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Xavier Coller

Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ph.D, MPhil, MA, Yale University

Journalist and sociologist, Xavier Coller comes to the BMW Center for German and European Studies as the Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor for the academic year 2006-2007. He is a tenured associate professor at the Universidad de Barcelona and has also taught at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Yale University, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Universidad de Alicante, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, and ESADE. He customarily teaches sociology and political science while researching multinational companies, political elites and nationalism.

Professor Coller was a visiting fellow at Warwick University (UK), University of California (Berkeley), Yale University, and Harvard University. He is the seventh Prince of Asturias Chair at Georgetown University. Currently, he is researching the social and political background of regional elites in Spain and its relationship with political and parliamentarian conflict. He has plans to extend this research project to the European level.

Professor Coller has been published extensively in both European and American journals in the fields of political sociology and sociology of organizations. His publication records include 9 books, 17 articles and a number of book reviews. His latest books are Canon Sociologico (Madrid: Tecnos, 2003), and Analisis de organizaciones (Madrid: CIS, 2004, with Roberto Garvia).

He is the winner of the 2003 Sussman Dissertation Award (Yale University) and has also received an honourable mention in the 2003 Seymour Martin Lipset Award (Society for Comparative Research, Princeton University). His dissertation (Fragmented Identities and Political Conflict: Failed Nationalism in a Multinational State) was a finalist in the yearly competition for best dissertations of the ASA (2004).

An overview of activities of the Asturias Professors over the past three years is provided in the Prince of Asturias Visiting Professorship Report 2000-2003.