Stuart Hall
• 3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014
• Jamaican-born 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 that is now known as Centre for contemporary Cultural Studies
• In the 1950s Hall was a founder of the influential New Left Review.
• Hall took over from Hoggart as acting director of the Centre 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 like Michel Foucault.
• Hall left the centre in 1979 to become a professor of sociology at the Open University.
• Books
* Familiar Strangers
*Cultural Studies 1983
* Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman
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