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Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas-March 20, 1962, Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. Among other topics he was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated relevance and engagement over disinterested academic observation.

Mills graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1941. In 1946 he took a faculty position at Columbia, which he kept, despite controversy, until his untimely death.