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ruth levitas is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Bristol, U.K. She was the founding chair of the Utopian Studies Society Europe from 1988 to 2006 and chair/vice chair of the William Morris Society from 2004 to 2014. She has been awarded the Sociological Review Prize for Outstanding Scholarship (2011) and the Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Utopian Studies (2012). Her main research is in the areas of utopianism, poverty, social inequality, and social and political thought, especially that of William Morris. Her major publications include The Ideology of the New Right (Polity Press, 1986); The Concept of Utopia (Philip Allen, 1990/Peter Lang, 2010); The Inclusive Society: Social Exclusion and New Labour (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998/2005); and Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).