Bob W. White

Bob W. White is a full professor of social anthropology at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research interests include intercultural communication, dynamics, and cities; popular culture; French-speaking Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo; immigration policy; ethnographic fieldwork; public policy; systems theory; and pluralism. He is also coordinator of the Network of Municipalities in Immigration and Intercultural Relations of Quebec (RÉMIRI) and is part of a research network between the University of Montreal, the University of Geneva, and the Free University of Brussels. Following this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution. On January 1, 2001, he became an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

2014: Musique populaire et société à Kinshasa. Une ethnographie de l’écoute, L'Harmattan. With Lye M. Yoka.

2017: Intercultural Cities: Policy and Practice for a New Era, Palgrave Macmillan. .

2018: "Valeurs familiales et la méthode Sabido en République démocratique du Congo," in Nouvelles dynamiques familiales en Afrique, University of Quebec Press. With Lino Pungi and Serge Makobo.

2021: "An Intercultural Framework for Theory and Practice in Third Place Libraries", Public Library Quarterly. With Marie D. Martel.

2022: "Methods for the Study of Everyday Cohabitation," Journal of Intercultural Studies. With Annick Germain.