Joshua J. Yates is Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and an Associate Director of Institute of  Advanced Studies in Culture. His research focuses on issues of social  change, moral order, and cultural conflict. He is particularly  interested in the cultural dimensions of contemporary globalization  and his current research focuses on those movements of moral concern  and protest working for the implementation of the "good world."  Professor Yates has written on the cosmopolitanism of American global  elites, international humanitarianism and world culture, the  challenges of a globalizing modernity to religion, and the anti- globalization/global justice movement.