Dr Nasar Meer is Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship, and Chancellor's Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Strathclyde. During 2012-13 hewas a Minda de Gunzberg Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and a member of the British Council's Outreach Program. He has previously studied at the Universities of Essex, Edinburgh, and Bristol, and held a visiting fellowship with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. He presently holds a visiting fellowship with the University of Arhus. Nasar was previously a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the Bristol Institute for Public Affairs.