Musa al-Gharbi

al-Gharbi’s work explores how we talk about, think about, and produce a shared understanding of social phenomena including inequality, social movements, identity, extremism, policing, national security, foreign policy and domestic U.S. political contests. al-Gharbi makes use of myriad theoretical and empirical tools, and work with colleagues across a range of disciplines, to gain leverage on questions of interest. al-Gharbi’s first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, examines the history and political economy of the symbolic professions from the interwar period through the present. It was published by Princeton University Press in October 2024.