Ron Eyerman is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Lund University. He received his doctorate at Lund University in 1985 and has been a university professor in Växjö, Uppsala and Copenhagen. He is currently a professor at Yale University, where he is also the Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the author of several recent books, including Music and Social Movements and Cultural Trauma from Cambridge University Press and Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity from the University of California Press. His interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies and the sociology of the arts.