Viktor Vakhshtayn (b. 23 January 1981) is a Russian born sociologist specializing in social theory, microsociology, and actor–network theory. In 2002 he graduated from the Faculty of Psychology of the V. G. Belinsky Penza State Pedagogical University (now Penza State University) and moved to Moscow, where he received a master’s degree in sociology at MSSES in 2003. In 2007, he graduated from graduate school of the Higher School of Economics and obtained a Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D) in sociology by defending a thesis on “Framing Theory as a Method for Sociological Analysis of Everyday Life”. He worked as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Head of the Department of Theoretical Sociology and Epistemology of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Head of the Centre for Sociological Studies of the RANEPA and the International Centre for Contemporary Sociological Theory MVSES. Editor in chief of the “Sociology of Power” journal (since 2011).