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Stuart Hall
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Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist
Key facts
- Born
- Stuart Henry McPhail Hall , ( 1932-02-03 ) 3 February 1932, Kingston , British Jamaica
- Died
- 10 February 2014 (2014-02-10) (aged 82), London , England
- Occupations
- Sociologist, cultural theorist, political activist
- Known for
- Founding New Left Review
- Spouse
- Catherine Hall ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 )
- Children
- 2, including Jess
- Alma mater
- Merton College, Oxford
- Influences
- Louis Althusser Roland Barthes Umberto Eco Michel Foucault Antonio Gramsci Richard Hoggart Karl Marx Raymond Williams
- Discipline
- Cultural studies sociology
- School or tradition
- Birmingham School of Cultural Studies , Marxist sociology
- Institutions
- University of Birmingham Open University
- Doctoral students
- Paul Gilroy
- Notable students
- Gregor McLennan
- Notable ideas
- Encoding/decoding model of communication
- Influenced
- Les Back Rey Chow Ashley Dawson Michael Denning Brent Hayes Edwards Lawrence Grossberg Dick Hebdige Ralina Joseph Isaac Julien Roshini Kempadoo
- Website
- www .stuarthallfoundation .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Hall
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- Catherine Hall
- Occupation
- art theorist
- Position held
- professor emeritus
- Employer
- University of Birmingham
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Doctoral student
- Paul Gilroy
- Field of work
- culturology
- Image
- Hall Stuart.jpg
Show 12 more facts
- date of birth
- 1932-02-03
- date of death
- 2014-02-10
- member of
- British Academy
- birth name
- Stuart McPhail Hall
- Commons category
- Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- influenced by
- Karl Marx
- professorship
- professor
- name in native language
- Stuart Hall
- place of burial
- Highgate Cemetery
- contributed to creative work
- New Left Review
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall – along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
In the 1950s, Hall was a founder of the influential journal New Left Review. At Hoggart's invitation, he joined the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) at the University of Birmingham in 1964. Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the CCCS in 1968, became its director in 1972, and remained there until 1979. While at the centre, Hall is credited with playing a role in expanding the scope of cultural studies to deal with race and gender, and with helping to incorporate new ideas derived from the work of French theorists such as Michel Foucault.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stuart Hall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.