Beilharz is founding editor of the international journal of social theory Thesis Eleven published by Sage.
[1] From 2002 to 2014 he was the director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University.
After a short experience of teaching at high school he went to Monash University, where he completed a doctorate on Trotskyism in 1984.
He is a Faculty Associate in the Sociology Department at Yale, and a visiting professor at the Bauman Institute, Leeds University.
Beilharz has written or edited thirty books, including Labour's Utopias (1992), Postmodern Socialism (1994), Transforming Labor (1994), Imagining the Antipodes (1997) and Zygmunt Bauman – Dialectic of Modernity (2002) and 200 papers.