Jan Pakulski

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Jan Pakulski (born 1950 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Australian sociologist.

He received a master's degree in sociology in 1973 at the University of Warsaw, from 1975 he has been living in Australia where he completed a PhD at the Australian National University in 1980.

Pakulski taught at the University of Tasmania. He was named professor of sociology in 1998, served as head of the School of Sociology and Social Work from 1998 to 2001, and was executive dean of arts between 2001 and 2008. He has held the title of emeritus professor since 2014. He is fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2006+); fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford; visiting professor at Nanyang University, Singapore; and affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University. He on the editorial board of the ''Polish Sociological Review''. From 2015 he is also Professor in Collegium Civitas, Warsaw.

His book ''The Death Of Class'' (co-written with professor Malcolm Waters) has been used as an undergraduate text book.

His most recent publication, a chapter titled The Development Of Elite Theory in the ''Palgrave Handbook Of Elites'' is targeted at policy-makers and members of parliament.