Editing Manuel Castells (section)

===Academic career===
[[File:PrixBalzan2013-photoMosimann.jpg|thumb|Castells and other recipients of the Balzan prize in 2013]]

At the age of twenty-four, Castells became an instructor in several Parisian universities, and would teach from 1967 to 1979. First, he taught at the [[Paris X University Nanterre]] (where he taught [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]]). He was terminated from this position as a result of the [[May 1968 protests in France|1968 student protests]]. He then taught at the [[École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales]] from 1970 to 1979.

In 1979, the [[University of California, Berkeley]] appointed him as Professor of Sociology, and Professor of [[city planning|City and Regional Planning]]. In 2001, he was a research professor at the UOC-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya ([[Open University of Catalonia]]), Barcelona. Then, in 2003, he joined the [[University of Southern California]] (USC) [[University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication|Annenberg School for Communication]], as a professor of Communication and the first [[Wallis Annenberg]]-endowed Chair of Communication and Technology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Endowed.aspx |title=Endowed Faculty Chairs |publisher=USC Annenberg |access-date=4 February 2012 |archive-date=24 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124233549/http://www.annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Endowed.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> Castells is a founding member of the [[USC Center on Public Diplomacy]], and a senior member of the diplomacy center's Faculty Advisory Council and is a member of the [http://arnic.info/ Annenberg Research Network on International Communication].

Castells divides his residence between Spain and the US. Since 2008, he has been a member of the governing board of the [[European Institute of Innovation and Technology]]. He has been the minister of universities in Spain since January 2020 until December 2021.