Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board brings together scholars contributing diverse disciplinary, regional, and intellectual perspectives to DDSS. The membership list will be expanded as further appointments are confirmed.
The board offers scholarly advice on the journal’s intellectual direction, decolonial commitments, ethical practices, international connections, and multilingual development. Editorial decisions remain with the responsible editors.
Board members
Rana Sobh
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Professor of Marketing
Institutional affiliation: College of Business and Economics, Qatar University
Country: Qatar
Email: r.sobh@qu.edu.qa
ORCID: 0000-0002-2048-8088
Research interests: Consumer Culture; Marketing Communications; Consumer Psychology
Öznur Yılmaz Altun
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Assistant Professor
Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Artvin Çoruh University
Country: Türkiye
Email: oznurryilmaz@artvin.edu.tr
ORCID: 0000-0002-2392-4463
Research interests: Environmental Studies; Women’s Studies; Animal Studies
Tendai Chari
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor
Institutional affiliation: University of Venda
Country: South Africa
Email: Tendai.Chari@univen.ac.za
ORCID: 0000-0003-4651-0738
Research interests: Political Communication; Digital Media and Politics; Decolonial Theory; Communication Rights; Climate Change Communication
Angélica María Bernal
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor
Institutional affiliation: Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Country: United States
Email: abernal@umass.edu
Research interests: Indigenous Studies; Decolonial Theory; Latin American Politics
Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor
Institutional affiliation: Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, College of Humanities, University of Ghana, Legon
Country: Ghana
Email: asanamzoya@ug.edu.gh
ORCID: 0000-0002-9831-0028
Research interests: Legal Anthropology; Traditional Politics; Migration; Nativism and Autochthony
Emmanuel Mfanafuthi Mgqwashu
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Full Professor (Higher Education Studies)
Institutional affiliation: Higher Education Leadership and Policy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Country: South Africa
Email: MgqwashuE@ukzn.ac.za
ORCID: 0000-0001-6547-5021
Research interests: Decoloniality; Higher Education Studies; Applied Language Studies; Curriculum Theory; Teacher Education
Erdoğan Altun
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Assistant Professor
Institutional affiliation: Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Avrasya University
Country: Türkiye
Email: erdogan.altun@avrasya.edu.tr
ORCID: 0000-0002-7314-4764
Research interests: Local Politics; Political Parties; Gender
Luvuyo Mthimkhulu Dondolo
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor
Institutional affiliation: Department of History, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA)
Country: South Africa
Email: dondolh@unisa.ac.za
ORCID: 0000-0003-0886-2134
Academic profiles: Google Scholar; ResearchGate; Academia: DondoloLuvuyo
Randy T. Nobleza
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor II
Institutional affiliation: College of Arts and Social Sciences, Marinduque State University
Country: Philippines
Email: randynobleza2014@gmail.com
ORCID: 0009-0002-0189-3384
Research interests: Philippine Studies; Island Education; Heritage; Creative Pedagogies
Ana Deumert
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Professor
Institutional affiliation: Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
Country: South Africa
Email: ana.deumert@uct.ac.za
ORCID: 0000-0002-0199-8955
Research interests: Decolonisation; Digital Media; Semiotics
Wolfram Elsner
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Prof. Dr.; Professor of Economics (retired); Guest Professor
Institutional affiliation: University of Bremen, Faculty of Business Studies and Economics (retired), Germany; Jilin University, School of Economics, Changchun, PR China
Country: Germany; PR China
Email: welsner@uni-bremen.de
ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-7879
Research interests: Evolutionary and Institutional Economics; History of Economic Thought; Complexity Economics; Industrial Economics; Regional Economics; Network Analysis; Microeconomics
Academic profile: Wolfram Elsner
Cintia Rodríguez Garat
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: PhD in Philosophy (National University of La Plata, Argentina, 2026); Researcher
Institutional affiliation: National University of Quilmes
Country: Argentina
Email: cintiarodriguezgarat@gmail.com
ORCID: 0000-0001-6914-9565
Research interests: Decolonial Epistemologies and Epistemic Justice; Intercultural Health and Indigenous Women’s Rights; Mapuche Knowledge Systems and Indigenous Epistemologies; Environmental and Climate Justice; Public Health Ethics and Territorial Justice
Kajal Shaw
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Doctoral Research Scholar
Institutional affiliation: Department of Mass Communication and Media Studies, Central University of Punjab
Country: India
ORCID: 0000-0001-9580-042X
Research interests: Mobile Phone; Women; Aboriginal; Digital Divide
Marcos Silva
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Associate Professor; PhD in Sociology; Postdoctoral Research in Afro-Latin American Studies
Institutional affiliation: Institute of Humanities, University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB)
Country: Brazil
Email: marcos.silva@unilab.edu.br
ORCID: 0000-0002-0765-6817
Research interests: Sociology of Policing and Prisons; Afro-Latin American Studies; Racism; Literature and Diaspora
Laura Mota Díaz
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Professor-Researcher; PhD in Human Rights Culture
Institutional affiliation: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEMéx), Toluca
Country: Mexico
ORCID: 0000-0003-2652-9394
Research interests: Public Policies; Socio-Territorial Conflicts; Criminalization of Indigenous Environmental Defenders; Environment
Martin Eve
Scientific Advisory Board Member
Academic title / position: Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing
Institutional affiliation: Department of English, Birkbeck, University of London
Country: United Kingdom
Email: martin.eve@bbk.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0002-5589-8511
Research interests: Scholarly Communications; Open Access; Contemporary Fiction; Digital Humanities
