Ariel Wilkis is Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), where he serves as Dean of the Escuela IDAES, and is a Senior Researcher at CONICET. His work sits at the intersection of economic sociology, political sociology, and the anthropology of money. He is the author of The Moral Power of Money (Stanford University Press, 2017) and co-author of The Dollar: How the U.S. Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina (University of New Mexico Press, 2023).