Raymond Taras

Professor - Political Science

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Associated Faculty
Region
  • North America
  • South America
Raymond Taras

Courses

Politics and Literature, Phobias and Foreign Policy, Politics and Nationalism, World Politics & Cinema

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 20

Research

International Migration in South America; Nationalism; Postnationalism; Identity Politics; Casta Paintings 

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Political Studies, 1982
  • M.Phil., University of Essex, Comparative Politics, 1974
  • B.A., Université de Montreal, Political Science, 1967

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Fulbright Distinguished Chair, Australian National University, Canberra, 2017-2018
  • Visiting Scholar, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2022
  • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of Sussex, 2015-16
  • Fulbright Distinguished Chair in European Studies, University of Warsaw, 2013-2014
  • Professor, Tulane University, 1996-
  • Visiting Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark, 1999
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 1988-1996
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 1984-1988

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
  • Spanish
  • Russian

Overseas Experience

  • Mexico
  • Peru
  • Chile
  • Costa Rica
  • Guatemala
  • Puerto Rico

Related Experience

  • Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2010
  • Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, 2006, 2009
  • Consultant, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, 1997-1999
  • Referee, American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Research Council, National Science Foundation
  • National Research Council, National Science Foundation

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Exploring Russia's Exceptionalism in International Politics (ed). London: Routledge, 2024.
  • 2024."Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the media: when prejudice runs amok,” Journal of Media and Religion Studies, 7, no. 1 , pp. 1-13.
  • 2023. “Exhuming Samuel Huntington’s theorems: civilizational clashes, world order, and the impact on Europe,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 15, no. 2,, pp. 3-17.
  • 2023. “Revisiting the clash of civilizations’ debate: what has changed 30 years later?” in Yahya R. Kamalipour and John Pavlik (eds.), Communicating global crises: media, war, climate, and politics. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 34-52.
  • 2023. Thucydides' Meditations on Fear: Contemporary Case Studies. London: Anthem Press, 2023.
  • 2021. “Race and religion,” in Tanya Golash-Boza (ed.), A cultural history of race in the modern and genomic age - 1920 –present, vol. 6, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 51-69.
  • 2018. Nationhood, migration and global politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming. Includes case study ‘€œPeru: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.