Ron Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is the author of Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society (Cambridge University Press), and the co-author of Cultural Sociology (Blackwell), The Space of Opinion (Oxford University Press), and Living Sociologically (Oxford University Press), as well as the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Together with Jeff Alexander and Phil Smith, Ron is co-founder and co-editor of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
