I am Professor of Sociology and Interim Chair of the  Sociology Department (2024-2025) at the University of Chicago where I am also a Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, The Committee on International Relations, and Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture. I am also a Fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.

My research and writing has won prizes from the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association, among other institutions. I won the Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology given by the American Sociological Association in 2018.

My professional editorial roles include editing Political Power and Social Theory, serving as former Book Review Editor of the American Journal of Sociology and on the editorial boards of several journals including, past or present, the American Journal of Sociology, the British Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Social Science History and the Sociology of Race & Ethnicity. I also serve on the editorial boards of several university press series.

I have served as President of the Social Science History Association. I am currently a member of The Immanuel Wallerstein Chair of the Center for Advanced Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and the Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt am Main (IfS-UNC).  I have also served as Chair of the Global & Transnational Sociology and Comparative Historical Sociology Sections of the American Sociological Association.

I did postdoctoral work as an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. I have also taught at Boston University, the University of Illinois, and have been a visiting Professor/Scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge University, the London School of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Université Paris-Dauphine, the University of Lucerne in Switzerland, the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin, and the Third World Studies Center, University of Philippines.