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Giselinde Kuipers Associate Professor of Sociology University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Norbert Elias Professor of the Sociology of Long-Term Processes Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Funded by the Norbert Elias Foundation
Research affiliations: the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) and the Center for Rotterdam Cultural Sociology (CROCUS) Teaches in: Bachelor, M.A. and PhD programs in sociology at the University of Amsterdam; and the Research Master in the Sociology of Media, Culture and the Arts at Erasmus University Rotterdam Principal Investigator, Towards a Comparative Sociology of Beauty (ERC Starting grant, 2010-2015) Editor-in-chief: HUMOR International Journal of Humor Research Columnist, Sociologisch Mokum News: Conference Reinventing Norbert Elias: For an open sociology. Amsterdam, 22-23 June 2012. Call for papers here Inaugural lecture "Her Majesty's Bicicycle: On national habitus and sociological comparison" (11 June 2010). The original Dutch text can be found here, the English translation here Research interests: cultural sociology and sociology of culture, social theory, media studies, comparative-historical sociology, process sociology, globalization and transnational culture, sociology of beauty and the body, humor, media, television, translation, cultural industries and production of culture, popular culture, sociology of taste Education:   M.A. (cum laude), cultural anthropology, Utrecht University (1995) PhD (cum laude), sociology, University of Amsterdam (2001)                                                                                                                                (Photograph courtesy of Bob Bronshoff.)