Chandler Rosenberger is a historical sociologist who is professor of sociology and international and global studies at Brandeis University, where he specializes in the cultural foundations of politics, especially the intellectual roots of political revolutions. He studied history and philosophy as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and the philosophy of religion for a master’s degree at Oxford University. His institute fellowship took him to Central Europe, where he lived as a journalist for seven years. He returned to the United States to earn a PhD from Boston University, writing his dissertation about the dissident intellectuals who led Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, and staying on to teach there for nine years. Chad has written about post-Communist Central Europe for scholarly journals and Critical Review, Human Rights Watch, World Policy Journal and The Wall Street Journal. He is writing a biography of the late Czech President Václav Havel.