Sarah Quinn is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies and Urban@UW. Quinn uses historical research and case studies to investigate the complex interplay of political institutions, market practices, and systems of moralization. She is the author of American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped the Nation (Princeton, 2019), which explains how political institutions shaped in the nation’s lending practices. Quinn's ongoing work looks at the development of federal credit programs, the complex style of American political institutions, and the moral classification of human lives and bodies. Quinn has held fellowships at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the Institute for Advanced Study. She has a BA in Sociology from Smith College, and a MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.