Riaz Hassan AM, FASSA

ARC Australian Professorial Fellow and Emeritus Professor, Flinders University, South Australia
Riaz Hassan

Curriculum Vitae

Education

BA (Pb), MA (Dacca), PhD (Ohio State)

Current & Academic Appointments

Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Professorial Fellow

Emeritus Professor
Department of Sociology,
Flinders University
Adelaide, South Australia

1988 – 2004
Professor of Sociology
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
Head of Department 1988 – 91; 1992 – 1995
2007 (Michaelmas Term)
Academic Visitor
Nuffield College,
University of Oxford
2003, 2006 Jan-May
Visiting Professor
Yale University, USA
2005 January-May
Visiting Senior Fellow
Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
1994, 1997 - 2001
Visiting Professor
Department of Sociology
University of California
Los Angeles, USA
1977 – 1988
Senior Lecturer / Reader in Sociology
School of Social Sciences,
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
1984 – 1985
Visiting Professor
School of Modern Asian Studies
Griffith University
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and
Department of Sociology
Queensland and Gadjah Mada University
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1968 – 1977
Lecturer to Senior Lecturer
Department of Sociology
University of Singapore, Singapore
1966 – 1968
Instructor to Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio, USA
1964 – 1966
Teaching Assistant
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, USA

Other Academic Appointments

1984-85
Visiting Research Fellow
Population Studies Center
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
1983 January
Visiting Scholar
Department of Sociology
University of Hawaii
Hawaii, USA
1982 Oct-Dec, 1983 Feb
Visiting Scholar
Department of Sociology
Ball State University
Indiana, USA
1983 March
Visiting Scholar
Harvard University
Cambridge, USA

Honours

Member of the Order of Australia 2006

Academic Honours

1997 Durkheim Oration, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Adelaide
1996 Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
1988 Feb-Apr Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Population Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan
1970 Oct-Nov International Research Fellow, Japan Centre for Area Development Research, Tokyo, Japan
1964 Summer University of Chicago Fellowship, USA
1963-1965 Fulbright Scholar
1959-1961 Asia Foundation Scholar