Peter Flora#
| Membership Number: | 1978 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1982-2009 Professor of sociology at the University of Mannheim
- 1989-1993 Founding director of Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
- 1979-1982 Professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy)
- 1976-1979 Professor of sociology the University of Cologne , where he taught and conducted research until 1979
Fields of Scholarship
- Macro-sociology
- Historical sociology
- Comparative historical sociology
Honours and Awards
- 1979-1982 Editor of the Journal of Sociology
- 1987-1993 Chairman of the Committee on Political Sociology of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and International Sociological Association (ISA)
- 1999 Member of the Academia Europaea
