Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Yale University, founder and codirector of Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology, and coeditor of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Among his numerous publications are The Civil Sphere, Civil Repair, and What Makes a Social Crisis? Mervyn Horgan is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph. He has published widely on urban studies, social interaction, housing, stigmatization, cultural sociology, and social theory in journals including Social Inclusion, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Pragmatics, and the Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, as well as well as in numerous edited collections.
Contributors: Bruna Brito, Brieg Capitaine, Jean-François Côté, Laura Eramian, Zachary Hyde, Lily Ivanova, Mandy Na'zinek Jimmie, Thomas Kemple, Daniel Kudla, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Saara Liinamaa, Peter Mallory, Matt Patterson, Dean Ray, Elisabeth Rondinelli, Allyson Stokes, Galen Watts, Chris Worden