He received his PhD in sociology from Northwestern University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung. Recent articles include: “Styles of Causal Thought” (in American Journal of Sociology; with C. Petre and M. Sauder); “Thick Concepts and the Moral Brain” (in European Journal of Sociology); “The Meaning of 'Theory'” (in Sociological Theory); and “What the Science of Morality Doesn’t Say about Morality” (in Philosophy of the Social Sciences). His book, The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics, came out in April 2014 from Princeton University Press: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10263.html