Douglas Hartmann (Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1997) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His areas of specialization include: Race/Ethnicity, the Sociology of Culture (including Popular Culture and the Mass Media), Social Theory and Qualitative Research Methods. Hartmann is the co-author (with Stephen Cornell) of Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World (1998). Much of his research focuses on the intersections of race and sport in the United States. He is the author of Race, Culture, and the Revolt of the Black Athlete: The 1968 African American Olympic Protests and Their Aftermath (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled “Midnight Basketball: Race and the Realities of Sports-Based Crime Prevention in the Neo-Liberal Era.” Hartmann is also co -Principal Investigator of the “American Mosaic Project,” an ongoing, multi-method study of race, religion and diversity in the contemporary U.S. funded by the Minneapolis-based Edelstein Family Foundation.