Vincenzo Cicchelli
University of Paris Descartes, Gemass (Paris Sorbonne/CNRS)
France

Vincenzo Cicchelli is Associate Professor at University Paris Descartes and Research Fellow at Gemass (CNRS/Paris Sorbonne). He is the series editor of Youth in a Globalizing World (Brill Publishing, Leyden/Boston). His primary research and teaching interests are in global studies, cosmopolitanism, international comparisons, and youth conditions in the Euromediterranean area. Among his last books: Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d’un monde cosmopolite (forthcoming); (with Cotesta V. and Nocenzi M., eds.), Global Society, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights, Cambridge Scholar Publishing (2013); L’autonomie des jeunes, La documentation Française (2013); L’esprit cosmopolite. Voyages de formation des jeunes en Europe, Presses de SciencesPo (2012),

Massimo Pendenza
University of Salerno
Italy

Massimo Pendenza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Salerno, Italy. His research interests cover Cosmopolitan Sociology, Classical Sociology and Sociology of Europe. He coordinates the Centre of European Studies. His recent publications include “Cosmopolitan nuances in classical sociology: Reshaping conceptual frameworks” (Journal of Classical Sociology, 15(4), 2015), “Radicare il cosmopolitismo. La nozione di 'cosmopolitismo sociale'” (Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2, 2015), (with Inglis D., eds.) Durkheim cosmopolita, Morlacchi (2015) and Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism (ed.), Brill (2014). He has also edited a Special Issue on “Cosmopolitan Sociology/Sociologia del cosmopolitismo” for Quaderni di Teoria Sociale (14, 2014).