| Abolafia | Beunza | Callon | Hagglund |
| Cetina | Millo | Lépinay | Muniesa |
| Preda | Riles | Scott | Stark | Thrift | Zaloom |

Mitchell Abolafia
State University of Albany
abolafia@csc.albany.edu
http://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/pad/faculty/abolafia/abolafia.htm

Mitchel Abolafia's research interests focus on the application of organization theory to the study of monetary policy,financial markets, and bureaucratic politics. He has written articles on economic competition, hyper-rationality, and market culture. His recent book, Making Markets (Harvard University Press, 1997), is a comparative study of the trading floor in the bond, stock and futures markets. His current research examines policy making at the Federal Reserve Board.

Daniel Beunza
New York University
Dbeunza@stern.nyu.edu

Daniel Beunza is a PhD candidate in Management at the Stern School of Business of New York University. He is also a research associate at the Center for Organizational Innovation. He holds a bachelor and master's degrees in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and has worked as consultant in microeconomics for National Economic Research Associates (NERA) in Madrid. Daniel's research interest is on the social determinants of value, new forms of organization and new technologies. He is a Fellow in the Corporation as a Social Institution program at the Social Science Research Council.

Michel Callon
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris.
Callon@csi.ensmp.fr
http://www.csi-mines.org/

Michel Callon is Professor of sociology at the Ecole des mines de Paris, and a researcher at the Center for the sociology of Innovation. Together with Bruno Latour and John Law he was responsible for the early development of what is actually known as Actor-Network Theory. He is now working on the anthropology of economic markets (He was the editor of a book called The Laws of the markets published by Blackwell which shows the role of economics in performatting economies). He is also working with Vololona Rabeharisoa on the role of patients organizations in the production of knowledge. He has recently published, with Pierre Lascoumes and Yannick Barthe, a book in french on the technical democracy (Agir dans un monde incertain. Essai sur la democratie technique. Paris. Le Seuil. 2001)

Peter B Hagglund, Ph.D.
Stockholm School of Economics Centre for Advanced Studies of Leadership
peter.hagglund@hhs.se

Peter has been studying how analysts and investors work in the stock markets since 1998, defending his dissertation in september 2001. Titled "The firm as an investment object; how investors and security analysts work to create investment objects", it focused on how the communication between investors and analysts enabled the translation of a company to an investment object. It was published in Swedish. His present research centers on the relationship between the investment object (as it exists in the stock market) and the production object as it exists among top- and middle management. These different creations will be contrasted to illuminate the influence of the financial markets on organizing, leadership and operations of the company.

Karin Knorr Cetina
University of Konstanz
karin.knorr@uni-konstanz.de

Karin Knorr Cetina is Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany and member of the Institute for Global Society Studies at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. She has published widely in the new sociology of science, where her books include "The Manufacture of Knowledge" (Oxford 1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (Harvard Univ. Press 1999) which won the Robert K. Merton Professonal Award and the Ludwik Fleck Prize (both in 2001). Together with Urs Bruegger, she has used ethnographic methods to study institutional currency trading at global investment banks on which she and Bruegger published several articles(including "Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets," American Journal of Sociology, January 2002). She is currently visiting at Princeton Unversity, doing further research and writing a book on financial markets which addresses their global nature and their knowledge and information aspects.

Yuval Millo
University of Edinburgh
Y.Millo@sms.ed.ac.uk
http://www.ssu.ssc.ed.ac.uk/millo.html

Yuval Millo is currently a Ph.D. student at the Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburgh. (Thesis advisors: Prof. David Bloor and Prof. Donald MacKenzie). His research project is focused on the history of financial derivatives markets, concentrating on the part that technology took in the social shaping of these markets. His research project studies financial markets in a two-fold way. Firstly, the study examines the events and ideas that surrounded the formation of one of today's pioneering derivatives markets, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Secondly, the research studies the ways in which mathematical pricing models were included in the infrastructure of today's financial markets. Specifically, Millo studies the technological evolution of the models' applications (the move from single-position calculation to scenario-simulating systems) as well as the regulatory implications of the models had (the changes made in SEC, CFTC and Federal Reserve rules). In the historical study of derivatives markets he also describes the circumstances of the SEC-CFTC agreement (Shad-Johnson accord) and the impact of the October 1987 market break on financial derivatives.

Vincent-Antonin Lépinay
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris
Lepinay@csi.ensmp.fr
http://www.csi-mines.org/

Vincent-Antonin Lépinay is completing his PhD in Economics at the CSI in Paris. He has conducted a series of fieldworks in a major French bank in order to understand how innovations circulated in big financial corporations. It was also a way to understand, from the inside, how markets were built and how their building reshaped the organizations that performed them. He was trained in science studies during his master, which he achieved under the supervision of Bruno Latour at the EHESS.

Fabian Muniesa
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Paris
muniesa@csi.ensmp.fr
http://www.csi-mines.org/
http://www.rd.francetelecom.com/index.htm.en.php

Fabian Muniesa is a PhD student at the CSI (Paris School of Mines) and at the UCE laboratory (France Télécom R&D). He is preparing a dissertation on electronic trading systems in the financial markets. He has published several articles on the topic. He is the co-editor of a special issue of the French journal Politix devoted to the sociology of financial markets (vol. 13, n. 52, 2000).

Alex Preda
University of Konstanz,Germany
Alex.Preda@janus.rz.uni-konstanz.de

Alex Preda is a sociologist of knowledge and science in the Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz. His present research focuses on the embeddedness of financial activities in knowledge practices. He aims at combining historical and contemporary ethnographic research. In recent years, he did research on popular forms of financial knowledge in the 19th century, as well as on financial conversations in the 18th century. Among my recent publications are "Financial Knowledge, Documents, and the Structures of Financial Activities" (Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 31/2), "The Rise of the Popular Investor: Financial Knowledge and Investing in England and France, 1840-1880" (The Sociological Quarterly 42/2) and "In the Enchanted Grove: Financial Conversations and the Marketplace in England and France in the 18th Century" (Journal of Historical Sociology 14/3). Currently, he is working on a book about the cultures of financial markets in the 18th century.

Annelise Riles
Northwestern University
a-riles@law.northwestern.edu
http://www.abf-sociolegal.org/riles.html

Annelise Riles holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.Sc in Social Anthropology from the University of London (London School of Economics), and an A.B. from Princeton University. Her research focuses on the character of information and technology in transnational legal and institutional settings. She holds a joint appointment at the ABF with Northwestern University School of Law. Riles's work aims to analyze artifacts of modern institutional practices such as legal documents, conferences, organizational networks, graphical representations of economic markets and market activity, the uses of computer and other technologies, and the character of corporate, institutional, and individual personhood. Her research interests focus on the Asia-Pacific region (especially China, Japan, and the Republic of Fiji), and on Western Europe (especially France and England). She has conducted anthropological fieldwork among delegates to United Nations global conferences, and among mixed race peoples in the Republic of Fiji (and served as consultant on mixed race peoples to the Fiji Constitutional Review Commission in 1994). She currently is conducting fieldwork among dealers, traders, and regulators on the commodity and security futures markets in Tokyo and Chicago.

Susan Scott
London School of Economics Department of Information Systems
s.v.scott@lse.ac.uk
http://is.lse.ac.uk/staff/scott/

Dr Susan Scott is currently a lecturer at The London School of Economics where she pursues research focusing of the role of information systems in the transformation of financial services. She is involved in taught courses on IS issues for social scientists, and inter-organizational information systems. She is also supervising two Ph.D. students focusing on strategic alliances, and enterprise resource planning. Her background includes degrees in African History and Politics (SOAS), Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems (LSE), and a Ph.D. in Management (Cambridge).

David Stark
Columbia University
dcs36@columbia.edu
http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/people/index.html?professors/dcs36/index.html

David Stark is Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is an External Faculty Member of the Santa Fe Institute. A major contributor to the new economic sociology, Stark examines problems of worth and value in various organizational contexts. Stark is currently studying the coevolution of collaborative organizational forms and interactive technologies. His research in New York City includes an ethnographic study of a new media startup followed through boom and bust, and the analysis of socio-technical networks in the trading room of an international investment bank before and after its relocation in the wake of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th. Supported by major grants from the National Science Foundation, Stark's current research in Eastern Europe includes a multi-country study of how non-governmental organizations use new information technologies, and a longitudinal analysis of the patterns of ownership and organizational change among the largest 1800 Hungarian enterprises during the past decade of transformation.

Nigel Thrift
University of Bristol, UK
N.J.Thrift@bristol.ac.uk
http://gmb.ggy.bris.ac.uk/staff/thrift/

Nigel Thrift is a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and a Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol. He is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and has been a member of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences. His chief research interests currently are concerned with new technological backgrounds, especially those occasioned by mobile telecommunications, the changing nature of cities, international finance and new forms of adaptive capitalism, social and cultural theory, and the history of time consciousness. His most recent publications include Spatial Formations (1996), Money/Space (with Andrew Leyshon, 1997), Shopping, Place and Identity (with Danny Miller, Peter Jackson, Beverley Holbrook and Mike Rowlands, 1998), City A-Z (co-edited with Steve Pile, 2000), Thinking Space (co-edited with Mike Crang, 2000), Cities For All the People Not the Few (with Ash Amin, Doreen Massey, 2000), Timespace (co-edited with Jon May, 2001), Cities (with Ash Amin, 2002) and The Cultural Geography Handbook (co-edited with Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh and Steve Pile, 2002).

Caitlin Zaloom
University of California, Berkely
zaloom@uclink.berkeley.edu

Caitlin Zaloom is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation, Risk and Reason: From the Pits to the Screen in Financial Futures Markets, analyzes the technological transformation of the financial futures industry in Chicago and London, and examines the forms and techniques of speculative economic action. For the study she conducted twelve months of ethnographic research in trading floors and dealing rooms in Chicago and London. In Chicago, she worked as a clerk on the open-outcry trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. In London, she trained in methods of speculation and traded German treasury futures in an all-electronic market. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and funded by the Social Science Research Council, Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation and Center for European Studies of the University of California.