Dr. Steven Vertovec is Research Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Director of the British Economic and Social Research Council's Research Programme on Transnational Communities (a national research agenda concerning new ways in which a variety of groups and institutions are globally connected; see http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk). His research interests surround globalization and transnationalism, ethnicity, Hinduism and Islam, religious minorities and multiculturalism.
He is author of Hindu Trinidad: Religion, Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Change (Macmillan, 1992) and The Hindu Diaspora: Comparative Patterns (Routledge, 2000), editor of Aspects of the South Asian Diaspora (Oxford University Press, 1991) and Migration and Social Cohesion (Edward Elgar, 1999), and co-editor of South Asians Overseas: Migration and Ethnicity (Cambridge University Press, 1990), The Urban Context: Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis (Berg, 1995), Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community (Macmillan 1997), Muslim European Youth: Re-producing Religion, Ethnicity and Culture (Ashgate, 1998) and Migration, Diasporas and Transnationalism (Edward Elgar, 1999).
