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Lauren Langman is a professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago from the Committee on Human Development and had further training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.  He has long worked in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, especially relationships between culture, politics/political movements and the psychosocial. He is past chairman of Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and current President of Alienation Research and Theory, Research Committee 36, of the International Sociological Association. He served a 5 year term on the editorial board of Sociological Theory, and remains on boards of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and Critical Sociology. Recent publications include  a special issue of American Behavioral Politics devoted to the presidency in a television age as well as articles and book chapters on alienation, social movements, the body, nationalism and national character. His most recent book is Trauma Promise and Millennium: The Evolution of Alienation, Rowman and Littlefield with Devorah Kalekin.  His forthcoming book, The Carnivalization of America, Sage Publications, Pine Forge Press, looks at the role of the alienation of youth and their embrace of transgressive life styles, identities and moments of popular culture.