Montserrat Guibernau is Reader in Politics at the Open University and holds a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. She has previously taught at the universities of Cambridge, Warwick and Barcelona. Her publications include, "Nationalisms" (Polity, 1996), "The Ethnicity Reader" (with J. Rex, Polity, 1997), "Nations without States" (Polity, 1999), "Governing European Diversity" (2001), "Understanding Nationalism" (with J. Hutchinson, Polity, 2001) and "The Accommodation of National Minorities in Democratic Plural Societies" (with A. Gagnon and F. Rocher, 2003).