Charles Michael Camic (born September 27, 1951)^[2] is theLorraine H. Morton Professor of sociology atNorthwestern University. His research focuses onsociological theory, thesociology of science, andhistorical sociology.^[3]

Camic received his B.A. insociologysumma cum laude from theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1973. He went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D., also in sociology, from theUniversity of Chicago in 1975 and 1979, respectively. In 1979, he became an assistant professor of sociology at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1984 and to full professor in 1988. In 1999, he became the Martindale-Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2006, he left the University of Wisconsin-Madison to become theJohn Evans Professor of sociology at Northwestern, where he was appointed the Lorraine H. Morton Professor in 2016.^[4][5]

From 1999 to 2003, Camic was the co-editor-in-chief of theAmerican Sociological Review, along withFranklin D. Wilson.^[4][6] As of February 2017, he is a senior editor forTheory and Society.^[4]

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