덴마크 올보르 대학교(Aalborg University) 교수이다. 저서로 The Transformation of Modernity(Ashgate, 2001), Erving Goffman(Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002), The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman(Ashgate 2008), Public Sociology(Aalborg University Press, 2009), Encountering the Everyday(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), The Contemporary Goffman(Routledge, 2010), Utopia: Social Theory and the Future(Ashgate, 2013), Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences(Ashgate, 2013), Deconstructing Death(University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013), The Poetics of Crime(Ashgate, 2014)이 있다.