Biography

Dr. Christian Karner is Lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, where he specializes in the sociology of ethnicity, nationalism and religion. His other recent publications include work on Austrian national identities, religion and globalization, social theory, and traveler identities. Dr. Karner is also co-editor (with James Crossley) of Writing History, Constructing Religion (2005, Ashgate), and he is currently working on a book on Ethnicity and Everyday Life (forthcoming, Routledge).