Meer Nasar - Sociology For Dummies

Sociology For Dummies

by Nasar Meer, PhD, and Jay Gabler, PhD

Sociology For Dummies

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About the Authors

Dr Nasar Meer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Northumbria. He has previously studied at the Universities of Essex, Edinburgh and Bristol, and during his doctoral studies held a visiting fellowship with the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University, and presently holds a visiting fellowship with the University of Aarhus. Nasar was previously a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, and has undertaken research at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship (CSEC), Bristol Institute for Public Affairs (BIPA).

Nasars research explores the relationships between minority identities and citizenship programmes. He is particularly interested in arenas of education, anti-discrimination, political participation, and public and media representation. Other interests include a European reading of the African-American founding figure of Sociology, W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as a focus upon the role of journalists as public intellectuals. He is also researching the sociology and politics of conceptualising racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, alongside an emerging interest in Scottish nationhood.

He is the author of Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism (2010) (Palgrave), and he is presently editing a special issue of Ethnic & Racial Studies comparing anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment, and co-editing (with A. Triandafyllidou and T. Modood) European Multiculturalism(s) Ethnic, Cultural & Religious Challenges (Edinburgh University Press), and (with W. Martineau and S. Thompson) a special issue of Ethnicities on Misrecognition. He is also co-editor (with V. Uberoi and T. Modood) of a new Palgrave book series on Citizenship and the Politics of Identity. His book Race & Ethnicity is forthcoming with Sage.

When not working at the University of Northumbria Nasar lives with his partner in Edinburgh.

Jay Gabler is a writer, editor and college teacher living in Minneapolis. He holds a bachelors degree from Boston University and graduate degrees, including a PhD in sociology, from Harvard University. With colleagues, he has published multiple sociological research studies including the book Reconstructing the University (with David John Frank, Stanford University Press, 2006). He currently teaches sociology, psychology and education at Rasmussen College. He is also associate editor of the Twin Cities Daily Planet, where he writes regularly on the arts, and author of the most recent edition of the Insiders Guide to the Twin Cities (Globe Pequot Press, 2010).

Dedication

From Nasar: The UK edition of Sociology For Dummies is dedicated to Rafi Rehan, Moin Khizer and Sophia Lulu.

From Jay: To David John Frank and Jason Kaufman, my mentors in sociology.

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