Kenneth A. Thompson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Open University. He teaches and researches in the areas of culture, media and identities; cultural governance; ethnicity; and French social theory. Professor Thompson is an associate member of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change, Open University/Manchester University; and the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. His recent publications include ‘Globalization and Religion’ in Alexander et al, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Oxford University Press, 2012, 471-83; ‘Cultural Trauma and Moral Panic: 9/11 and the Mosque at Ground Zero Affair, in C. Krinsky (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics, Ashgate, 2013, 387-400; ‘Moral Regulation: Beyond Janet Jackson and The Passion’ in I. Reed and J.C.Alexander (eds.), Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology, Paradigm, 2009, 63-76.
