Nina Bandelj

Nina Bandelj is an economic sociologist, author and academic. She is a Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Sociology, Associate Vice Provost for faculty development, and co-director of the Center for Organizational Research at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She is also a visiting professor at the IEDC-Bled School of Management and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

Bandelj is most known for her work in economic sociology where she has examined the impacts of culture, politics, and emotions in shaping economic processes with a focus on postsocialist changes, globalization and financialization. She is the author and editor of several books including ''From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Investment in Postsocialist Europe, Socialism Vanquished'', ''Socialism Challenged: Eastern Europe and China'' and ''Money Talks: Explaining How Money Really Works''.

Bandelj is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association. She was a vice-president of the American Sociological Association and President-Elect of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. She served as an editor of ''Socio-Economic Review'' and holds editorial appointments at journals including the ''International Journal of Comparative Sociology'', ''Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology'', ''Druzboslovne Razprave'' and the ''American Journal of Cultural Sociology''. Provided by Wikipedia