David L. Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology and teaches in the Social Sciences Division of the Core Curriculum and in the Department of Sociology at BU. He is the author of Culture & Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu (University of Chicago Press 1997) and co-editor (with Vera L. Zolberg) of After Bourdieu: Influence, Critique, Elaboration (Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004). He is a Senior Editor and Book Review Editor for Theory and Society. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and a maitrise from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. His research interests include the study of elites and stratification, education, culture, religion, and social theory.