Curriculum Vitae
born on June 26, 1946 in Kempten, Federal Republic of Germany
Education and Degrees
1995
Habilitation, Free University Berlin
1980
Dr. rer. pol. (Ph.D.) (political science), University of Munich
1976 - 1978
Teacher at Colleges in Munich and Starnberg
1978
Zweites Staatsexamen
1977
Dipl. sc. pol. (political sciences), Hochschule für Politik, Munich
1974
Erstes Staatsexamen (social sciences and sports), University of Munich
Professional Experience
2001
Honorary Professor at the Free University Berlin, Institute for Sociology.
2000
resumption of the research activity at the Social Science Research Center (WZB)
2000
Honorary Professor at the newly founded School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
1998 - 2000
Chair of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury
1996 - 1997
Chair of Sociology (temporarily) at the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North America Studies and at the Institute of Sociology, Free University Berlin
1995 - 1997
Lecturer (Privatdozent) at the Department of Political Science, Free University Berlin
1988 - 1997
Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Research Unit „Public Sphere and Social Movements“
1996
Saywer Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1985 - 1988
Research Fellow at the Sonderforschungsbereich 101 and 333, University of Munich
1983 - 1985
Scholarship funded by the German Research Association (DFG); Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University (1983) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1984)
1978-1983
Assistant Professor at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science, University of Munich