Steven Vertovec

Steven Vertovec
Born(1957-07-02)2 July 1957
CitizenshipUS and British
Alma materUniversity of Colorado,
University of California, Santa Barbara,
Oxford University
Known forSuperdiversity, Backlash against Multiculturalism, The Urban Context: Ethnicity, Social Networks, and Situational Analysis
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology, Diversity Studies, Transnationalism, 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 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, based in Göttingen, Germany. He is also currently Honorary Joint Professor of Sociology and Ethnology at the Georg August University of Göttingen and Supernumerary Fellow at Linacre College, Oxford.