Kristin Plys is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and was J. Clawson Mills scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She has published two award-winning books, co-edited a special issue of Political Power and Social Theory, and published 20 articles in important peer-reviewed journals. Her books include Brewing Resistance (2020) and Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future (2022) with Charles Lemert, won honorable mention for the PEWS Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award from the American Sociological Association.