Doctoral Fellowship opportunity
Larry Gross <lpgross <at> usc.edu>
2003-12-01 23:55:25 GMT
The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern
California is offering a Wallis Annenberg Doctoral Fellowship. The
selected Ph.D. candidate will serve as a research fellow under Manuel
Castells, Wallis Annenberg Professor of Communication Technology and
Society. Castells is, as well, Research Professor at the Open University
of Catalonia in Barcelona, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of
City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Previously, Castells was at the School for Advanced Studies in Social
Sciences at the University of Paris. In 1979 he was appointed Professor
of City and Regional Planning and of Sociology at the University of
California, Berkeley. In 1988-93, while remaining on the Berkeley
faculty, he was Professor and Director of the Institute for Sociology of
New Technologies, at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He has also
been a visiting professor at the Universities of Montreal, Catolica de
Chile, FLACSO-Chile, Campinas-Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Metropolitana de
Mexico, UNAM- Mexico, Central de Venezuela, Copenhagen, Geneva,
Amsterdam, Oxford, Moscow, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan,
Hitotsubashi-Tokyo, Wisconsin-Madison, Boston, and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Castells is the author of 21 books and editor or co-author of 15
additional books. His trilogy "The Information Age: Economy, Society,
and Culture" [Blackwell, 1996-98; 2nd edition, 2000-2003] has been
translated into 18 languages His most recent books are "The Internet
Galaxy" (Oxford University Press, 2001), "The Information Society and
the Welfare State: The Finnish Model" (Oxford University Press, 2002,
with Pekka Himanen), and "The Network Society: A Global Perspective"
(London: Edward Elgar, 2004, editor and co-author)
He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship; the C. Wright Mills Award from
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