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German-Canadian university professor and author

Heribert Adam FRSC Born 1936 (1936) Germany Spouse Kogila Moodley Academic background Education Frankfurt School Thesis (1965) Doctoral advisor Theodor W. Adorno Academic work Discipline Sociology Sub-discipline Political sociology Institutions Simon Fraser University Main interests Ethnonationalism, human rights

**Heribert Adam** [FRSC](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Canada) (born 1936) is a [German-Canadian](/source/German-Canadian) university professor and author. Adam is professor emeritus of [political sociology](/source/Political_sociology) at [Simon Fraser University](/source/Simon_Fraser_University), specializing in [human rights](/source/Human_rights), comparative [racisms](/source/Racism), peace studies, Southern Africa, and [ethnic conflict](/source/Ethnic_conflict).[1] Originally from [Frankfurt](/source/Frankfurt), Germany, he is a former president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations.[2]

Adam is noted for his work on [ethnonationalism](/source/Ethnonationalism), which aims at understanding intergroup conflict and fostering a human rights culture that minimizes [bigotry](/source/Bigotry) and communal strife.

Adam was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Research Award in 1998 for a project on how democracies deal with crimes they have committed in the past. He was elected a fellow of the [Royal Society of Canada](/source/Royal_Society_of_Canada) in 2000. The Society wrote of his work: "Mainly drawing upon [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany) and [Apartheid South Africa](/source/History_of_South_Africa_in_the_apartheid_era)—where he has been involved in facilitating the 'negotiated [revolution](/source/Revolution)'—his nuanced analysis of [anti-Semitism](/source/Anti-Semitism), [colonial racism](/source/Colonialism), and [Canadian](/source/Canada) treatment of [minorities](/source/Minorities) goes beyond the conventional preaching of [tolerance](/source/Toleration). [Nelson Mandela](/source/Nelson_Mandela) in prison praised his work."[3]

Adams was born in Germany.[4] He is married to [Kogila Moodley](/source/Kogila_Moodley), Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Education at the [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia), who is co-author of his book *Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israeli and Palestinians* and other works.

## Selected publications

- with Moodley, Kogila. *Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians*. PA: Temple University Press, 2005.

- with van Zyl Slabbert, F & Moodley, Kogila. *Comrades in Business. Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa*. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1997. Third edition 1999. Also published by: International Books, Utrecht, 1998.

- with Moodley, Kogila. *The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Published in South Africa as *The Negotiated Revolution: Society and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa*, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 1993.

- with Moodley, Kogila. *South Africa Without Apartheid. Dismantling Racial Domination*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. Expanded German edition: Edition Suhrkamp. NF 369, 1987. Second edition 1988.

- with Giliomee, H. *Ethnic Power Mobilized*. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Afrikaans edition, 1981.

- *Modernizing Racial Domination. The Dynamics of South African Politics*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Third edition, 1976.

- "Anti-Semitism and Anti-Black Racism: Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa". [*Telos*](http://www.telospress.com) 108 (Summer 1996). New York: Telos Press.

## See also

- [Biography portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Biography)

- [List of German Canadians](/source/List_of_German_Canadians)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Heribert Adam - Sociology & Anthropology - Simon Fraser University"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150904062442/http://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html). *www.sfu.ca*. Archived from [the original](https://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html) on 2015-09-04.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bio_2-0)** ["Heribert Adam"](http://www.socanth.sfu.ca/people/heribert_adam) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20131112014348/http://www.socanth.sfu.ca/people/heribert_adam) 2013-11-12 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), [Simon Fraser University](/source/Simon_Fraser_University).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** *Simon Fraser University News*, July 21, 2000.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Heribert Adam - Sociology & Anthropology - Simon Fraser University"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150904062442/http://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html). *www.sfu.ca*. Archived from [the original](https://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/People/faculty/heribert-adam.html) on 2015-09-04.

## Further reading

- [Pogrund, Benjamin](/source/Benjamin_Pogrund). ["Why depict Israel as a chamber of horrors like no other in the world?"](https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,,1704895,00.html), *The Guardian*, February 8, 2006.

- Lazarus, Baila. ["Lessons from South Africa"](https://web.archive.org/web/20070928162010/http://www.jewishindependent.ca/Archives/Sept05/archives05Sept30-01.html), *Jewish Independent*, September 30, 2005.

## External links

- [Heribert Adam](https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D104527714) in the [German National Library](/source/German_National_Library) catalogue

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