Robert van Krieken
Robert van Krieken is an Australian sociologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. He has also worked as Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin (2009-2011). He is the author of "Children and the State", "Norbert Elias", "Celebrity Society", and co-author of the sociology textbook "Sociology", originally titled "Sociology: Themes and Perspectives" (Australian edition), and "Celebrity and the Law" (with Patricia Loughlan and Barbara McDonald). He has served in a variety of offices in the International Sociological Association, currently a Board Member of Working Group 02 Historical and Comparative Sociology. In 2006-2010  he was a member of the Executive Committee, and at the XVII World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg he was elected Vice-President (Finance and Membership) for 2010-2014. He is also a member of The Australian Sociological Association. His fields of research include the sociology of childhood, processes of civilization and decivilization, the formation of the self, sociological theory, especially that of Norbert Elias, celebrity, law and society, and cultural genocide. Biography. Robert Michael van Krieken (1955) was born of Dutch parents in Hong Kong, where he attended primary school. From secondary school onwards he has lived in Sydney , Australia. He studied sociology as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New South Wales, where he also did his PhD, which he completed in 1977. He started working at the University of Sydney in 1979, teaching Social Theory in the Department of Social Work. In the 1990s he played a central role in the development of a sociology programme at the University of Sydney, which since 2001 it has been the core of a distinct Department of Sociology & Social Policy. He went on to complete a Law degree at the University of Sydney, gaining his  LLB in 2003, which formed the foundation for the development of a programme in socio-legal studies, now also part of the Department of Sociology & Social Policy. He is currently on the editorial board of "Contemporary Sociology", and he has also served on the editorial boards of "Law & Social Inquiry" and "Childhood". References. Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:Australian sociologists Category:University of Sydney faculty Category:University of New South Wales alumni