Raymond Taras | |
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| Born | November 6, 1946 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Known for | Research in Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe |
| Board member of | Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Australian National University in Canberra |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist, political scientist |
| Sub-discipline | multiculturalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, ethnic conflicts |
| Institutions | 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 |
| Website | https://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]