He is the author of The Opera Fanatic. Ethnography of an Obsession (University of Chicago Press 2011), as well as the guest editor of a special issue on “Knowledge in Practice” for Qualitative Sociology. He is a qualitative sociologist, primarily working in the areas of culture, the arts, Latin America and methods. Publications include articles in Theory and Society, Ethnography, the Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Sciences, and Theory, Culture and Society.