Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, Volume 2

About

Steve Hitlin is Professor of Sociology & Criminology at the University of Iowa. He is the co-author of Unequal Foundations (2018 Oxford) co-author of the forthcoming The Science of Dignity (Oxford) and a co-editor of the Handbook of the Sociology of Morality Vol. 1 (2010). His work has appeared in a variety of journals across social science including the American Journal of Sociology Annual Review of Sociology Social Psychology Quarterly Child Development Social Forces and Social Science Review. He publishes on morality values agency identity dignity and other hard-to-define concepts.Shai M. Dromi is Associate Senior Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University. He is the author of Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector (Univ. of Chicago Press 2020) and Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science (Univ. of Chicago Press 2023 co-authored with Samuel D. Stabler). Hiswork has appeared in journals such as Theory & Society Sociological Theory Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly and Rural Sociology. He publishes on religion humanitarian aid morality organizations and social knowledge production.Aliza Luft is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California Los Angeles. She is currently completing a book Sacred Treason: Race Religion and The Holocaust in France under contract with Harvard University Press. Other work has appeared in journals such as Sociological Theory Sociology Compass European Journal of Sociology Qualitative Sociology and Political Power and Social Theory. She also regularly contributes to public sociology in venues such as The Washington Post; New Yorker; LA Times; NY Times; and elsewhere. Her research examines the fluctuating relationships between social identity ideology and interpersonal socio-political action in contexts marked by war and violence.