William H. Sewell Jr. is Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History. Although he retired in 2007, William Sewell still teaches the occasional course. He is a founding editor of Critical Historical Studies, published by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book is Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth Century France (University of Chicago Press, 2021). He has long been interested in the intersection between history and social theory, a subject he treated in Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (University of Chicago Press, 2005). In 2020, he received the inaugural Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award from the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. He is currently working on various problems in the history of capitalism. Sewell is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a trustee of the institute for Advanced Study (2009-14) and as president of the Social Science History Association (2011-12). Sewell is also a serious amateur photographer. He provides cover art for Critical Historical Studies and has participated in several individual and group exhibitions.