Dennis Gilbert's primary research interests are Latin American society and history and the American class system. Gilbert is the author of The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (Sage, 2015), and Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era (University of Arizona Press, 2007) and Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution (Blackwell, 1990), among other works. He earned a doctorate in sociology from Cornell University.