Steven Vertovec is Former Director of COMPAS (2003-7) and currently Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity based in Gottingen, Germany www.mmg.mpg.de .
He is a social anthropologist and the author of books such as 'The Hindu Diaspora', as well as editor or co-editor of numerous volumes including 'Islam in Europe', 'Migration and Social Cohesion' and 'Conceiving Cosmopolitanism'.
Steven was Director of the ESRC Research Programme on Transnational Communities (1997-2003). Earlier he was Principal Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations 1994-7. He has held research fellowships at the University of California, Free University Berlin, and Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.
Recent Publications
Vertovec, S., 2007, 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism', introduction to special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6) (Steven Vertovec, Ed.).
Vertovec, S., 2007, 'Super-diversity and its implications', Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6).
Vertovec, S., 2007, 'New Complexities of Cohension in Britatin: Super-diversity, Transnationalism and Civil-Integration', report written for the Commission on Integration and Cohesion (CIC).