Michael G. Flaherty

Michael G. Flaherty is Professor of Sociology at Eckerd College and the University of South Florida. Professor Flaherty is a coauthor (with K. C. Carceral) of The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Columbia University Press, 2021) and author of The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience (Temple University Press, 2011) and A Watched Pot: How We Experience Time (NYU Press, 1999). He is a coeditor (with Anne Line Dalsgård and Lotte Meinert) of Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (Berghahn Books, 2020). His current research concerns temporal issues associated with climate change and climate change denial.

Flaherty earned his PhD in sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with Norman K. Denzin and Norbert Wiley. In 2016-2017, he was the recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship, which funded a year-long sabbatical at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Study, Aarhus University, Denmark. Currently, he serves on the Council of the Doctoral School of Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania.