Contributors to the issue: Trajectories of Social Evolution
Faixat, José Díez
Independent researcher, Spain.
Widdowson, Marc
Has a PhD in History from Birkbeck College, London, and an MA in Physics and M Phil in Social Anthropology both from Oxford University. He is the director of Amarna Ltd, a micro-company providing theoretical history-based research for clients in government and industry. Over the past 25 years, he...
Tsirel Sergey V.
Russia's mining engineer, a geophysicist, a sociologist, economist and historian. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Senior Researcher at State Research Institute of Rock Mechanics and Mine Surveying (St. Petersburg), the author of more than 100 scientific works on explosives and mining, geophysics, economics,...
Lempert, David
Dr. Lempert is a social scientist, lawyer, Stanford M.B.A., non-profit executive, and educator. He has worked for 30 years in more than 30 countries for the UNDP, UNICEF, UNHCHR, UNHCR, World Bank, USAID, EC, Soros Foundation, several government ministries and parliaments, as well...
Grinin, Anton L.
Anton L. Grinin, PhD in Biological Sciences, is Senior Research Fellow of the International Center for Education and Social and Humanitarian Studies as well as leading Research of Volgograd Centre for Social Research. His main research interests include Big History, evolution,...
LePoire, David
Argonne National Laboratory
Panov, Alexander
Alexander D. Panov graduated from Moscow State University, Department of Physics. At present, he is a senior researcher at the Moscow State University Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics (MSU SINP), and is CSc (Physics and Mathematics)....
Korotayev, Andrey
Head and Professor of the Laboratory for Monitoring of Sociopolitical Destabilization Risks, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, as well as a Senior Research Professor at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of...
Grinin, Leonid
Leonid E. Grinin is Research Professor and Director of the Volgograd Center for Social Research, as well as Deputy Director of the Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Age of Globalization (in Russian), as well as a co-editor of the international journals Social Evolution & History and the Journal of Globalization Studies. His current research interests include Big History and macro-evolution, long-term trends and sociocultural evolution (especially of technology), periodization of history, world-systems studies, long-term development of political systems, globalization studies, and economic cycles. Dr. Grinin is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications in Russian and English, including 22 monographs.
