Michael G. Flaherty is Professor of Sociology at Eckerd College and the University of South Florida his teaching and research interests include self and society, deviance, qualitative methods, time and temporal experience, social interaction, and the social construction of reality. He is the author of "The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience" and more recently "The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison" which takes the perspective of people incarcerated and how they experience the passage of time.