Joseph D Lewandowski is an educator, researcher and author whose work focuses on sport, social capital, and inequality in the urban milieu. The former holder of the Fulbright-Masaryk Distinguished Chair in Social Studies (Czech Republic), Lewandowski currently serves as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Missouri (USA). He is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and a working group fellow at the Legatum Institute. Among his many publications in social capital theory, Lewandowski is the author of ‘Sport, Trust, and Social Capital’ (Comparative Sociology), co-editor of Trust and Transitions: Social Capital in a Changing World and, more recently, Urban Social Capital: Civil Society and City Life. His work has been published in German, Czech, and Polish, and appears in journals such as Theory, Culture, and Society, Journal of Poverty, Journal of Social Philosophy, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Philosophy and Social Criticism, and elsewhere. Lewandowski’s current book in the philosophy and sociology of sport, On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science (Routledge, 2022), explores the cultural and philosophical dimensions of professional pugilism, and includes an extended discussion of boxing and social capital.