Michael O. Emerson (PhD University of North Carolina) is Department Head and Professor of Sociology at University of Illinois Chicago. He is co-author of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2000), People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States (Princeton University Press, 2006), and Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future (New York University Press, 2018).