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Place of Birth: Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
About Peter Beilharz
- Peter Beilharz (born 13 November 1953, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian sociologist.
- He is currently Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
- Previously he was Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
- Beilharz is also a co-founder and editor of the international journal of social theory Thesis Eleven published by Sage.From 2002-14 he was the director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University.
- He is best known for his work in social theory and socialism, for his intellectual biography of the Australian art historian, Bernard Smith, and his several books on the eminent Polish sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman.
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