Biographical information
since 2020 |
Full Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
since 2016 |
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) |
2015 |
Awarded the Opus magnum grant of the Volkswagen Foundation (duration 2015- 2017) |
since 2015 |
Member of the Council of the German Sociological Association (DGS) |
since 2015 |
Member of the advisory board of the sociological internet portal 'Soziopolis' |
2015 |
Member of the board of trustees for the Theodor W. Adorno Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main |
2014 |
Offer of a full professorship (W 3) for Sociological Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Technical University of Dresden (rejected) |
2014 |
Visiting professor at the University of Witten/Herdecke |
2014 |
Award for the book "The Invention of Creativity" in the program "International Humanities" of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels) |
since 2012 |
Visiting Professor at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) |
2012 |
Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), School of Language and Literature |
since 2011 |
Member of the advisory board 'Wissenschaft und Zeitgeschehen' of the Goethe-Institut |
2010 |
Offer of a full professorship for Cultural Sociology (W 3) at the University of Mainz and the award of a Gutenberg Research Fellowship (2011 declined) |
2010-2020 |
Full Professor for Comparative Cultural Sociology at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) |
2009-2010 |
Fellow at the AKH research community for the study of the ancient world (Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolleg) at the University of Heidelberg |
2009 |
Visiting Professor at the Graduate School 'History and Sociology' at Bielefeld University |
2009 |
Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies (Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg) at the University of Konstanz |
2009 |
Principal Investigator at the Collaborative Research Center 485 and the Cluster of Excellence 16 at the University of Konstanz |
2007 |
Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
since 2006 |
Member of the scientific advisory board of the 'Zeitschrift für Soziologie'; member of the board of the section 'Sociological Theory' of the DGS |
2006 |
'Significantly involved scientist' in the Cluster of Excellence 16 'Cultural Foundations of Integration' at the University of Konstanz |
2006-2010 |
Full Professor of General Sociology and Cultural Sociology at the University of Konstanz |
2005 |
Habilitation at the University of Hamburg |
2005-2006 |
Visiting Professor, substituting for the chair of sociological theory at the University of Konstanz |
2003-2004 |
Visiting Professor, substituting for the chair of cultural sociology at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) |
2001-2005 |
Research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Hamburg |
2000 |
Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics |
2000 |
Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; DAAD scholarship |
1999-2001 |
Post-Doc at the Free University Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Research Training Group "Comparison of Societies in Historical, Sociological and Ethnological Perspectives"); DFG post-doctoral fellowship |
1999 |
Doctorate as Dr. phil. |
1996-1999 |
Research assistant at the Institute for Sociology, University of Hamburg |
1995 |
Diploma in Political Science/Sociology at the University of Hamburg |
1994 |
Master of Philosophy in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge (GB) |
1989-1995 |
Studied sociology, political science, and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Hamburg and Cambridge; scholarship of the Studienstiftung |
1970 |
born in Witten |