Manuel Castells

Manuel Castells (b. 1942 in Hellín, (Albacete), Spain) is a sociologist. Raised primarily in Barcelona as part of a conservative family, Castells became politically active in the student anti-Franco movement as a teenager, moving to Paris to finish his degree at the age of 20. After completing a doctorate in Sociology at the University of Paris, he taught at the university between 1967 and 1979, first at the Nanterre Campus, then, from 1970 to 1979, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 1979 he was appointed Professor of Sociology and Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2001 he also became a research professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona. In 2003 he joined the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication as a professor of communication and the first Wallis Annenberg endowed Chair of Communication and Technology.

Related Topics:
Hellín, (Albacete) - Spain - Sociologist - Franco - University of Paris - City and Regional Planning - University of California, Berkeley - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - Barcelona - University of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication

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Castells lives in Barcelona and Santa Monica, California and is married to Emma Kiselyova.

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