Prof. Peter Baehr - Chair Professor of Social Theory

Peter Baehr

Peter introducing Prof. Liah Greenfeld

Chair Professor of Social Theory, Lingnan University

Ph.D. University of Leicester, UK. (1986)
Certificate of Education, Elizabeth Gaskell College of Education, University of Manchester, UK. (1976)
BA (Hons) Soc. Sci., University of Leicester, UK. (1975)

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Peter Baehr is Chair Professor of Social Theory at Lingnan University. Before coming to Hong Kong in 2000, he worked at universities in Canada and Britain. He teaches and writes mainly in the areas of social/ political thought, political culture, and mass emergency. Peter Baehr’s work has been translated into Chinese, Danish, Farsi, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese. Aside from his position at Lingnan University, Baehr is Raymond Aron Fellow at Boston University, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. He is President of the History of Sociology Research Committee of the International Sociological Association, and sits as an international editor on eight journals. Baehr’s books are published by Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, Transaction, Penguin and Stanford University Press.