Xavier Coller

Universidad Pablo de Olavide

xavier coller Xavier Coller, journalist and sociologist, is PhD in Sociology (Yale University). He has taught in several universities in Europe and the US and has been visiting fellow at Warwick University (UK), University of California (Berkeley), Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, and Université de Montpellier 1. He was the Seventh Prince of Asturias Chair, Georgetown University (2005-07) and currently teaches at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). He has authored over forty works on social theories, research methods, collective identities, political elites, and complex organizations. His areas of expertise are organizations (multinationals) and political sociology (political elites, nationalism). He is the winner of several international awards, among them the 2003 Sussman Dissertation Award (Yale University), and an honourable mention in the 2003 Seymour Martin Lipset Award (Society for Comparative Research, Princeton University). His last books are Canon sociológico (Madrid: Tecnos, 2003), and Análisis de organizaciones (Madrid: CIS, 2004, with Roberto Garvía). He can be contacted at xavier.coller@aya.yale.edu. More information in http://www.upo.es/xaviercoller

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Xavier Coller

Universidad Pablo de Olavide