Prof. Dr. Christian Karner

Christian Karner is Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln (UK). Prior to this, Christian was Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He has also been a Leverhulme Special Research Fellow, and he has spent time as a (senior) visiting researcher at the University of Minnesota, the University of New Orleans, and at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). Christian’s research and teaching expertise falls into the areas of political sociology, nationalism- and ethnicity studies, memory studies, and urban sociology.

Christian is the author of 4 single-authored books, and he has co-edited another 7 books. He has also published nearly 70 chapters, articles in leading social science and humanities journals, and contributions in other outlets. His most recent books and edited collections include: Nationalism Revisited: Austrian Social Closure from Romanticism to the Digital Age (Berghahn, 2020); Dividing United Europe: From Crisis to Fragmentation? (co-edited with Aline Sierp, Routledge 2019); (Kon-)Texte des Politischen (co-edited with Lukasz Kumiega, Beltz, 2018); and National Identity and Europe in Times of Crisis (co-edited with Monika Kopytowska, Emerald 2017). At the moment, Christian is working on another monograph and on a co-edited research handbook, both of which explore sociology’s responses to the challenges of globalization and “glocalization”.