Nasar Meer is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow (2014-2019). He was previously Professor of Comparative Citizenship and Social Policy in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Strathclyde University, and a Reader at both Strathclyde and Northumbria University where he was also co-Director of the Centre for Civil Society and Citizenship (CCSC), in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences.  He is a holder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Thomas Reid Medal. During 2013 he was 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 has been named a Routledge 'Super Author' and has studied at the Universities of Essex, Edinburgh, and Bristol, and held visiting fellowships with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies, Harvard University, and the University of Aarhus. 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 University, and remains an honorary fellow. In 2014 he was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Young Academy (YAS) and the UK Social Policy Association Executive (SPA), and in 2016 he was elected as co-Chair of YAS and as a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA).


Memberships and Professional Roles

Co-editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press)
Co-editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS) #5PICS
Editorial Board Member of Ethnic and Racial Studies
Elected Editorial Board Member of Social Policy and Society
Editorial Board Member of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Elected Editorial Board Member of Sociology
Elected Editorial Board Member of Sociological Research Online
Editorial Board Member of Discover Society
Editorial Board Member of Public Spirit
International Advisory Board member of Ethnicities
Member and co-Chair of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland
Member of the Political Studies Association (PSA)
Elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Social Policy Association (PSA)
Elected Member of the Board 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 Runnymede Trust Academic Forum
Member of the Ethnic Minority Research Network in Criminology



Qualifications

PhD 'Citizenship & Double Consciousness', SPAIS, University of Bristol
MSc Social Research, University of Edinburgh
BA Hons Sociology (with Politics), University of Essex


Previous Positions

Professor, University of Strathclyde
Reader, University of Strathclyde
Reader, University of Northumbria
Senior Lecturer, University of Northumbria
Lecturer, University of Southampton
Research Fellow, University of Bristol
Research Assistant, University of Strathclyde