Gisèle Sapiro is a professor of sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Centre Européen de sociologie et de science politique). She is the editor of Sociology Is a Martial Art: Political Writings by Pierre Bourdieu (The New Press) and a former student of Bourdieu’s. She lives in Paris.