Charles Gattone received his Ph.D. from The New School for Social Research in 2000. He taught as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at Oberlin College, and joined the faculty at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2001. His book, The Social Scientist as Public Intellectual: Critical Reflections in a Changing World (Roman & Littlefield, 2006) addresses a host of questions on the place of social science in public affairs, and examines some of the underlying challenges social scientists have had to confront in today's highly competitive and bureaucratically organized academic environment. Dr. Gattone's research focuses on the ideas of a number of key thinkers in the social sciences, including Max Weber, Karl Mannheim, C. Wright Mills, and Pierre Bourdieu. He has also done work in media studies, the sociology of knowledge, and the sociology of culture. In the Department of Sociology at UF, he is currently teaching the graduate seminar Contemporary Sociological Theory and the courses Development of Sociological Thought and Media and Society. His earlier publications include "Image and Persuasion: The Machiavellian World of Advertising and Public Relations" (Spring 2002), "The Role of the Intellectual in Public Affairs" (Winter, 2000), and "Media and Politics in the Information Age" (Fall 1996).