New series editor for FRINGE series

Posted on 4th November, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Uta Staiger as a new series editor of the FRINGE series.

Uta is Associate Professor of European Studies and Executive Director of the UCL European Institute, a European Commission designated Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Since 2010, she has led the Institute in its mission to develop and support UCL research and teaching activities on Europe across faculties, advise UCL leadership on European matters, and maximise the reach and impact of UCL expertise beyond the university. She joins Dr. Peter Zusi, who previously co-edited the series with Prof. Alena Ledaneva.

The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices. Popular titles in the series include ‘Am I Less British?’, Violent Affections, Writing Resistance and Central Peripheries, in addition to the 3 volume Global Encyclopaedia of Informality.

We would like to thank outgoing series editor Prof. Alena Ledeneva, who was pivotal in the successful establishment of the series, for her tenure as series editor.