Mustafa Emirbayer (Ph.D. 1989, Harvard University) is Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  His interdisciplinary work spans pragmatist philosophy and social theory; studies of civil society and the public sphere; cultural analysis; relational sociology; and psychoanalytic theory.  He has published numerous influential essays on classical and contemporary sociological theory and recently completed a two-volume project on race in America (coauthored with Matthew Desmond).  Race in America (W.W. Norton) is an undergraduate textbook; The Racial Order (University of Chicago Press) is for a scholarly readership and was awarded the Theory Prize by the American Sociological Association, Theory Section.  Mustafa Emirbayer is a past winner of the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda-Setting in Sociology; a former chair of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association; and currently the editor of Sociological Theory.