Peter Bearman is the Cole Professor of the Social Sciences, the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theories and Empirics (INCITE), and a co-director of the Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University. He is a co-editor, with Mary Marshall Clark, Catherine Ellis, and Stephen Drury Smith, of After the Fall: New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed (The New Press). He lives in New York City.