Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Rutgers University. He is a widely recognized authority on cognitive sociology, the sociology of time, and the sociology of memory. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction's George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Symbolic Interaction. He also served as Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. He is the author of thirteen books, and his work has been featured by numerous public media, including interviews on the BBC, The New York Times, Newsday, and NPR.