Ron Eyerman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, and currently a Researcher at the University of Lund, Sweden, received his B.A. from the New School for Social Research, a Masters in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Oregon, and his Doctorate at the University of Lund, Sweden. Ron served as co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale from 2003 to 2019. His most recent publications will arrive in 2019 in the Palgrave Cultural Sociology Series - Memory, Trauma and Identity, and The Trauma of Decolonization co-edited with Giuseppe Sciortino. He is the author of Music and Social Movements (Cambridge, 1998), Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African-American Identity (Cambridge, 2002), Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (with Alexander, Giesen, Smelser, and Sztompka, University of California Press, 2004) and the editor of Myth, Meaning and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts (with Lisa McCormick, Paradigm Publishers, 2006). Eyerman’s interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies and the sociology of the arts.
