Professor Tariq Modood
BA (Durham), MA (Durham), PGCE (University College Cardiff), PhD (University College Swansea)
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Bristol Institute for Public Affairs, 3 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TX
Tel: 0117 331 0850
Email: t.modood@bristol.ac.uk
Research Interests
Theory and politics of racism, racial equality, multiculturalism and secularism, with especial reference to British Asian Muslims; ethnic identities, national identities and the 'second generation'; ethnic disadvantage and progress in employment and education; comparisons within and between Western Europe and North America; the politics of being Muslim in the West. The topics I am currently most focused on are the political theory and sociology of multiculturalism and secularism.
Current Research
I am the founding Director of the University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship and the Bristol Director of the Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship, with UCL, which consists of 8 projects running between 2003-09. I am directly involved on projects on social capital and gender; national identity and religion; and higher education and globalisation. I am also with Anna Triandafyllidou leading EMILIE: A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship: Legal, Political and Educational Challenges (with 8 EU partners), an EU 6th Framework, project (2006-09). I am a founding co-editor of the journal, Ethnicities, and a regular contributor to the media and to policy discussions and was awarded an MBE for services to social science and ethnic relations in 2001 and elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004. Some of my publications are available on the Centre weblink:
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/ethnicitycitizenship/
Current Teaching
Postgraduate: The Theory and Politics of Multiculturalism
Recent Publications
- (edited with G. B. Levey) Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship, Foreword by Charles Taylor, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea, Polity, May 2007
- Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain. University of Minnesota Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2005.
- (with N. Meer) 'The Multicultural State We Are In: Muslims, 'Multiculture' and the 'Civic re-balancing' of British Multiculturalisms,' Political Studies, early view available on the Political Studies website.
- 'Multiculturalism, Citizenship and National Identity' in B. Turner, E. Isin and P. Nyers (eds) Investigating Citizenship: Between Past and Future, Routledge, 2008.
- 'Is Multiculturalism Dead?' Public Policy Research, June-August 2008, pp. 84-88.
- ‘A Basis for and Two Obstacles In the Way of a Multiculturalist Coalition’, The British Journal of Sociology, 59(1, March 2008): 47-52.
- (with F. Ahmad) ‘British Muslim Perspectives on Multiculturalism’, Theory, Culture and Society, Special Issue on Global Islam guest edited by Bryan Turner and Fredric Volpi, 24 (2), April 2007: 187-214.
- (with Raymond, GG) (Eds.). The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain, Palgrave McMillan, 2007.
- (with A. Triandafyllidou and R. Zapata-Barrero) (eds), Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, Routledge,2006.
- (with R. Dhami and J.Squires) Developing Positive Action Policies: Learning from the Experiences of Europe and North America, Department of Works and Pensions, 2006.
- (with G. Loury and S. Teles) (eds) Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy in the US and UK, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- (with S May and J. Squires) (eds) Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights, Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Young Turks and Kurds: A Set of ‘Invisible’ Disadvantaged Groups, Joseph Rowntree Foundation (with P. Enneli and H. Bradley). 2005.
- (with H. Connor et al) Why the Difference? A closer look at Minority Ethnic Students and Graduates, Research Report 552, Department for Education and Skills, July 2004, pp. i-xxii and 192pp.
- Muslims and the Politics of Difference in Political Quarterly 74 (1), 2003 : 100-115.
- (with M Shiner) Help or Hindrance? Higher Education and the route to Ethnic Equality, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23 (2), June, 2002: 209-232.