Participants

Ulf Hannerz

Ulf Hannerz is Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden, and has taught at several American, European and Australian universities. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a former Chair of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. His research has been especially in urban anthropology, media anthropology and transnational cultural processes. Most recently he has been engaged in a study of the work of news media foreign correspondents, including field research in four continents. Among his books are Soulside (1969), Exploring the City (1980), Cultural Complexity (1992) and Transnational Connections (1996); several of them have also appeared in French, Spanish, and Italian. He is also Anthropology editor for the new International Enyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, appearing in 2001.