Raymond Taras Explained

Raymond Taras
Birth Date:6 November 1946
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Known For:Research in Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe
Boards:Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Australian National University in Canberra
Website:https://sites.google.com/site/raytaras/
Alma Mater:University of Warsaw
Discipline:Sociologist, political scientist
Sub Discipline:multiculturalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, ethnic conflicts
Workplaces:Tulane 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

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

Published works

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

Notes and References

  1. https://sites.google.com/site/raytaras/ Ray Taras website
  2. http://www.mah.se/english/News/News-2009/From-the-scrapyard-to-the-ivory-tower/ "From the scrapyard to the ivory tower"