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Tony is Professor of Sociology, and Director ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change at the Open University.
Professor Bennett's general research interests lie in areas where the concerns of sociology, cultural studies and cultural history intersect. Areas of special interest include: (i) the history and theory of museums, and the role played by diverse systems of representing and remembering the past in the construction of particular ways of being and acting in time; (ii) the history and theory of the development of modern forms of cultural governance and their role in shaping social conduct; (iii) statistical and ethnographic studies of everyday cultural practice and their relevance to the concerns of both contemporary class theory and cultural policy development; (iv) the development of forms of cultural analysis; and (iv) the relationships between social theory and cultural theory.
He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (Routledge, 2004); Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life (edited with E. Silva, The Sociology Press, 2004); Culture in Australia : Policies, Publics, Programs (edited with D. Carter, Cambridge University Press, 2001); Differing Diversities: Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity (Council of Europe, 2001); Understanding Everyday Life (edited by D. Waton, Blackwell Publishing, 2001); Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with J. Frow & M. Emmison, Cambridge University Press, 1999); Culture: A Reformer’s Science (Sage, 1998); The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge, 1995); Outside Literature (Routledge, 1990). He is also editing a Handbook of Cultural Analysis for Sage Publications with Professor John Frow of the University of Edinburgh .
For further information visit http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/tbennett/info.html
Lawrence is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies, and the Director of the University Program in Cultural Studies, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
Professor Grossberg is an internationally renowned scholar of cultural studies and popular culture, and the co- editor of the international journal Cultural Studies. He has authored or edited (alone or with others) 20 books, and published close to 200 essays. His work has been translated into ten other languages, and he has lectured all over the world. He has won the highest awards for both scholarship and mentorship from both the National Communication Association, and the International Communication Association.
His latest books include Bringing it all Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies, and Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture (both Duke University Press, 1997), Media Making: Mass Media in a Popular Culture (with Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney, Sage, 1998), New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society (With Tony Bennett and Meaghan Morris, Blackwell Publishing, 2005) and Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, politics and America’s future (Paradigm, 2005).
For further information visit http://www.unc.edu/depts/cultstud/pages/folk.html
Meaghan is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies and Coordinator of the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme at Lingnan University , Hong Kong .
Professor Morris’s books include ‘Race’ Panic and the Memory of Migration (co-edited with Brett de Bary, 2001); Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (1998); Australian Cultural Studies: A reader (co-edited with John Frow) and The Pirate’s Fiancée: feminism, reading, postmodernism (1988). She is Senior Editor of Traces: a Multilingual Journal of Cultural Theory and Translation, and in 2004 was elected Chair of the international Association for Cultural Studies. Her latest book, Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (co-edited with Stephen Chan and Siu-leung Li), is forthcoming from Hong Kong University Press.
For further information visit http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/faculty/staff_01.shtml
