Jeffrey C. Alexander

Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

Among his recent books are The Drama of Social Life (2017); Obama Power (with B. Jaworsky, 2014), The Dark Side of Modernity (2013), and Trauma: A Social Theory (2012). Among his recent articles are "Struggling over the Mode of Incorporation: Backlash against Multiculturalism in Europe" Ethnic and Racial Studies (2013), and "The Fate of the Dramatic in Modern Society: Social Theory and the Theatrical Avant-Guard" Theory, Culture, and Society (2013).

He is the co-editor of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.