Viktor Vakhshtayn (b. 23 January 1981) is a Russian-born sociologist specializing in social theory, microsociology, and actor–network theory. Victor 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).