Biosketch

Ghassan Hage is a Lebanese-born Australian anthropologist renowned for his extensive work on racism, nationalism, and multiculturalism, particularly within Australian society. Born in Baabda in 1957, he moved to Sydney in 1976 at the age of 19. Hage completed his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at Macquarie University in 1981, followed by a Diplôme de 3ème Cycle at the Institut Européen des Hautes Études Internationales, Nice in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Macquarie University in 1989. He has held positions at the University of Western Sydney (1989-1993), the University of Sydney, (1994-2008) and the University of Melbourne since 2009, where he serves as the Future Generation Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory. His notable publications include “Alter-Politics”, “Is Racism an Environmental Threat?”, “The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World”, “The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism” and “Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being”. In recognition of his contributions, Hage is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the British Academy of the Social Sciences. He has held many visiting professorships around the world including at the Ecoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, Harvard, and the Max Planck Institute of Anthropology, and is an Adjunct Professor in the Arts and Humanities Institute at Maynooth University, Ireland.