Dr. Ari Adut

Biography

Ari Adut is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sociological Science. He has authored several books, including 'Scandal: Moral Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Art', published by Cambridge University Press in 2008, which received an Honorable Mention for the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize from the American Sociological Association. His second book, 'Reign of Appearances: Misery and Splendor in the Public Sphere', also published by Cambridge University Press, won the 2020 Theory Prize from the American Sociological Association. Adut is currently engaged in writing a book on political violence that proposes a new explanation of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. His research has been featured in prominent media outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, and BBC. He has received support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. Furthermore, he has been a past member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has held graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he also served as a visiting professor.

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