Carlo Tognato has been Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale since 2005. More recently, he was Research Fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota and Senior Policy Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Before returning to the US in 2019, he was for over a decade associate professor of sociology at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, where he also directed for four years the Center for Social Studies. He attended Jeff Alexander’s graduate seminar in cultural sociology back in 2000 as he was completing the second year in his PhD program in Political Science at UCLA. That encounter with Jeff completely changed Carlo’s intellectual trajectory and Jeff ended up co-chairing his PhD dissertation committee at UCLA. Since then, Carlo has been a contributor to the Strong Program in cultural sociology and to the Cultural Sociology Series at Palgrave-Macmillan. During the last decade Carlo’s work has focused on civil sphere theory.
