Professor Hall is currently the James McGill Professor of Sociologgy at McGill University in Montréal. He has held previous posts at Southampton University and Harvard University. He has edited collections dealing with the state, the rise of capitalism, the social philosophy of Ernest Gellner, the theory of nationalism and the nature of civil society. At present he is writing a biography of Ernest Gellner and an analytic history of sociological theory. He was an Invited Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala, Sweden, during the 1999-2000 academic year, Visiting Research Professor (1999-2002) at Queen's University in Belfast, and the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford in 2003. He has been an Honorary Professor of Sociology and Politics at the University of Copenhagen since 2001. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts 2003-2005.

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Selected Publications:

• Hall, J.A., (Forthcoming). Ernest Gellner. London, Verso.
• Hall, J.A. and R. Schroeder, Eds. (2006). An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-409. Contains my `Political Questions’.
• Campbell, J.L., J.A. Hall and O.K. Pedersen, Eds. (2006). National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 1-525. Contains a co-authored introduction.
• Hall, J.A. and F. Trentmann, Eds. (2005). Civil Society: A Reader. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-320. Contains a co-authored introduction and much editorial material.
• Hall, J.A. and J. Bryant, Eds. (2005). Historical Methods in the Social Sciences. London; Thousand Oaks, Sage. 4 vols. Contains much co-authored editorial material
• Hall, J.A., Paul, T.V. Paul and Ikenberry, G.J., Eds. (2003). The Nation-State in Question. Princeton University Press, pp. 1-384. Contains my introduction, 'Nation-States in History'.