Daniele Conversi received his PhD at the London School of Economics. He taught at the Government and History Depts. at Cornell and Syracuse Universities, as well as at the Central European University, Budapest. He is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln and Visiting academic at LSE.
His first book, 'The Basques, the Catalans, and Spain',  was acclaimed by political scientists, historians and sociologists alike, and has been positively reviewed in nearly fourty international journals (also available in Nevada University Press' paperback edition and in Catalan translation). His latest volume, Ethnonationalism in the Contemporary World, is a collection of essays by some of the top international scholars entirely devoted Walker Connor's seminal contribution.  Daniele Conversi is currently working on a larger volume on theories of nationalism.

Other projects include:
- Cosmopolitanism and nationalism
- Boundaries, international security and the roots of violence
- Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism
- Federalism and ethnic conflict resolution
- Globalization, Americanization and anti-Americanism
- Genocide and ethnic cleansing
- National and ethnic conflict in Southern Europe: comparing former Yugoslavia, Italy and Spain.
 

Geographical areas of interest:  Spain, Italy, former Yugoslavia, Mediterranean countries
Fields:   Globalization, Comparative Politics, Theories of nationalism, Ethnic conflict resolution, Political Sociology

Membership in several professional associations.

Academic Journals' Editorial Boards.

A list of selected publications is available at:  http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/conversi/CV.html