Contributors
- Contributors
Andrew Abbott is Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on a wide variety of empirical, methodological, and theoretical topics. His current focus is the theorizing and empirical study of the evolution of knowledge systems.
Craig Calhoun has served as president of the Social Science Research Council since 1999. He is University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and founding director of New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge.
Elisabeth S. Clemens is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. Her first book, The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890–1925 (1997), received the Max Weber Award for organizational sociology (1998) and the award for the best book in political sociology (1999) from sections of the American Sociological Association. She is also coeditor of Private Action and the Public Good (1998), Remaking Modernity (2005), and Politics and Partnerships: Voluntary Associations in America's Past and Present (2010).
Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His most recent book is Liberal Beginnings: A Republic for the Moderns, with Andreas Kalyvas (2008). He was president of the American Political Science Association for 2005–6.
Andreas Koller is a research fellow at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and a fellow at New York University's Institute for Public Knowledge. He works on projects in the SSRC's Public Sphere program area and coordinates the Tilly Fund for Social Science History. He is also editor of the SSRC's Public Sphere Guide and of the related online essay forum. His work focuses on the historical sociology of the public sphere, integrating political theory with social theory and historical analysis. [End Page 405]
Joan W. Scott is Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Her most recent book is The Politics of the Veil (2008).
Charles Tilly (1929–2008) was Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. He authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited more than 50 books and published more than 600 articles. Annotated links to online resources about Tilly and his prolific work are provided by the Tilly Fund for Social Science History at essays.ssrc.org/tilly/resources. [End Page 406]
