University Service

Service over the years at Lingnan – inter alia: 

•  Academic Dean of Social Sciences (ex-officio member of the University Administrative Planning Committee, Academic Staff Review Committee, Academic Quality Assurance Committee, Research and Postgraduate Studies Committee) 
  
• Head of Politics and Sociology 
• Head of Sociology and Social Policy
• Member of Senate
• Chair of the Discontinuation Appeal Panel
• Member of the Academic Quality Advisory Committee (AQAC)
• AQAC Representative to the Community College
• Member of the Research and Postgraduate Studies Panel (Social Sciences)
• Member of the Program Management Group
• Member of the Sub-Group on Staff Development Grants
• Member of Social Science Program and Curriculum Committee
• Member of General Studies Program and Curriculum Committee

Current Professional Service

• Hong Kong Research Grants Council Member, 2012- 
  
• Hong Kong Fulbright Advisory Committee Member, 2012- 
  
• Member of HKUSPACE-University of Hull Accreditation Panel (Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications), May 2014 
  
• President of the Research Committee of the History of Sociology, International Sociological Association, 2010 – July 2014
  

Journals; International Board Member (all current): 

1. Canadian Journal of Sociology 
   
2. Current Sociology (ISA Journal) 
   
3. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 
   
4. Journal of Classical Sociology 
   
5. Max Weber Studies 
   
6. Serendipities: Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences 
   
7. Society 
   
8. Sociological Theory (ASA Journal) 
   

 

Selected international lectures and honors

1. “Prestigious Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences” (the prize, awarded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, is modeled on the Guggenheim), January 2014-December 2015. 
   
2. Raymond Aron Fellow, Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences, Boston University, 2010 – 
   
3. Guest Speaker, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen, May 2013 
   
4. Guest Speaker, Ø stfold University College, Halden, May 2013
5. Guest Speaker, Descartes Center, University of Utrecht, February 2012. 
   
6. Guest Speaker, Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy, University of Western Sydney,November 2010. 
   
7. Plenary Speaker, Conference on Multiculturalism and Global Community, National Archive of Iran, Tehran, July 2010. 
   
8. Author-Meets-Critics session at the International Sociological Association World Congress, Gothenburg, July 2010. 
   
9. Guest Professor, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, June 2010. 
   
10. Visiting Professor in Political Thought, IMT Institute of Advanced Studies, Lucca, May 2005/May 2006/May 2009/June 2010 
    
11. Visiting Professor in Political Science, American University of Afghanistan, Kabul, June/July 2008 
    
12. Address to the American University of Beirut, April 2008 
    
13. Visiting Professor of Political Science, Peking University, March 2005 
    
14. Keynote Speaker at the Max Weber Today symposium, University of British Columbia, November 4 2004 
    
15. The Baehr-Wells edition of Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the ‘spirit’ of Capitalism, is nominated for the Wolff Translation Prize. 
    
16. Visiting Professor of Political Science, National University of Taiwan/Academic Sinica, Taipei, October 2004 
    
17. Visiting Professor of Political Sociology, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociale (LUISS), Rome, January 2004 
    
18. Hannah Arendt Memorial Lecture, University of Bremen, May 22, 2003 
    
19. Baehr’s book, Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World, is a “Choice” Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, 1998 (American Librarians’ Association award).