Dr. Ibrahim Abraham
Senior Lecturer, Sociology
Campus
Biography
Ibrahim Abraham joined Federation University in 2023 after four years as the Hans Mol Research Fellow in Religion and the Social Sciences at the Australian National University (2018–2022) where he also convened the Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry. He remains affiliated with the ANU as an honorary senior lecturer.
Prior to joining the ANU, Ibrahim was a research fellow at the University of Helsinki (2013–2018) carrying out research on two Academy of Finland–funded projects in South Africa. From 2012 to 2013 he was a research associate at La Trobe University’s Centre for Dialogue, working with multicultural communities in Melbourne. Ibrahim received his PhD in sociology from the University of Bristol in 2012.
Ibrahim is the author of two books and over forty journal articles and book chapters, and in 2024 was included on the Elsevier/Stanford global list of the top 2% of researchers, by citation, in his discipline.
Ibrahim is currently enjoying teaching a range of sociology units at Federation, and working on his third book, a literary sociology of the Lebanese diaspora.
Fields of research
- Religion, society and culture
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of culture
More about Ibrahim
Future Regions Research Centre
- Publications
You have your Gibran and I have my Gibran: representations of Kahlil Gibran, a century after The Prophet
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/20581831.2025.2552630