Raymond Taras

Raymond Taras
Born (1946-11-06) November 6, 1946 (age 77)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Known forResearch in Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe
Board member ofFulbright Distinguished Chair at Australian National University in Canberra
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Academic work
DisciplineSociologist, political scientist
Sub-disciplinemulticulturalism, 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 interestsCentral and Eastern Europe
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/raytaras/

Raymond Taras (also Ray Taras) is a Canadian political scientist.[1][2] 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 is 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).[1]

Languages spoken: Polish (first language), Canadian French (language of education), intermediate level in Russian and Spanish, as well as basics in Swedish and Danish.[1]

Raymond Taras was born in a Polish family in Montreal, Canada.[2]

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

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