Natalia Ruiz-Junco is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow from Auburn University. 

Natalia Ruiz-Junco works in the areas of social theory, social psychology, sociology of emotions, social movements, and qualitative methodology. Her numerous publications in these areas examine the topics of self, identity, emotion, empathy, and social interaction. She has a long-standing interest in interpretive and pragmatist theories.

She is co-editor of Updating Charles H. Cooley: Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic (Routledge, 2019), the Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (Routledge, 2021) and People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life (Routledge, 2024).