Andrei Markovits is currently an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author and editor of many books, scholarly articles, conference papers, book reviews and newspaper contributions in English and many foreign languages on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left. Markovits has also worked extensively on comparative sports culture in Europe and North America. His latest book on that subject is entitled "Sport: Motor und Impulssystem für Emanzipation und Diskriminierung." Written in German, this book delineates Andrei's long-held arguments on sports in North America and Europe, particularly in terms of their representing forces for emancipation, meritocracy and progress on the one hand; but also for discrimination, prejudice and exclusion on the other.