Ivar Oxaal taught at the University of California, Davis, The University of Guyana, and was a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation and Hunter College. He is a retired member of the staffs of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Department of European Studies at the University of Hull. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Race and Revolutionary Consciousness; Jews, Anti-Semitism and Culture in Vienna; and The Jews of Pre-1914 Vienna.