The Global South Interest Group (GSIG) aims to engage with scholars from regions outside the western world to learn about and to understand the current thinking on development issues including climate change, social inequality, human rights, democracy, education, health, and migration. Our goal is to contribute to critical discussions on development as well as to explore the shifting dynamics of global North-global South relations while placing the global South at the center of these discussions. We wish to understand the theoretical frameworks that have emerged and are emerging from the global South and have animated or are animating development discussions. We believe this exchange of ideas enriches the intellectual field of development sociology and development studies in general.

Members of the American Sociological Association who wish to join the Global South Interest Group are requested to send an email to the GSIG Convener Dr. Devparna Roy at droy9@naz.edu.

The members of the Global South Interest Group (GSIG) are as follows:

Tuba Agartan, Ph.D. (Professor, Health Sciences, Providence College, RI, United States)

Milena Arancibia, Ph.D. (Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, United States; Researcher for the National Scientific and Technical Research Council [CONICET], Buenos Aires University, Argentina)

Andrew Scott Chang, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Florida State University, FL, United States)

Catherine van de Ruit, Ph.D (Associate Professor of Sociology, Ursinus College, PA, United States)

Tomás Gold (Graduate Student; Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame, IN, United States)

Rita Jalali, Ph.D. (Scholar in Residence, Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk, and Society [CHRS], American University, Washington D.C., United States)

Rehana Odendaal (Joint-degree PhD student [Sociology and Education], University of Pennsylvania, PA, United States)

Enrique S. Pumar, Ph.D. (Fay Boyle University Professor, Sociology, Santa Clara University, CA, United States)

Devparna Roy, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor [Sociology & Anthropology] & Director of Global Sustainability Program, Nazareth University, NY, United States): Convener of GSIG.

Gabriel Locke Suchodolski (Graduate Student; PhD Candidate in Sociology, UCLA, CA, United States)

Grace Wang, Ph.D. (Visiting Fellow at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics, United Kingdom)

Esther Anne Victoria Moraes, (PhD Student; Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States)