ProfessorAnita Harris

Deakin Distinguished Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 924 45476 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Anita Harris is a Distinguished Professor in the Sociology Program, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is a youth sociologist specialising in citizenship, mobilities and new forms of participation in a globalised world. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Her current ARC projects include a 10 year longitudinal study of transnational mobility and youth transitions (https://www.ymapproject.org/); and a project on global digital citizenship amongst diasporic youth (https://youthdigitalcitizenship.com/). She is a former ARC Future Fellow, investigating everyday multiculturalism amongst young people in diverse neighbourhoods. She has recently completed a VicHealth-funded project on digital participation amongst migrant background youth. She is the Deakin leader of the 'Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing in a Digital Age' research and program stream of the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.

Research Groups
Deakin leader of the 'Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing in a Digital Age' research and program stream in the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive
Societies

member, Sociology and Social Change Collective, Deakin; International Sociological Association ('Sociology of Youth', 'Sociology of Migration', & 'Racism, Nationalism & Ethnic Relations' committees); Australian Sociological Association ('Youth', 'Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism' & 'Indigenous Sociology' thematic groups); Cultural Studies Association; Asia Pacific Sociological Association

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Deakin Distinguished Professor
    Deakin University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
    University of Melbourne

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Sociology
  • Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
  • Sociology of the life course
  • Social change

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Arts and Education

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Humanities and Social Sciences

SPECIALIST RESEARCH GROUP

  • Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation