About the CST

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, founder and co-director of Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology, and co-editor of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Among his recent publications are The Drama of Social Life (2017), What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems (2019), and Populism in the Civil Sphere (2021, Kivisto and Sciortino co-editors). Continuing his earlier work on iconicity, Alexander has recently published "The Performativity of Objects" (Sociologisk Forskning 2020 v. 57: 3-4). Currently, he is engaged in conference/book projects on The Civil Sphere in Canada (with Mervyn Horgan) and The Civil Sphere in India (with Suryakant Wagmore).