Frederick “Fred” Wherry is currently the Vice-Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the Office of the Dean of Faculty and the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is currently writing a book What Debtors Deserve (which is under contract with Crown Publishing). He founded the Debt Collection Lab (debtcollectionlab.org) and the Dignity + Debt Network (dignityanddebt.org) where he works on issues of economic justice. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of nine books, including Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship (with Kristin Seefeldt and Anthony Alvarez), The Oxford Handbook of Consumption (with Ian Woodward), Money Talks (with Nina Bandelj and Viviana Zelizer), and Measuring Culture (with John Mohr, Chris Bail, and others). He has served in advisory roles at the Boston Federal Reserve, the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program, and the Mission Asset Fund, and was president of the Eastern Sociological Society and the Social Science History Association. In 2022 he was appointed to the Wealth Disparity Task Force by Governor Murphy. At Stanford University Press, he co-edits the book series Culture and Economic Life.