Summer 2015 Co‐chairs Patrick Baert Cambridge University, United Kingdom pjnb100@cam.ac.uk Agnes Ku Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong soagnes@ust.hk Secretary / Treasurer Bradley West University of South Australia, Australia brad.west@unisa.edu.au Newsletter Editors Erik Schneiderhan University of Toronto, Canada e.schneiderhan@utoronto.ca Daniel Silver University of Toronto, Canada dsilver@utsc.utoronto.ca Board Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University, USA Craig Browne, Sydney University, Australia Fuyuki Kurasawa, York University Canada Martina Loew, Free University, Berlin, Germany Hans Peter Mueller, Humbolt University Berlin, Germany Philip Smith, Yale University, USA Lynette Spillman, University of Notre Dame, USA Frederic Vandenberghe, Universidada Estatal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gilles Verpraet, École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France Ronald Jacobs, ex offico Guiseppe Sciortino, ex officio THEORY INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION The Newsletter of the Research Committee on Sociological Theory 1