Jens Beckert#
| Membership Number: | 5790 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpifg.de/people/jb1/index_en.asp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
- 2020 Member of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne, Cologne
- 2005 - present Member of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, Cologne
- 2003 - 2005 Professor of Sociology (C 4), Georg-August-Universität Göttingne, Göttingen
- 2002 - 2003 Associate Professor of Sociology, International University Bremen, Bremen
- 2001 - 2002 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow, Harvard University, Center for European Studies, Cambridge MA.
- 1999 - 2001 Research Fellow (Habilitationsstipendiat) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin
- 1993 - 1999 Junior Faculty Member (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Freie Universität Berlin, John F. Kennedy Institute. Berlin
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University, Department of Sociology, Princeton, N.J
- 1991 - 1993 Research Assistant, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Sociology • Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative sociology
- Sociological theory
- Economic sociology
- Sociology of law
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Since 2010 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2005 Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities-donated by the Commerzbank Foundation
- 2000 - 2005 Member of the „Junge Akademie“ at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Oct.07 - Jan.08 Fernand Braudel Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence/Italy
- 2001 - 2002 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
- Jan. - Mar. 2000 German American Center for Visiting Scholars, Washington
- 1994 - 1995 Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler-Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- 1990 - 1991 University Fellowship - New School for Social Research
- 1989 - 1990 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship
- 1987 - 1993 Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Scholarship Foundation)
