Catherine Corrigall-Brown is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Her research focuses on social movements and protest, particularly examining what keeps individuals involved in activism over time, framing, and identity. She is the author of 4 books, including her first book Patterns of Protest, published with Stanford University Press. She has also published more than 42 articles, book chapters, and review essays. These works have appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Mobilization, the American Behavioral Scientist, the International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Sociological Perspectives, Social Movement Studies and the Canadian Review of Sociology. This research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation (US) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada). She has served as the Chair of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict section of the American Sociological Association and on the council of the Collective Action and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association. She is currently a deputy editor of Mobilization, the premiere social movements journal, and on the editorial board of Sociological Compass. She was awarded the Killam Faculty Teaching Prize in 2017 and received the Early Investigator Award for best early career scholar from the Canadian Sociological Association in 2013.

"I remember signing up for my first sociology class. I needed one more course to complete my schedule in my first year of university and my mother suggested that I take sociology. Even though I had never heard of sociology and did not know what it would entail, I took the class. I was forever changed. That course fundamentally altered the way I think about the world around me. Sociology provided me with a lens through which to study and understand our complex society. I learned that, although we all have a lifetime of experiences within society, the importance of that society is often hard to understand because we are so immersed in it. Sociology helped me see how society shaped my life and the world around me. By teaching sociology for many years, I have had the pleasure of helping students discover their sociological imagination, the key lens we use to understand the connection between individuals and society. It is a delight to see them start to use the theories, ideas, and research in our discipline to help make sense of the world around them. We can use these ideas to answer pressing questions such as, "Why is there poverty?" "Why do men and women earn different amounts of money?" "How do race and ethnicity shape our lives?" and "How does social change happen?" This book aims to bring sociology to life"--