Harry F. Dahms is a professor of sociology working in social theory, critical theory, philosophy of social science, and sociology of science fiction at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, where he is also co-chair of the Committee on Social Theory and co-director of the Center for the Study of Social Justice. He has been an affiliate in Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria since 2010, and previously taught at Florida State University and the University of Göttingen, Germany. He is the editor of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and director of the International Social Theory Consortium, and currently in the process of completing a book, Modern Society as Artifice: Critical Theory and the Logic of Capital (Routledge).