEL, University of Victoria, Canada Rhoda REDDOCK, University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago Ayse SAKTANBER, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Celi SCALON, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Nazanin SHAHROKNI, London School of Economics, United Kingdom |
The Publications Committee supervises journals and books published by the ISA and proposes policies in the area of publications.
Chair |
Eloísa MARTIN, United Arab Emirates University, UAE, eloisamartin@hotmail.com |
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Editors | Current Sociology | Karim MURJI, University of West London, United Kingdom Sarah NEAL, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom |
International Sociology | Gabriel KESSLER, IdIHCS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata/CONICET & IDAES/Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina Juan Ignacio PIOVANI, Universidad Nacional de La Plata & IdIHCS, UNLP/CONICET, Argentina |
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International Sociology Reviews | Junpeng LI, Central China Normal University, China | |
Sage Studies in International Sociology | Chaime MARCUELLO SERVÓS, University of Zaragoza, Spain | |
eSymposium | Gisela REDONDO-SAMA, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain | |
Social Justice & Democratization Space | Kelvin LOW, National University of Singapore, Singapore | |
Global Dialogue | (2023) Breno BRINGEL, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (till 2022) Brigitte AULENBACHER, Johannes Kepler University, Austria (till 2022) Klaus DORRE, University of Jena, Germany |
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Executive Committee Representatives | Allison LOCONTO, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France Susan MCDANIEL, University of Victoria, Canada Nazanin SHAHROKNI, London School of Economics, United Kingdom |
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Observer | Chantal SLANEY, SAGE Publications |
The responsibility of the Membership and Finances Committee is to oversee the Association's financial affairs and to propose policies in the area of finance and membership.
Chair | Sawako SHIRAHASE, University of Tokyo, Japan, sshiraha@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp Vice-President, Finance and Membership |
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Members |
Tova BENSKI, College of Management Studies, Israel |
UN office New York | Delegates | Jan Marie FRITZ, University of Cincinnati, USA Rosemary BARBERET, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
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UN office Vienna | Delegate | Rosemary BARBERET, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
Global Development Network | Delegate | Habibul KHONDKER, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates |
International Science Council |
Delegate |
Chih-Jou Jay CHEN, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Geoffrey PLEYERS, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium |
International Institute of Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain |
Delegate | Marta SOLER, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain |
The Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the University Complutense in Madrid is the host of the Secretariat. Activities of the ISA are financed from membership dues and sales of publications.
ISA archives are located at The International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.