Sande Cohen specializes in historiography, philosophy and cultural criticism. He received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. from UCLA. He has published many articles in historical theory and cultural theory, and is the author of Historical Culture: On the Recoding of an Academic Discipline (UC Press, 1986); Academia and the Luster of Capital (Minnesota, 1993); Passive Nihilism (St. Martins, 1998); co-editor of French Theory in America with Sylvere Lotringer (Routledge, 2001); co-editor of Consumption in an Age of Information with R.L. Rutsky (Berg, 2005, http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/book); and author of History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8599.html). He has completed a book entitled ‘The Work of Art and Culture in an Age of Stupdity: Art, Culture and School in Los Angeles,’ which will be published in 2008.