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Education, Work, and Life Chances |
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Research Unit: Skill Formation and Labor Markets |
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Dr. Justin J.W. Powell |
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[Photo: David Ausserhofer]
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Telephone: +49 30 25491-173
Fax: +49 30 25491-180
Email: powell@wzb.eu
Senior Researcher
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Curriculum Vitae |
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March – Sept. 2010 |
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T.H. Marshall Fellow, London School of
Economics and Political Science |
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April – June 2009 |
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DAAD Research Fellow, American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), The Johns Hopkins
University, Washington, DC |
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since 2007 |
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Senior Researcher in the Research Unit
"Skill Formation and Labor Markets", WZB |
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2005
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Sociologist. Institute of Sociology,
Georgia Augusta University of Göttingen. |
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2000
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Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. |
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2004 |
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Ph.D. in Sociology. Free University
Berlin. Dissertation: Barriers to Inclusion: The
Institutionalization of Special Education
in Germany and the United
States. |
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1998
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Studied Sociology and Political
Science. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Humboldt
University of Berlin
(M.A. in Transatlantic Studies). Thesis: Government Funding of
Social Science Research: Comparing the German Research Foundation
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1993
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Coordinator of German-American
Academic Programs, Social Science Research Council, New York. |
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1988
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B.A. in Sociology & Anthropology,
Public Policy, German Studies. Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. |
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1991 |
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Studied Sociology, Art History, and
Translation. Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg. |
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Research
Interests
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- Sociology of Education
- Social Inequality
- Disability Studies
- Comparative and Historical Sociology
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Publications (selected)
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2010 |
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Analyzing the Nexus of Higher Education and Vocational Training in
Europe: A Comparative-Institutional Framework. In: Studies in Higher
Education 35(6): 705-721 (together with Heike Solga)
Change in
Disability Classification: Redrawing Categorical Boundaries in
Special Education in the United States and Germany, 1920–2005.
In: Comparative Sociology 9 (2): 241–267 |
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2009 |
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To
Segregate or to Separate? The Institutionalization of Special
Education in the United States and Germany. Comparative
Education Review 53(2): 161-187
(with Heike Solga, Peter A. Berger, Eds.) Soziale Ungleichheit.
Klassische Texte zur Sozialstrukturanalyse. Frankfurt on the Main:
Campus Verlag
Von schulischer Exklusion zur Inklusion? Eine
neoinstitutionalistische Analyse sonderpädagogischer Fördersysteme
in Deutschland und den USA. In: Koch, S. & M. Schemmann (Eds.):
Neoinstitutionalismus in der Erziehungswissenschaft. Grundlegende
Texte und empirische Studien. Wiesbaden: VS, 213-232 |
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2008 |
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(with Kai Felkendorff, Judith
Hollenweger).
Disability in the German, Swiss, and Austrian Higher
Education Systems. In: Gabel, S. & S. Danforth (Eds.): Disability
and the Politics of Education: An International Reader. New York:
Peter Lang, 517-540
Review of: Poore,
Carol. Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. In: Disability Studies
Quarterly 28(4) |
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2007 |
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Behinderung in der Schule, behindert
durch Schule? Wie „schulische Behinderung” institutionalisiert wurde.
[How was “student disability” institutionalized?]. In: Waldschmidt,
A. & W. Schneider (Eds.): Disability Studies, Kultursoziologie und
Soziologie der Behinderung. Bielefeld: Transcript, 321-343
(with Liat Ben-Moshe).
Sign of our Times: Revis(it)ing the
International Symbol of Access. In: Disability & Society 22(5): 489-505
[DOI: 09687590701427602] |
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2006 |
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Special Education and the Risk of
Becoming Less Educated. In: European Societies 8(4): 577-599 [DOI:
14616690601002673]
(with Heike Solga).
Gebildet
– Ungebildet [Educated—Less Educated].
In: Lessenich, S. & F. Nullmeier (Eds.): Deutschland—eine gespaltene
Gesellschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 175-190 (Also published by
the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), Vol. 572)
Sonderpädagogische Bildungsexpansion, regionale Vielfalt—Deutschland
und USA im Vergleich [Special Education Expansion, Regional
Diversity—Comparing Germany and the United States]. In: Albrecht,
F., A. Bürli & A. Erdélyi (Eds.): Aspekte internationaler Heil- und
Sonderpädagogik. Bad Heilbrunn: Klinkhardt, 157-167
Eugenics; Euthanasia; Special Needs; Stigma. In: Fitzpatrick, Tony,
et al. (Eds.): International Encyclopedia of Social Policy.
London: Routledge |
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2005 |
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(with Lisa Pfahl). Die Exklusion von
Schüler/innen mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf: Ein Beitrag zur
Debatte um Bildungs-standards und die Schule für Alle [The Exclusion
of Students with Special Educational Needs: The Debate on Standards
and Schools for All]. In: Gemeinsam Leben, Zeitschrift für
integrative Erziehung 13(2): 69-78
Online: bidok.uibk.ac.at/library |
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2004 |
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Schulische Integration als Bürgerrecht
in den USA. [School Integration as a Civil Right in the United
States]. In: Becker, U. & A. Graser (Eds.): Perspektiven der
schulischen Integration von Kindern mit Behinderung. Baden-Baden:
Nomos, 93-124. |
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2003 |
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(with Lothar Krappmann, Achim
Leschinsky). Kinder, die besonderer pädagogischer Förderung bedürfen
[Children
with Special Educational Needs]. In: Cortina, K.S., J.
Baumert, A. Leschinsky, K.U. Mayer & L. Trommer (Eds.): Das
Bildungswesen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Strukturen und
Entwicklungen im Überblick. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 755-786
Constructing Disability and Social Inequality Early in the Life
Course: The Case of Special Education in Germany and the United
States. In: Disability Studies Quarterly 23(2): 57-75
Hochbegabt, behindert oder normal? Klassifikationssysteme des
sonderpädagogischen Förderbedarfs in Deutschland und
den Vereinigten Staaten [Gifted, Disabled, or Normal? Classification
Systems of Special Educational Needs in Germany and
the United States]. In: Cloerkes, G. (Ed.): Wie man behindert wird.
Texte zur Konstruktion einer sozialen Rolle und zur Lebenssituation
betroffener Menschen. Heidelberg: Winter, 103-140 |
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Research Projects
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Teaching Experience
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Graduate and undergraduate seminars on
educational systems, social inequality and stratification, Disability Studies, and "knowledge societies“ at Georgia Augusta
University of Göttingen and at Freie Universität Berlin |
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