Gil Eyal is Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Director of the Trust Collaboratory at INCITE. At Columbia, he also serves on the Provost’s Advisory Committee on Academic Freedom. He is the author of five books: The Crisis of Expertise (Polity 2019), The Autism Matrix (Polity 2010), The Disenchantment of the Orient (Stanford 2006), The Origins of Postcommunist Elites (Minnesota 2003), and Making Capitalism without Capitalists (Verso 1998). He is also the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics. (Oxford 2023). He was born in Israel, came to the US in 1991, obtained his PhD in sociology from UCLA in 1997, and lives in Forest Hills, Queens, since 2005.
Gil Eyal
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Director of the Trust Collaboratory at INCITE
Papers / Presentations
Trans-science as a vocation (2019)
Mistrust in Numbers: Regulatory Science, Trans-science and the Crisis of Expertise (2022)
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Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
This roundtable explores how traditional intellectual movements and paradigms have fragmented in the postmodern era, challenging the idea of coherent disciplinary progress. It considers how the internet, social fragmentation, and AI are reshaping how knowledge is organized, produced, and understood.