Anne Warfield Rawls

Anne Warfield Rawls is an American sociologist, social theorist and ethnomethodologist. She is professor of sociology at Bentley University, Professor for Interaction, Work and Information at the University of Siegen, Germany and director of the Harold Garfinkel Archive, Newburyport, MA. Rawls has been teaching courses on social theory, social interaction, ethnomethodology and systemic racism for over forty years. She has also written extensively on Émile Durkheim and Harold Garfinkel, explaining their argument that equality is needed to ground practices in democratic publics, and showing how inequality interferes with the cooperation and reflexivity necessary to successfully engage in complex practices.