Joshua J. Yates

Director of Program on Global Culture and Social Change

Research Assistant Professor of Sociology

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Joshua J. Yates is Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Program on Global Culture and Social Change at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture.

Professor Yates has written on the cosmopolitanism of American global elites, the cultural imperatives of international humanitarianism and human rights organizations, the challenges of a globalizing modernity to religion, the worldwide spread of democracy, and the anti-globalization/global justice movement. His work focuses on issues of social change, moral order, and cultural conflict. He is currently working on a book encapsulating his previous research tentatively entitled: “The Problem of the Good World.”