Bob W. White

{{short description|Canadian anthropologist}}

Bob W. White is an full professor of social anthropology at the University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an expert in the Council of Europe's Intercultural Cities program and the director and founder of the Laboratory for Research on Intercultural Relations (LABRRI) at the University of Montreal.{{cite web|url=https://www.coe.int/el/web/interculturalcities/icc-experts/-/asset_publisher/7TETDuGseIIi/content/white-bob|title=Intercultural cities experts: WHITE Bob|publisher=Council of Europe|access-date=2023-06-25}}{{cite web|url=https://uocal.uottawa.ca/en/node/25028|title=City-based inclusion networks in a post-multicultural world|date=2020-02-24|publisher=University of Ottawa|access-date=2023-06-25}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://migrationresearch.com/experts/bob-w-white/456|title=Bob W. White|publisher=Migration Research Hub|access-date=2023-06-25}}{{cite web|url=https://recherche.umontreal.ca/nos-chercheurs/repertoire-des-professeurs/chercheur/is/in14526/|title=Bob W. WHITE|publisher=University of Montreal|access-date=2023-06-25}}{{cite web|url=https://currents.ucsc.edu/00-01/01-01/newfac.html|title=New Faculty|date=2001-01-01|publisher=University of California Santa Cruz|access-date=2023-06-25}} 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.

White received his BA in anthropology and international studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988; his MA from McGill University in 1993; and his PhD in anthropology from McGill in 1998. His PhD dissertation was titled: " Modernity's Spiral: Popular Culture, Mastery and the Politics of Dance Music in Congo-Kinshasa."{{cite web|url=https://amesa.library.columbia.edu/scholars/643?locale=en|title=Bob W. White|publisher=Columbia University Libraries|access-date=2023-06-25}} 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. He has been a visiting professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, the International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences in Germany, and Meiji University in Tokyo. White was awarded the Society for Urban, National and Transnational Anthropology's Anthony Leeds Prize (2009) and the Canadian Association of African Studies' Joel Gregory Prize (2010) for his book Rumba Rules. The book was also a finalist for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize.