Jan Pakulski FASSA (born 1950 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish-born Australian sociologist.
He has held the title of emeritus professor since 2014[1] and was a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2006+),[2] at St Antony's College, Oxford, a visiting professor at Nanyang University, Singapore, and an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University.
[4] His book The Death Of Class[5] (co-written with Professor Malcolm Waters) has been used as an undergraduate textbook.
He was awarded the Golden of Cross of Merit from the Polish Republic (1991)[8] for his activism for Polish-Australian relations, especially with respect to his work for the POLCUL Foundation[9] for which he has served as director since 1980.
He was President of the Australian Institute of Polish Affairs (AIPA) 2001–05, and 2009–13, and currently holds a position of Vice-President.