STATUS AND EDUCATION

Professor Emeritus of Sociology 

Address: 6636 Razor Point Rd, Pender Island, BC, Canada VON 2M1. Phone: 250-629-6229; Vancouver phone: 604-228-8369.

Currently teaching at Graduate Liberal Studies. Born in Germany and educated at Frankfurt School of Critical Theory with Th.W. Adorno and J. Habermas as PhD (1965) mentors. Habilitation (1972, Giessen).

SPECIALIZATION

Comparative Ethno-nationalism, Immigration, Multiculturalism. Democratic Governance. Human Rights and Security. Peacemaking. Transitional Justice and Politics of Memory, particularly Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. Country Expertise: Southern Africa, Israel/Palestine, Canada and Germany.     

HONOURS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS

• 2008 Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy
• 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award of Canadian Sociological  Association (CSA)
• 1998 Konrad Adenauer Prize of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2000 Fellow of Royal Society of Canada
• Past President of International Sociological Association’s RC 05
• Canada Council Leave Fellowship 1982
• SARP Fellowship at Yale University 1977-78
• DAAD Fellowship 1968
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley 1966

VISITING APPOINTMENTS

University of Cape Town annually since 1986, FU Berlin 1999, University of Siegen 1978 and 1982, Yale University 1977-78, American University in Cairo 1972-74, University of Marburg 1972, University of Natal 1967.

BOOKS

Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians, with K. Moodley, (Temple University and Wits University Press, 2006)

Peacemaking in Divided Societies, (Pretoria: HSRC, 2002)

Comrades in Business:  Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa, with F. van Zyl Slabbert and K. Moodley, (Tafelberg and International Books, 1998)

The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa, with K. Moodley, (University of California Press, 1993)

• Democratizing Southern Africa: Challenges for Canadian Policy, with K. Moodley, (Ottawa: Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security, 1992)
  
  

  South Africa Without Apartheid. Dismantling Racial Domination, with K. Moodley, (University of California Press and Suhrkamp, 1986)

• South Africa: The Limits of Reform Politics, editor, (E.J. Brill, 1983)
• Ethnic Power Mobilized, with H. Giliomme, (Yale University Press, 1979)
• Modernizing Racial Domination. The Dynamics of South African Politics, (University of California Press, 1971)
• South Africa: Sociological Perspectives, editor, (Oxford University Press, 1971)
• Suedafrika. Soziologie einer Rassengesellschaft, (Suhrkamp, 1969)
• Studentenschaft und Hochschule, (Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1965)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Council Member of Vancouver Institute;  Board Member of ISA RC05 and various journals.  Annually about a dozen invited lectures internationally. Occasional op-eds. Ranked among the top 40 BC intellectuals by Vancouver Sun, August 25, 2000, A13. Member of College of Evaluators for Canada Research Chairs .