PAUL STATHAM - PROFESSOR and DIRECTOR of EurPolCom Department of Sociology, Ethnicity Centre, 3 Priory Rd, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TX, United Kingdom. Tel: 0044 (0)117 3310608 or 0044 (0)207 6871192 Email: paul.statham@blueyonder.co.uk or paul.statham@bristol.ac.uk CURRENT PROJECTS EUROPUB.COM CONSTITUTION EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY - NEWS EVENT ANALYSIS (ESSi NA4) EURISLAM BIOGRAPHY Paul Statham is Director of EurPolCom and Professor of Political Sociology in the Sociology Department at the University of Bristol. He is also Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Citizenship located in the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs (BIPA). Paul's research focuses topically on 'European integration and the Public Sphere' and 'Multiculturalism, Islam and Minority Mobilisation in Europe' within a cross-national comparative framework. These interests have been supported by his award of six major grant awards from the European Framework Programme and two from the British Economic and Social Research Council, totalling more than £1.4M. His newest research project is the EU-funded project 'EURISLAM: Finding a Place for Islam: Cultural Interactions between Muslim Immigrants and Receiving Societies in Europe' which investigates the degree and form of cultural interaction between groups of Muslim migrants and their societies of settlement, comparing Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. He also conducts projects developing methods for news' contents analysis and is currently responsible for a project combining news event analysis with survey data responses within the European Social Survey. Paul has published more than 20 articles in international scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Ethnicities, and the Harvard Journal Press/Politics, contributed a similar number of chapters to books, and was a co-author of 'Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe' (2005), an output from the MERCI project. Currently, he is completing a volume entitled 'The Making of a European Public Sphere' from the Europub.com project jointly with Ruud Koopmans that will be published with Cambridge University Press. Paul was formerly a Professor at the University of Leeds, where he worked at the Institute of Communications Studies from 1999 to 2006, founding EurPolCom in 2000. He was also a Senior Researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin WZB, from 1995 to 1999, and before that conducted his doctoral research at the European University Institute, from 1989 to 1994. In 2008, he was made a Visiting Professor at the Journalism Department at City University, London, where he collaborates on the European Social Survey. During May and June, 2009, Paul holds a Research Professorship at the WZB Berlin as a member of the Department'Migration, Integration, Transnationalism'. PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni and Florence Passy'Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe', 2005. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press. To order the book from the publisher, click on the link. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham (eds.), 2000. Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 433. SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (downloads in bold) Paul Statham. 2008. 'Making Europe News: How Journalists View their Role and Performance' Journalism. Theory, Practice and Criticism 9(4):395-419.Statham_Journalism.pdf Paul Statham. 2008. 'Political Party Contestation over Europe in Public Discourses: Emergent Euroscepticism?' Arena Working Paper Series 08/2008, http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/working-papers2008/papers/wp08_08.xml, 2008.Arena_WP.pdf Julie Firmstone and Paul Statham. 2008. 'Los debates mediáticos sobre la Unión Europea y la ratificación del Tratado Constitucional en la esfera pública británica.' in Hans Jörg Trenz, Agustín José Menéndez y Fernando Losada (eds.) ¿Y por fin somos europeos? La comunicación política en el debate constituyente europeo. Madrid: Dykinson. Paul Statham and Hans Joerg Trenz. 2008. 'El análisis de las expresiones públicas de voluntad o cómo estudiar la dimensión pública del proceso de integración constitucional de la Unión Europea' in Hans Jörg Trenz, Agustín José Menéndez y Fernando Losada (eds.) ¿Y por fin somos europeos? La comunicación política en el debate constituyente europeo. Madrid: Dykinson. Paul Statham. 2008. 'False Claims and 'Double Dutch' - A Reply' Ethnicities 8(1):139-143. Paul Statham. 2007. 'Political Communication, European Integration, and the Transformation of National Public Spheres' in J.E. Fossum and P. Schlesinger The European Union and the Public Sphere: A Communicative Space in the Making?. P.110-134. eds. London: Routledge. Paul Statham. 2007. 'Journalists as Commentators on European Politics: Educators, Partisans or Ideologues.' European Journal of Communication 22(4):461-477.statham_EJC.pdf Paul Statham. 2007. 'Forging Divergent and 'Path Dependent' Ways to Europe? Political Communication over European Integration in the British and French Public Spheres' in C. de Vraes and H. Schmitt eds. A European Public Sphere: How much of it do we have and how much do we need? P.79-142. CONNEX, MZES: Mannheim. Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni and Florence Passy 2007. 'The Denationalization of Immigration Politics: Is It Happening and Who Benefits?' Pp. 225-256 in Oliver Schmidtke and Saime Ozcurumez eds. Of States, Rights and Social Closure: Governing Migration and Citizenship, New York: Palgrave. Paul Statham and Andrew Geddes. 2006. 'Elites and Organized Publics: Who Drives British Immigration Politics and in Which Direction?' Western European Politics 29(2):245-66. and also reproduced 2007 in V. Guiraudon and G. Lahav eds. Immigration Policy in Europe. The Politics of Control. p48-69. New York/Oxford: Routledge.WEP.pdf Paul Statham. 2006. 'The Need to Take Religion Seriously for Understanding Multicultural Controversies: Institution Channelling versus Cultural Identification?' in M. Giugni and F. Passy (eds.) Dialogues in Migration Policy. p157-168. Lanham, MD: Lexington. Paul Statham, Ruud Koopmans, Marco Giugni and Florence Passy . 2005. 'Resilient or Adaptable Islam? Multiculturalism, Religion and Migrants' Claims-making for Group Demands in Britain, the Netherlands and France' Ethnicities 5(4):427-459.ETH.pdf Paul Statham and Ruud Koopmans. 2005. 'Multiculturalisme et Conflits Culturels: le défi posé par les revendications des groupes musulmans en Grande-Bretagne et aux Pays-Bas' in Lionel Arnaud ed., Les minorités ethniques dans l'Union européenne. Politiques, mobilisations, identités. p139-163. Paris: Éditions La Découverte. Marco Giugni, Ruud Koopmans, Florence Passy and Paul Statham, 2005. 'Institutional and Discursive Opportunities for Extreme-Right Mobilization in Five Countries' Mobilization. International Journal of Research and Theory about Social Movements, Protest and Collective Behavior. 10(1): 145-162. Emily Gray and Paul Statham, 2005. 'Becoming European? The Transformation of the British Pro-Migrant NGO Sector in Response to Europeanization'. Journal of Common Market Studies. Vol.43, no.4, pp.877-98.EJCMS.pdf Paul Statham and Emily Gray, 2005. 'Public Debates over Europe in Britain: Exceptional and Conflict-Driven?' Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. Vol 18:1, March: 61-81. Statham_and_Gray_2005.pdf Paul Statham, 2004. 'Muslim Controversies in Europe'. Harvard International Review 26:3, Fall. Paul Statham, 2003. 'Understanding the Anti-Asylum Rhetoric: Restrictive Politics or Racist Publics?' Political Quarterly vol.74, no.1, pp.163-177. PQ.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2003. 'How national citizenship shapes transnationalism: a comparative analysis of migrant and minority claims-making in Germany, Great Britain and the Netherlands.' Christian Joppke and Ewa Morawska (eds.) Toward Assimilation and Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States. Pages 195-238. London: Palgrave. pstrans.pdf Paul Statham, 2003. 'New Conflicts about Integration and Cultural Diversity in Britain: The Muslim Challenge to Race Relations'. In René Cuperus, Karl A. Duffek, Johannes Kandel (eds.) The Challenge of Diversity: European Social Democracy Facing Migration, Integration, and Multiculturalism. Pages 126-149. Innsbruck/Wien/München: StudienVerlag. psnewconflicts.pdf Paul Statham, 2002. 'United Kingdom (UK)'. Racism and Cultural Diversity in the Mass Media. An Overview of Research and Examples of Good practice in the EU Member States, 1995-2000. Pages 395-419. Vienna: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC). psUK.pdf Paul Statham, 2001. 'Political Opportunities for Altruism? The role of state policies in influencing British anti-racist and pro-migrant movements'. Marco Giugni and Florence Passy (eds.) Political Altruism? Solidarity Movements in International Perspective, pp.133-158. New York/Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Press. psalt.pdf Paul Statham, 2001. 'Zwischen oeffentlicher Sichtbarkeit und politischem Einfluss: Mobilisierung gegen Rassismus und fuer Migranten in Grossbritannien' Neue Soziale Bewegungen Forschungsjournal, Jg.14, Heft 1/01, pp.72-86. Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2000. 'Migration, Ethnic Relations, and Xenophobia as a Field of Political Contention: An Opportunity Structure Approach', in Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham (eds.) Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics: Comparative European Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.13-56. psxeno.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 2000. 'Political Claims-making Against Racism and Discrimination in Britain and Germany'. Jessika ter Wal and Maykel Verkuyten (eds.) Comparative Perspectives on Racism, pp.139-170. Aldershot, Burlington (USA), Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate. psclaims.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 1999. 'Ethnic and Civic Conceptions of Nationhood and the Differential Success of the Extreme Right in Germany and Italy.' Marco Giugni, Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly (eds.) How Social Movements Matter, pp.225-251. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. psnation.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 1999. 'Challenging the Liberal Nation-State? Postnationalism, Multiculturalism, and the Collective Claims Making of Migrants and Ethnic Minorities in Britain and Germany' American Journal of Sociology, vol.105, no.3, pp.652-696. AJS.pdf Paul Statham, 1999. 'Political Mobilisation by Minorities in Britain: a negative feedback of 'race relations'?' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol.25, no.4, pp.597-626. psmin.pdf Marco Martiniello and Paul Statham (eds.), 1999. Ethnic Mobilisation and Political Participation in Europe. Special issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol.25, no.4, pages 211. Basingstoke, Hants: Carfax Publishing, Taylor and Francis Ltd. psjems99.pdf Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham, 1999. 'Political Claims Analysis: integrating protest event and political discourse approaches.' Mobilization: The International Journal of Research and Theory about Social Movements, Protest and Collective Behavior, vol.4, no.2, pp.203-221. psmob.pdf Paul Statham, 1996. 'Berlusconi, the Media, and the New Right in Italy.' The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, vol.1, no.1, pp.87-105. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. psberl.pdf Paul Statham, 1996. 'Television News and the Public Sphere in Italy: conflicts at the media politics interface'. European Journal of Communication, vol.11, no.4, pp.509-554. psTV.pdf