Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 1997
Panel: A
Discipline: Sociology

Professor Peter Beilharz

Department of Sociology
La Trobe University

Beilharz, Peter Michael. BA, DipEd (Rusden College), PhD (Monash)

Professor Peter Beilharz holds a personal Chair in sociology at La Trobe University. Professor Beilharz specialises in social theory and the history of socialism. He is an editor of the Sage/La Trobe journal Thesis Eleven. Recent research includes:

  • the work of Bernard Smith
  • the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman
  • future research includes a project on the work of Robert Hughes.

Key appointments

  • 1999-2000, Professor of Australian Studies, Harvard University.

Key publications

  • Beilharz, P. (2000) The Bauman Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Beilharz, P. (2000) Zygmunt Bauman - Dialectic of Modernity. London: Sage.
  • Beilharz, P. wi th C.Nyland (1998) The Webbs, Fabianism and Feminism. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Beilharz, P. (1997) Imagining the Antipodes - Theory, culture and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.


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