Peter Beilharz is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is currently Professor of Critical Theory at Sichuan University. He has been affiliated with the Yale Center; Harvard; Leeds; Curtin; and Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study. He has published more than thirty books, many on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and on art historian Bernard Smith; most recently Circling Marx, 2000, The Work of History, with Sian Supski, 2022, The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman, with Janet Wolff, 2023, and Chain’s Towards the Blues, 2023, but he rates his most important work as the project of Thesis Eleven and the textbook with Trevor Hogan, Sociology–Place, Time and Division, 2007, this latter supported by Jeff Alexander in his Australian sojourn of 2004.
