Saul Albert
Saul Albert is a lecturer in social science (social psychology) in Communication and Media at Loughborough University. His research explores the technology of social interaction at two ends of the spectrum of formalization. At one end, his work on conversational AI asks which features and mechanisms of human social action can be represented and modeled computationally. At the other, he studies how people make aesthetic judgements and interact while dealing with underdetermined cultural objects and situations. This program spans multiple, often incompatible disciplines, so his work builds methodological interfaces between them.
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen held the position of professor for English linguistics at the University of Konstanz from 1995-2002 and at the University of Potsdam from 2003-2009. From 2009-2013 she was Finland Distinguished Professor for Interactional Linguistics at the University of Helsinki. She is now located in Berlin, Germany. Her recent publications are devoted to the study of prosody and grammar in Interaction, and include monographs and edited volumes such as Interactional Linguistics (co-authored with Margret Selting); Requesting in Social Interaction (co-edited with Paul Drew), and Imperative Turns at Talk (co-edited with Marja-Leena Sorjonen & Liisa Raevaara); as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.
Chase Raymond
Chase Wesley Raymond holds PhDs in Hispanic Linguistics (2014) and Sociology (2016), both from UCLA, and is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research interests lie at the intersection of language and (different facets of) social identity and normativity, in both ordinary and institutional interaction, with a particular emphasis on grammar. His research has appeared in journal outlets across the fields of Linguistics, Sociology, Psychology, Communication Studies, and Medicine, and he is author (with Luis Manuel Olguín) of Análisis de la Conversación: Fundamentos, Metodología y Alcances (Routledge 2022).
Bogdana Huma
Bogdana Huma is an Assistant Professor in the department of Language, Literature, and Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Originally, her background was in psychology and sociology, which she studied at the University of Bucharest in Romania. She discovered conversation analysis (CA) and discursive psychology (DP) quite late, while she was doing her PhD in sociology, and she was captivated by the originality of these new approaches that could make sense of apparently ‘messy’ everyday interaction. So far, her research has used CA, DP and, on occasion, ethnomethodology and membership categorisation analysis to examine commercial encounters, gender inequalities, and, more recently, healthcare interactions.