Notes on Contributors
Melissa Boissiere
is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at Florida International University. She specializes in international political economy and regional trade agreements. Her dissertation is on the cariforum-eu epa trade agreement between the European Union and Caribbean countries. In the dissertation, she analyzes how corporations based in the EU used their power to affect the agenda and content of this trade agreement in the broader context of neoliberal global capitalism. She has published “Transnational Corporate Power: From Lomé to the cariforum-eu epa” in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power.
Ronald W. Cox
is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. He specializes in international political economy and U.S. foreign policy. He has published six books on corporate power in U.S. and global politics, most recently Corporate Power, Class Conflict and the Crisis of the New Globalization (Lexington Books, 2019). He is editor of the online open access journal, Class, Race and Corporate Power.
Aram Eisenschitz
is Senior Lecturer in Tourism Policy at Middlesex University Business School. His research interests include critical urban theory, tourism, power and class, and place branding. He is co-author with Raju Das and Jamie Gough of The Challenges of the New Social Democracy: Social Capital and Civic Association or Class Struggle (Brill, 2023). His other recent publications are “A Geography for the Common Good,” Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022; “Place Branding and the Neoliberal Class Settlement”, in A Research Agenda for Place Branding, eds. Medway, D., Warnaby, G., and Byrom, J. (Edward Elgar, 2021); and “Place Marketing for Social Inclusion”, in Inclusive Place Branding, eds. Kavaratzis, M., Giovanardi, M., and Lichrou, M. (Routledge, 2018).
Jamie A. Gough
was a lecturer in human geography and urban studies before his escape into retirement. He has published widely on the labor process, local and regional economies, social life and politics, the capitalist state, the contradictions of neoliberalism and Keynesianism, the theorization of social space, and sexual politics. He is co-author with Raju Das and Aram Eisenschitz of The Challenges
Adam D. Hernandez
holds a PhD in Political Science from Florida International University. His research focuses on computational propaganda, digital politics, and corporate power. His other areas of expertise include U.S. foreign policy, international political economy, sportswashing, and U.S.-Portuguese relations. He recently published “Bell Pottinger: Pre-Digital Fake News During the Rise of Neoliberalism” in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power.
Tamanisha J. John
is an Assistant Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics at York University. Her main research interests are Caribbean sovereignty and politics, imperialism, financial exclusion, corporate power, Canadian foreign policy, and Canadian overseas banking. Her most recent publications include: “Haiti in the Caribbean: A Political Economy Perspective on the Urgent Crisis of Imperialism” in the Black Agenda Report, “Canadian Financial Imperialism and Structural Adjustment in the Caribbean” in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power, and “Racialized Financial Exclusion in the Anglophone Caribbean” in the Social and Economic Studies Journal.
Mazaher Koruzhde
is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. He specializes in International Political Economy and the political economy of U.S. geopolitical strategy in the Persian Gulf. His recent article published in Class, Race and Corporate Power is entitled “The Iranian Crisis of the 1970s-1980s and the Formation of the Transnational Investment Bloc.”
Rob Piper
is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at Florida International University. His research interests are international political economy, corporate power, U.S. politics and inequality. He recently published “The Institutional Drivers Contributing to Billionaire Wealth at the Sector Level” in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power.
Bryant William Sculos
is Lecturer ii in the Department of Political Science at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the Politics of Culture section editor for the