This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman. Goffman, who died in 1982, achieved fame with the publication of his 1959 book The Presentation ...

Thomas Schelling and Erving Goffman: who influenced whom, when and to what effect? Was there “influence” at all or, as Tom Burns suggests, independent discovery and convergence? These are the ...

This past semester, I was asked to give a lecture at Stanford University, a lecture based on my current research project, an ethnographic examination of global black Hebrewism, and it was advertised ...