Memberships & Awards

• The Australian Sociological Association

• American Sociological Association

• International Sociological Association

• Fellow of Academy of the Social Sciences Australia

Research Fields

• Historical Sociology

• History of Ideas

• Language, Communication and Culture

• Cultural Theory

Research Interests

• Cultural theory, cultural sociology, ideas and technologies, modernities and modernisms

• Social theory, texts, thinkers and problems

• Historical sociology, including comparative, antipodean, Australia, New Zealand, WA, South Africa

• Cities

• Creative non-fiction