Although he retired in 2007, William Sewell still teaches the occasional course and is a resident fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. He is a founding editor of Critical Historical Studies, published by the University of Chicago Press. He has long been interested in the intersection between history and social theory. His most recent book, Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (Chicago, 2005), won an award in 2008 from the American Sociological Association for the best recent book in sociological theory. Most of his historical work has focused on modern France. He is currently working on the social and cultural history of capitalism in eighteenth-century France but has made a few forays into the history of contemporary capitalism. In 2004 Sewell was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study (2009–14) and as president of the Social Science History Association (2011–12).