Steven Vertovec

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Steven Vertovec
Diaspora Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Websitehttp://www.mmg.mpg.de/departments/socio-cultural-diversity/scientific-staff/prof-dr-steven-vertovec/

Steven Vertovec (born 2 July 1957) is an anthropologist and Director of the

Georg August University of Göttingen and Supernumerary Fellow at Linacre College
, Oxford.

Career

Born in Chicago, Vertovec completed a double major (anthropology and religious studies) B.A. Magna cum laude at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1979. Thereafter, he gained an M.A. in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1982. In 1988 he was awarded a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford, where he was a student at Nuffield College.

Vertovec’s doctoral work concerned religion, ethnicity and socio-economic development in Trinidad, West Indies.

super-diversity
. He has mainly conducted research in Britain and Germany.

He has been awarded a scholarship from Nuffield College, Oxford and fellowships from the University of California, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,[3] British Economic and Social Research Council and the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin.[4] Recent grants include an Advanced Investigator Award from the European Research Council[5]

Vertovec has held numerous positions, including: Postdoctoral Fellow (under an award from the Leverhulme Trust) in the School of Geography at the University of Oxford; Principal Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick; Professor of Transnational Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford; and Senior Research Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford.

He has managed several large-scale research initiatives, including: Director of ‘Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in European Cities’ within UNESCO’s MOST programme; Director of the ESRC national research programme on ‘Transnational Communities’; and Founding Director of the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).

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After coining the term

super-diversity[8] different major news outlets have reported on Vertovec's research [9][10] and Vertovec himself has actively contributed to debates on immigration and thinking about social complexities[11]

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "Vertovec, Steven".
  2. JSTOR 41849566
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  3. ^ Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. "Humboldt Netzwerk". www.humboldt-foundation.de. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  4. ^ "Steven Vertovec, D.Phil". www.wiko-berlin.de. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  5. ^ "Taking the podium in Europe".
  6. ^ "Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) | ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council". www.researchcatalogue.esrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  7. ^ "Council Members".
  8. S2CID 143674657
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  9. ^ Mirza, Aisha (2015-07-28). "London's super-diversity is a joy". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  10. ^ Kaube, Jürgen (2007-11-20). "Erforscher der Superdiversität". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
  11. ^ Vertovec, Steven (2015-10-25). "Was die Zuwanderung mit Deutschland macht". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 2018-02-21.

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