Editors

About the Editor

Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. From 1995–2010, he edited (with Steven Seidman) the Cambridge Series on Cultural Social Studies and from 2004–2009 (with Julia Adams, Ron Eyerman, and Philip Gorsky) Sociological Theory. Among his recent books are The Civil Sphere and The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power.

Ron Eyerman is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. His areas of research include social theory, trauma, and memory, and he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics. He is the author of The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma.

David Inglis is Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He is founding editor of the journal Cultural Sociology, published by Sage. His recent books include The Globalization of Food and Cosmopolitanism.

Philip Smith is Professor and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His recent books include Why War?, Punishment and Culture, and Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life (coauthored) among others.

Interpreting Clifford Geertz

Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith, and Matthew Norton

The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination

Ron Eyerman

Constructing Irish National Identity

Anne Kane

Iconic Power

Edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Dominik Bartmański, and Bernhard Giesen

Seeking Authenticity in Place, Culture, and the Self

Nicholas Osbaldiston

Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry

Richard Biernacki

Central Bank Independence

Carlo Tognato

Liberal Barbarism

Erik Ringmar

Social Tragedy

Stephanie Alice Baker

Meanings of Life in Contemporary Ireland

Tom Inglis

Performing Punk

Erik Hannerz

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements

Thomas Olesen