Gil Eyal

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.