Ray Taras

Professor
Office: 306 Norman Mayer
Phone: (504) 862-8302
Email: taras@tulane.edu
Office hours:
Spring Semester 2008
Office hours: Tuesdays 11-1, other days by appointment.

Courses:
Spring Semester 2008
Spring courses: Phobias and Foreign Policies POLI-302 TR 8-9:15

Research:
International relations, ethnosectarian conflict, nationalism and
transnationalism, Russian and East European politics.

Recent publications include:

Ray Taras, Europe's rising Islamophobia: the impact on foreign policy
  Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2009

Ray Taras, Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia
  Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008

Ray Taras and Rajat Ganguly, Understanding ethnic conflict: the international dimension
  3rd edn Update. New York: Longman, 2008

Ray Taras, Ideology in a socialist state: Poland 1956-83
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, reprinted 2008

Vita: click here. Links: For reviews of works of fiction go to: http://americareads.blogspot.com/2007/12/review-per- pettersons-out-stealing.html Review of the 2008 Sundance Festival: http://americareads.blogspot.com/2008/01/summarizing- sundance-08.html