Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime; Nostalgia Now; Postmortal Society; and Critical and Cultural Interactionism; and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; Encountering the Everyday; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; Liquid Criminology; Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences; Towards a Criminology of Emotions; and Exploring Grief: Towards and Sociology of Sorrow. Greg Smith is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford, UK. He is the author of Erving Goffman and the co-author of Sociologies of Interaction.
'Jacobsen and Smith’s International Handbook of Goffman Studies undoubtedly constitutes a new milestone in the recognition of Goffman’s work. Anyone who studies this work in depth needs to know and work with this book. Its thorough reading promises a wealth of impulses for the further exploration of Goffman’s work, which will hopefully continue to be an arena where different theoretical positions and controversial views of his publications can meet.' - Karl Lenz, Symbolic Interaction