Raymond Taras
Professor - Political Science
Spring 2022-Fall 2022
School of Liberal Arts
https://sites.google.com/site/raytaras/
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Associated Faculty
Region
- North America
- South America
Additional Info
Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:
- POLA 4450: Politics and Literature
- Controversy over Immigration
- Phobias and Foreign Policy
- POLC 3410: Politics and Nationalism
- World Politics & Cinema
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:
10
Research
International migration in South America, Nationalism, Postnationalism, and Identity Politics, Casta Paintings, Comparative Communism, Eastern European Relations with Latin America
Degrees
- B.A., Université de Montreal, Political Science, 1967
- M.Phil., University of Essex, Comparative Politics, 1974
- Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Political Studies, 1982
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Sussex, 2015-16
- Fulbright Distinguished Chair in European Studies, University of Warsaw, 2013-2014
- Willy Brandt Professor, Malmö University, Sweden 2010-11
- Professor, Tulane University, 1996-
- Visiting Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark, 1999
- Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1988-1996
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1984-1988
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1983-1984
Distinctions
- Latin American Studies Research Grant, 2012
- Latin American Studies Center Travel and Research Grants, Tulane University, 2006
- National Endowment for the Humanities, “Global Texts, Cultural Contexts,” 2003-2006
- Mortar Board Award for Teaching Excellence, Tulane University, 1995, 2001
- National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1990-1991
Languages
- French
- Polish
- Russia
- Spanish
Overseas Experience
- Mexico
- Peru
Selected Publications
- 2018. Nationhood, migration and global politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming. Includes case study ‘Peru:Indígena, mestizo, criollo”
- 2015. Fear and the making of foreign policy: Europe and beyond. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- 2012. Challenging multiculturalism: managing diversity across Europe. Editor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- 2012. Xenophobia and Islamophobia in Europe. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- 2010. Understanding Ethnic Conflict. 4th edition. With Rajat Ganguly. New York: Longman.
- 2009. Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield.
- 2009. Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield.
- 2002. Liberal and Illiberal Nationalisms. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave.
- 1997. Postcommunist Presidents. Editor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 1991. Political culture and foreign policy in Latin America: case studies from the circum-Caribbean. With Roland Ebel and James Cochrane. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.