Raymond Taras

Raymond Taras
Born (1946-11-06) November 6, 1946 (age 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Known forResearch in Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe
Board member of
Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Australian National University in Canberra
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Warsaw
Academic work
DisciplineSociologist, political scientist
Sub-discipline
multiculturalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, ethnic conflicts
InstitutionsTulane University, Harvard University, Stanford University, Michigan University, the European University Institute, Malmö University, Warsaw University, and University of Sussex
Main interests
Central and Eastern Europe
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/raytaras/

Raymond Taras (also Ray Taras) is a Canadian political scientist. His interests include issues of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, multiculturalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, ethnic conflicts, and response to refugee crisis and immigration in the receiving countries. During the 2014–15 academic year Ray Taras was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex. In 2018-19 he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Australian National University in Canberra.

B.A. Université de Montréal, M.A. Sussex university, M.Phil. University of Essex, Ph.D. in political sociology, Warsaw University (1981).

Languages spoken: Polish (first language), Canadian French (language of education), intermediate level in Russian and Spanish, as well as basics in Swedish and Danish.

Raymond Taras was born in a Polish family in Montreal, Canada.

Published works

Ray Taras is an author and editor of over 20 monographs and over 100 articles

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ray Taras website
  2. 1 2 "From the scrapyard to the ivory tower", Malmo University, news 2009-2010 accessed September 28, 2014