Bruce G. Carruthers, Northwestern University

Bruce G. Carruthers is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a Long-term Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1991 and works in the areas of economic sociology, comparative-historical sociology, and the sociology of law, with research funding from the National Science Foundation, the American Bar Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and the Tobin Project. He has written numerous articles as well as six books, the most recent published in 2022 by Princeton University Press and entitled The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America. Carruthers has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, and was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. Recently, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.