BARIS CAYLI MESSINA, PhD
EDITORIAL ROLES
I hold significant editorial leadership positions at major international scholarly outlets, reflecting my commitment to advancing interdisciplinary research and shaping critical conversations in sociology, politics, history, criminology, and the social sciences.
I am the founding editor of Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society (Temple University Press) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Social Science Journal (Wiley). I am Editor of Sociology Compass responsible for original article submissions. I also serve on the editorial boards of The Sociological Review, Sociology, Cultural Sociology and I.S. Med. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean
Book Series Editor of
Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society
I founded and serve as editor of Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society to address a critical gap in our understanding of how empires, states, organizations, sects, and groups have used criminalisation both in legal and extra-legal forms to consolidate power across time and space.
The book series promotes both theoretical and methodological advances in understanding criminalisation and its patterns at local, national, and global levels throughout modern and contemporary history. Guided by the conviction that issues surrounding criminalisation reflect not only the form of society and polity but also reveal how hierarchical power relationships and entrenched social practices have evolved over time, the series examines how injustice has occurred and how social and political forces have shaped the destinies of individuals and communities across diverse geographies and historical periods. Clarifying these complex processes is essential for illuminating the most pressing challenges we face today.
Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society provides a platform for emerging and established scholars to address these critical issues, pioneer interdisciplinary approaches, and advance rigorous scholarly debate.
For submissions and more information, please visit the Temple Studies in Criminalization, History, and Society website.
Editor-in-Chief of International Social Science Journal
I serve as Editor-in-Chief of the International Social Science Journal, working with a team of associate editors and an international editorial board to bring cutting-edge scholarship across social science disciplines to the forefront of scholarly discussion.
Publishing for more than 75 years, the International Social Science Journal bridges social science communities across disciplines and continents, sharing information and debate with the widest possible audience. Founded by UNESCO in 1949, the ISSJ has evolved into a forum for innovative review, reflection, and discussion informed by recent and ongoing international social science research. The journal provides a home for work that asks questions in new ways, employs original methods to address classic problems, and generates insights with implications across disciplines and beyond the academy.
The ISSJ has a particular focus on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary work that pushes the boundaries of current approaches, welcoming both applied and theoretical research. As a free-format journal, we allow authors to format manuscripts and references in their preferred style, provided consistency is maintained throughout.
For more information about the journal and submission guidelines, please visit the ISSJ website.
Associate Editor for Original Articles Submission
Sociology Compass
Sociology Compass is a leading international journal publishing peer-reviewed original research articles and surveys of current research from across the entire discipline, with the aim of providing topical and significant research on a monthly basis.
Sociology Compass has been regularly listed among the top 20 most cited sociology journals according Google Scholar.
Editorial Board Member
The Sociological Review
The Sociological Review is one of the world’s foremost journals for sociological inquiry in all traditions, with over 100 years of publishing high quality and innovative articles. It offers a space to question taken for granted understandings of the social world, and provides a platform for thinking about alternative possibilities for what it might be.
The Sociological Review has been publishing high quality and innovative articles for over 100 years. During this time we have steadfastly remained a general sociological journal, selecting papers of immediate and lasting significance. Covering all branches of the discipline, including criminology, education, gender, medicine, and organization, our tradition extends to research that is anthropological or philosophical in orientation and analytical or ethnographic in approach.
Editorial Board Member of
Sociology
Sociology is the flagship journal of the British Sociological Association (BSA), acknowledged as one of the leading journals in its field. For more than six decades, the journal has made a major contribution to the debates that have shaped the discipline and has earned an undisputed international reputation for publishing original research of the highest academic standard.
Editorial Board Member of
Cultural Sociology
Cultural Sociology is an official journal of the British Sociological Association. It is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles concerning the sociological analysis of culture.
Cultural Sociology is the first journal explicitly to be dedicated to the sociological comprehension of cultural matters. Now firmly established, it acts as a key meeting point for sociological analysts of culture coming from a wide range of theoretical and methodological positions, and from a great variety of national contexts. It is a locale where different analytical traditions in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture can engage with and learn from each other.
Editorial Board Member of
I.S.MED
Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean
I.S. Med. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean addresses a significant gap in research by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue about the Mediterranean in modern and contemporary eras. The Mediterranean is understood as a geo-cultural space spanning national borders and expressed through humanities, social studies, art, media, popular culture, socio-linguistics, and creative writing.