Eric Gordy is an associate professor of sociology at Clark University, where he teaches courses in sociological theory, political sociology, the sociology of culture, and human rights. He specializes in the politics and culture of the contemporary Balkans and is the author of The Culture of Power in Serbia (1999), in addition to articles on contemporary Balkan politics and culture, international law, and problems of "democracy assistance." Gordy is currently working on a comparative history of the development and mythologization of organized crime in the US and Balkans, and he is preparing a collection on war crimes and public memory. He has been a fellow of the Collegium BudapestŠInstitute for Advanced Study (Hungary), the Jefferson Institute (Serbia), and the Istituto per l'Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica (Italy). This year he is a nonresident international research fellow at the University of Nis (Serbia) under the auspices of the Open Society Institute Higher Education Support Program, developing the university's program in sociology of culture. Eric Gordy's profile can be accessed here.