Paul StathamPaul Statham is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of EurPolCom, the International Research Network on European Political Communications, hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. He was formerly a Professor at th University of Leeds and a researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin. His research focuses on European integration and the public sphere and on multiculturalism, Islam, and migrants' political mobilization in Europe, within a cross-national comparative framework. He has published more than 20 articles in international scholarly journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, Western European Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Harvard Journal of Press/Politics, the European Journal of Communication, Ethnicities, Journalism, Mobilization, and the European Political Science Review. He is co-author of Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe with Ruud Koopmans, Marco Giugni, and Florence Passy. He also co-edited Challenging Immigration and Ethnic Relations Politics. His research program has been supported by six major grant awards from the European Framework Programme and two from the British Economic and Social Research Council. Read More Read Less