William H. Sewell, Jr.

William H. Sewell, Jr. (born 1940 in Stillwater, Oklahoma) is an American academic. He is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Sewell is the son of William H. Sewell, a sociologist and the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1967 to 1968.

Sewell received his B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1962 and his Ph.D in history from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971. His dissertation was titled "The Structure of the Working Class of Marseille in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century," and his advisor was the historian Hans Rosenberg. He has made contributions in the areas of modern French labor, social, cultural and political history and social theory.

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