Professor David Lane is an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK, and previously was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
David was educated at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford (Nuffield College) and has taught at the Universities of Birmingham, where he was Professor of Sociology, and at Essex University. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell, Odense, Harvard, Sabanci (Istanbul), Graz, the Kennan Institute (Washington DC), Shandong and Peking. He has visited and lectured at many universities and research institutes in the countries of the former USSR and eastern and central Europe China and Japan.
He has published widely on state socialist societies, the USSR, Marxism, elites, class and social stratification; his current research focuses on transformation, globalization, ‘varieties of capitalism’, neoliberalism, alternatives to capitalism, the enlargement of the European Union and the formation of the Eurasian Union.
