Avery Gordon is the author of Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, Mapping Multiculturalism and other works. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and co-host of No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program. She is currently writing about captivity, war, and utopia. She divides her time between Paris and Santa Barbara.