Magali Sarfatti Larson is professor emeritus of sociology at Temple University and at the University of Urbino, Italy. She has been a member of the editorial board of Politics and Society since 1975 and is on the advisory board of Cultural Sociology, Theory and Society, Sociological Forum, and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Her books include Behind the Postmodern Facade, Spanish Bureaucratic Patrimonialism in America, and Social Stratification in Peru.