We are pleased to share that Paul Joosse (HKU, Sociology) will be co-editor of the American Sociological Association's flagship theory journal, Sociological Theory. This is the first time the journal editorship will be hosted at an institution outside of North America.

Paul Joosse’s work spans the classical/contemporary divide, putting Weber into dialogue with several schools of theory that postdate him, but which (as his efforts at translation and interpretation show) he anticipated, including the performative turn in cultural sociology, symbolic interactionism, and gender theory. Empirically, this work is informed by long-standing engagements with a range of cases, including the historical rise of environmental social movements, new religious movements (‘cults’), protest in Hong Kong, the wartime leadership of Volodymyr Zelensky, and the charismatic populism of Donald Trump. Most recently, Joosse has begun to use machine learning and agent-based simulations to answer long-standing but heretofore inaccessible theoretical questions. With this comprehensive empirical-theoretical weave, he aspires to emulate the best examples from the tradition of ‘generalist’ theory—namely, work that is broadly informed and widely relevant, and which works to increase coherence and clarity across the discipline itself. 

Website: https://www.asanet.org/paul-joosse-named-co-editor-of-sociological-theory/