Peter Hedström#

Full CV and list of publications

Education

• Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Ph.D. 1987.
• Harvard University, Department of Sociology, M.A. 1983.
• Stockholm University, Fil.kand. (B.A.) 1978.

• Official Fellow and Professor, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 2003 –
• Distinguished Global Visiting Professor, NYU-AD, 2010 -
• Visiting Research Professor, Singapore Management University, 2009-2010
• Dean, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, 2008 – 2009.
• Chair, Sociology Group, Nuffield College, 2006 – 2008.
• Professor, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 1989 – 2003.
• Chairman, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 1990 – 1993.
• Member, Board of Directors, Metrika Consulting AB, 2007-.
• Chairman, Board of Directors, Engelska Skolan AB, 1993-1997.
• Member of the Social Science Faculty Board, Stockholm University, 1992 – 1999.
• Deputy Chairman, Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, 1993 – 1999, 2001–2002.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, 1987 – 1989.
• Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, Harvard University, 1986 – 1987.
• Research Associate, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, 1981–1987.
• Research Associate, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT, 1983 – 1986.
• Instructor, Harvard University, Department of Sociology, 1983.
• Research Fellow, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT, 1980.
• Research Assistant, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, 1978 – 1980.
• Chairman of the student union at Socialhögskolan, Stockholm University, 1978.
• Survey Director, Huddinge University Hospital, 1977.

• Author-meets-critics session on Dissecting the Social at the ISA World Congress, Gothenburg, 2010.
• 2009 Brettschneider Visitor, Cornell University.
• Elected Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 2008.
• Elected member of the Sociological Research Association, 2007.
• Member of the European Research Council’s Advanced Grant Evaluation Panel, 2007-.
• Secretary General of the International Institute of Sociology, 2005 –
• Research Associate of Groupe d'Etude des Méthodes de l'Analyse Sociologique à l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 2005 –
• Permanent Non-Resident Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for the Advanced Studies, 2004 –
• Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, April 2007.
• Recipient of the James S. Coleman Book Award from the American Sociological
• Association for Dissecting the Social: On the Principles of Analytical Sociology, 2006.
• President of the European Academy of Sociology, 2004 – 2008.
• Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology, 2000.
• Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, 1994, 2001– 2003.
• President of the Swedish Sociological Association, 1998 – 2000.
• Member of the Advisory Board to the Social Studies Faculty, Oxford University, 1999 – 2003.
• External member of Committee to Review Sociology at Oxford University, 1997 – 1998.
• Member of the international expert panel of the Norwegian Research Council’s program for labor market and working life research, 2001 – 2003.
• Member of the Scientific Board of the Swedish Crime Prevention Council, 1999 – 2001.
• Member of the Scientific Council of Statistics Sweden, 1992 – 1995.
• Member of the Research Committee on Sociology, Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, 1993 – 1995.