John A. Hall (born 1949) is the James McGill Emeritus Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author or editor of over 30 books.

Education and Previous Posts

Hall graduated from Oxford University in 1970. He received his MA from the Pennsylvania State University in 1972 and has completed his PhD at the London School of Economics in 1976. He has held previous posts at Southampton University, the London School of Economics and Harvard University. He was an Invited Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala, Sweden, during the 1999-2000 academic year, Visiting Research Professor (1999-2002) at Queen's University in Belfast, and the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford in 2003. He has been an Honorary Professor of Sociology and Politics at the University of Copenhagen since 2001. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts 2003-2005.

Honours

In 2012, Hall was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The RSC also presented him with the Innis-Gérin Medal in 2016. An edited volume leveraging his theories of nationalism, civility, power, and states was published in 2019 (States and Nations, Power and Civility: Hallsian Perspectives, edited by Francesco Duina. Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

Selected publications