Giselinde Kuipers
Giselinde Kuipers is a Research Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University Leuven. She is the author of numerous articles and books on humor, media, globalization, beauty and morality, including Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke (Berlin 2006/2015). Her work was also the topic of a webcomic, funded by the European Research Council. From 2012 to 2016, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the ISI-ranked journal HUMOR International Journal of Humor Research.