Education: ONC, Public Administration, Kingston College of Further Education 1975; BSc (Hons), Politics (Major) and Sociology (Minor), Plymouth Polytechnic 1983; PhD, ‘The Origins and Development of Deutschlandpolitik 1969–74’, Plymouth Polytechnic 1988

Career: Karl Cordell is Reader in Politics and Social Science and Head of the Politics and International Relations Group at the University of Plymouth. His teaching interests include comparative European politics and ethnopolitics in Europe, while his research interests include ethnic politics, the politics of ethnicity in East-Central Europe, German politics, Polish politics, and German-Polish relations. In 1994 Karl Cordell founded, and until 1997 chaired, the Ethnic Minority Politics Group of the Political Studies Association. In Spring 2001, he became Co-Chair of the revised Ethnic Politics Group. Together with Professor Stefan Wolff of the University of Nottingham, he re-assumed chairing the group in 2000. Dr Cordell has also undertaken visiting lectureships at the Universities of Northumbria (Spring 1997) and Keele (Autumn, 1999) in the UK, in Poland at the Universities of Kraków (Winter, 2000), Opole (Winter, 2000) and Wrocław (Winter, 1999 to date), and in the United States at the University of Notre Dame (Spring, 2002). His links with the Polish academic community were further strengthened in May 1999 under the auspices of the Socrates programme when he began a series of Visiting Lectureships in European Politics at the University of Wrocław. Dr Cordell is a member of the Political Studies Association and is co-editor of Ethnopolitics (see url below).

Publications include: Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe (editor) 1998, The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe (editor) 2000, Poland and The European Union (editor) 2000, The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (co-editor) 2004, Germany's Foreign Policy towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited (co-author) 2005, Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences and Responses 2007; numerous book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals

Contact details: Address: Room 203, School of Law and Social Science, University of Plymouth, 10 Portland Villas, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, England; Tel: +44 (0)1752 233279; Fax: +44 (0)1752 233201; Email: K.Cordell@plymouth.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=15237/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17449057.asp/ .