Michael Barber (Yale, Philosophy, 1985) is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, at which he has taught for 39 years. He is the author of eight solo books and over one hundred articles in the area of phenomenology of the social world. He also writes on ethics, philosophy of religion, phenomenology, philosophy and race, finite provinces of meaning, such as humor, play, literature, music, and ritual, and he has published on the work of Husserl, Levinas, Scheler, and Schutz. His book The Participative Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz (SUNY, 2004) won the Ballard Prize in 2007. He is a member and has served as an officer in The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science, the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, and the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists. Orcid number: 0000-0001-6846-5996.