Person

Turner, Bryan S.

1945

Soziologe

Visiting Prof. of Sociology, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College ; Prof. of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National Univ. of Singapore; Prof. of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the Univ. of Cambridge (1998–2005); professorships at Flinders Univ. and Deakin Univ. in Australia, and the Univ. of Essex and Utrecht in Europe; adjunct Prof. at Murdock Univ., Western Australia

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Religion Politics and Society at the Australian Catholic University, Honorary Professor and Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at Potsdam University, Germany, and Emeritus Professor at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York City. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Classical Sociology. He edited the Blackwell Wiley Encyclopedia for Social Theory (2018). He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Cambridge University in 2009 and received the Max Planck Award in social science in 2015.