Jason Beckfield is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Sociology, Harvard University. In addition to health inequalities, Dr. Beckfield studies globalization, political sociology, and social stratification. He received a BA from Truman State University in 1998, followed by a PhD from Indiana University in 2005. His recent publications include “More Europe, Not Less: What Can Happen When European Welfare States Meet the Eurozone Crisis” in SocioLogica: Italian Journal of Sociology, “Organized Labor in an Evolving Europe” in Research in the Sociology of Work, and “The Social Structure of the World Polity” in the American Journal of Sociology. Currently, Beckfield is working on two major projects: the first, a book on what regional integration means for inequality in Europe, and the second, a series of articles on the comparative sociology of health inequalities.