Sociology: culture, sociology and social anthropology; cultural globalization and the culture of globalization; globalization and neoliberal structures; transnational movements and globalization; social theory; theories of nationalism ideology, power and resistance; the construction and uses of ethnicity; social networks; economic sociology; migration; urban studies; regional development.
Social Movements: emergence and development of locally or transnationally situated social movements; the relationship of social movements to civil society.
Network Science: an area where ideas concerning behavior and evolution of complex networks from natural sciences are applied to social phenomena and vice versa.