Caroline W. Lee

Caroline W. Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College. Her research explores the intersection of social movements, business, and democracy in American politics.

Her book Do-it-Yourself Democracy is based on an ethnography of the public engagement industry. Democratizing Inequalities, an edited volume with collaborators Ed Walker and Mike McQuarrie, is about the challenges of “the new public participation” – the dramatic expansion of democratic practices in organizations of all types – in an era of stark economic inequalities.