Patricia Ewick is Professor of Sociology at Clark University. Her research is in the area of law, consciousness and social movements. Her books include The Common Place of Law (with Susan Silbey), Law, Policy and Social Science (edited with Robert Kagan and Austin Sarat), and Consciousness and Ideology. Ewick has also published articles in the Law & Society Review, Law and Society Inquiry, and the American Journal of Sociology.  The Common Place of Law won special recognition Best Book Prize from the American Sociological Association. Her article  “Narrating Social Structure: Stories of Resistance to Legal Authority,” (with Susan Silbey) won the best article prize from the American Sociological Association Culture Section (2003), the Political Sociology Section (2004), the Law Section (2004) , and honorable mention from the Law and Society Association Best Article Prize. She has served as the co-editor of Law, Politics and Society and Associate Editor of Law & Society Review.  She has served on the Law and Society Association Board of Trustees, and as chair of the Jacob Prize Committee, the Summer Institute Committee, and the Graduate Student Workshop Committee. Her current research examines organized responses to the Catholic Church sexual abuse crisis among faithful Catholics.