Max Besbris is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the sociology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality (Chicago, 2020) and the coauthor of Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster (Russell Sage, 2022). His research focuses on housing, climate change, and racial-spatial inequality.