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Nasar Meer is Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, a Royal Society of Edinburgh Research Fellow, and Principal Investigator of the H2020 funded Governance and Local Integration of Migrants and Europe's Refugees (GLIMER). 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). In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).
Current Memberships and Professional Roles Editor in Chief of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Co-editor of 21st Century Standpoints (BSA and Policy Press) Co-editor of Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (PPICS) Editorial Board Member of Ethnic and Racial Studies Editorial Board Member of Discover Society Editorial Board Member of Public Spirit International Advisory Board member of Ethnicities Member and former co-Chair of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland Elected Member of the Board of the British Sociological Association (BSA) 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 |
