Professor Zlatko Skrbis

Professor Zlatko Skrbis

Position:

Professor of Sociology
Zlatko Skrbis is away. He is currently Dean, UQ Graduate School

Contact Details:

Room 105, Cumbrae-Stewart Building (72)
Telephone: (07) 3365 3477 Facsimile: (07) 3365 8383
Email: z.skrbis@gradschool.uq.edu.au

Qualifications:

Hons (Philosophy), University of Ljubljana
Hons (Sociology of Culture), University of Ljubljana
PhD (Sociology), Flinders University

Professional activities:

Vice President - Research Committee on Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations, International Sociological Association
Member - The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), London
Member - Slovene Sociological Association, Ljubljana
Member - American Sociological Association
Member of Editorial Advisory Board - Journal of Intercultural Studies
Associate Advisory Editor - Druzboslovne Razprave
Immediate Past Co-convenor, TASA Thematic Group on Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism

Background:

Dean of UQ Graduate School, The University of Queensland, 2009 - Present
Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, 2007 - 2009
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, 2005 - 2007
Lecturer, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, 2001 - 2004
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, QUT, 1996 - 2000
Associate Lecturer, School of Social Science, QUT, 1995 - 1996

Research interests:

• Immigration and Culture
• Nationalism and Diaspora Studies
• Globalisation
• Social Pathways, Identity Politics
• Cosmopolitanism

Representative Grants:

Skrbis Z., Western, M., Tranter, B., Hogan, D. (2005-2007), ARC Discovery (DP0557667) Social Futures, Orientations and Identities of Young People in Queensland, $150,000

Skrbis, Z. and Western, M. (2008-2011), ARC Discovery (DP0878781) Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland: Waves 2 and 3 of Longitudinal Study, $430,000

Cheshire, L., Lawrence, G. and Skrbis, Z., Woods, M.J. (2009-11), ARC Discovery (DP0984753) Globally Engaged: Responses to Neoliberal Globalization among Family Farmers in Australia, $180,000

Mansouri, F., Skrbis, Z., Francis, S. and Guerra, C. (2009-12), ARC Linkage (LP0989182). Partner organisations: The Australian Red Cross and The Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues. Social Networks, Belonging and Active Citizenship among Migrant Youth in Australia, $317,000

Link to Social Futures, Orientations and Identities of Young People in Queensland (ARC - DP557667) Our Lives 

Representative publications:

Tranter, B. and Skrbis, Z. (2009) “Trust and Confidence: A Study of Young Queenslanders.” Australian Journal of Political Science: 659-678.

Kendall, G., Woodward, I. and Skrbis, Z. (2009) The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism. Palgrave, London.

Calcutt, L., Woodward, I. and Skrbis, Z. (2009) "Conceptualising Otherness: An Exploration of the Cosmopolitan Schema," Journal of Sociology, 45(2):169-185.

Barr, M. D. and Skrbis, Z. (2008) Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project. NIAS Press, Copenhagen.

Kendall, G., Skrbis, Z. and Woodward, I. (2008) "Cosmopolitanism, the Nation-State and Imaginative Realism." Journal of Sociology, 44 (4): 401-417.

Woodward, I., Skrbis, Z. and Bean, C. (2008) "Attitudes toward Globalization and Cosmopolitanism: Cultural Diversity, Personal Consumption and the National Economy." British Journal of Sociology, 59(2), pp. 207 – 226.

Skrbis, Z. (2008) "Transnational Families: Theorising Migration, Emotions, and Belonging." Journal of Intercultural Studies 29(3): 231-246.

Skrbis, Z. and Woodward, I. (2007) "The Ambivalence of Ordinary Cosmopolitanism: Investigating the Limits of Cosmopolitan Openness." The Sociological Review 55 (4), pp. 730-747.

Svasek, M. and Skrbis, Z. (2007) "Passions and Powers: Emotions and Globalisation."  Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 14 (3), pp. 367 – 383.

Ramirez, M., Skrbis, Z. and Emmison, M. (2007) "Transnational Family Reunions as Lived Experience: Narrating a El Salvadoran Ethnography." Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power,14 (3), pp. 411-431.

Skrbis, Z., Baldassar, L. and Poynting, S. (2007) "Introduction - Negotiating Belonging: Migration and Generations." Journal of Intercultural Studies 28 (5), pp. 261 - 269.

Skrbis, Z. (2007) "From Migrants to Pilgrim Tourists: Diasporic Imagining and Visits to Medjugorje." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 33 (2), pp. 313 - 329.

Skrbis, Z. (2007) "Mobilised Croatian Diaspora: Its Role in Homeland Politics and War." In in Smith, H. and Stares, P. (eds) Diasporas in Conflict: Peacemakers or Peace Wreckers? United Nations University Press, New York, pp. 218-237.

O'Flaherty, M., Skrbis, Z. and Tranter, B. (2007) "Home Visits: Transnationalism Among Australian Immigrants." Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (5), pp. 817 - 844.

Skrbis, Z. (2007) "Ethnicity and Belonging", in Germov, J. and Poole, M. (eds) Public Sociology: An Introduction to Australian Society, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, pp. 259 - 278.

Skrbis, Z. (2006) "Australians in Guantanamo Bay: Gradations of Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging", in Yuval-Davis, N. et al. (eds) The Situated Politics of Belonging, Sage, London, pp. 176 - 190.

Skrbis, Z. (2006) "The First Europeans' Fantasy of Slovenian Venetologists: Emotions and Nationalist Imaginings", in Svasek, M. (ed) Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions, Berghahn, Oxford and New York, pp. 138 - 158.

Skrbis, Z. (2005) "The Idea of the 'Chosen People' and the Apparitions of the Virgin Mary: The Case of Medjugorje." Nations and Nationalism 11 (3), pp. 443 - 461.

Skrbis, Z. Kendall G and Woodward, I. (2004) "Locating Cosmopolitanism: Between Humanist Ideal and Grounded Social Category." Theory, Culture and Society, 21 (6), pp. 115 - 136.

Skrbis, Z. and Germov, J. (2004) "Most Influential Books in Australian Sociology (1963-2003)." Journal of Sociology, 40(2): pp. 282 - 303.
 

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