Since its founding in 1992, the Social Thought program has served as a network of interdisciplinary research and communication for scholars from various disciplines, all with shared interests in broadly defined social, cultural, and political theories. Recognizing the world’s growing connectivity and complexity, informed scholars and citizens now realize that expertise in a single discipline will no longer suffice when interpreting pressing issues facing the global polity. With multifaceted cultural products and political events evolving ever more rapidly, enveloping social institutions within and among nations more swiftly than in the past, new ways of understanding these phenomena must be created. It is in the hope of helping to nurture scholars who can deal in these matters that the Social Thought Program owes its existence.