Dr Nasar Meer is a Reader and co-Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Citizenship, in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University.  During 2012-13 he is a Minda de Gunzberg Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, and a member of the British Council's Outreach Program. He is currently a Routledge 'Super Author' and has previously studied at the Universities of Essex, Edinburgh, and Bristol, and held a visiting fellowship with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University. He presently holds a visiting fellowship with the University of Arhus. Nasar was previously a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship (CSEC), Bristol Institute for Public Affairs.


Memberships and Professional Roles

Co-editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS).
Editorial Board Member of Social Policy and Society
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Science and Technology
Editorial Board Member of Sociology
Editorial Board Member of Sociological Research Online
Member of the Political Studies Association (PSA)
Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)
Member of the PSA Specialist Group on Young People's Politics
Member of the American Sociological Association (ASA)
Member of the Runneymede Trust Academic Forum
Member of the Ethnic Minority Research Nework in Criminology


Qualifications

PhD 'Citizenship & Double Consciousness', SPAIS, University of Bristol (2003-2007)
MSc Social Research, University of Edinburgh (2001-2)
BA Hons Sociology (with Politics), University of Essex (1998-2001)


Previous Positions

Senior Lecturer, University of Northumbria (2011-2012)
Lecturer, University of Southampton (2009-2011)
Research Fellow, University of Bristol (2006-2009)
Research Assistant, University of Strathclyde (2002-3)