Joseph M. Bryant is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics (1996), and co-editor, with John Hall, of Historical Methods in the Social Sciences: Vols. I-IV (2005). With Zaheer Baber, he has also edited a festschrift in honour of Irving M. Zeitlin, entitled Society, History, and the Global Human Condition (2010). Bryant has published in several fields of inquiry, including the sociology of philosophy, military history, Christian origins, the philosophy of the social sciences, social theory and methodology, and comparative world history. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including the British Journal of Sociology, History of Political Thought, Archives européennes de sociologie, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and the Canadian Journal of Sociology.