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Employment

since 01 2009
Senior Research Fellow, research unit "Cultural Sources of Newness", Social Science Research Center Berlin (on parental leave 01 2010-12 2010).

10 2011 - 01 2012
Professorship "Sociological Theories, Sociology of Culture, and Economic Sociology", visiting professorship, Department of Sociology, University Vienna.

10 2003 - 12 2008
Assistant Professor, Research Unit Comparative Structural Analysis, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin (on parental leave 09 2005 - 03 2006; currently on leave).

2002 - 2003
Jean Monnet Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.

1993 - 1995
Social Science Research Center.
Junior Researcher, Research Unit "Organization and Technology"

Education

October 2002
Columbia University, New York, NY, Ph.D. in Sociology

October 2001
Columbia University, New York, NY, M.Phil. in Sociology

May 1998
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, M.A. in Sociology

May 1993
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, B.A. in Political Science

June 1990
Goethe-Oberschule, Berlin, Abitur

Honors and Awards

02 2012 - 05 2012
WZB stipend, visiting scholar, CES Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2004 and 2005
Travel grant, DFG

2002
Annette Kade Scholarship, Annette Kade Charitable Trust, NY

2000 - 2001
Graduate Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Columbia University

2001
Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Summer

2000
Dean's Summer Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Columbia University

1998 - 2001
Paul F. Lazarsfeld Stipendium, Columbia University

1998 - 2000
Dissertation Fellowship, Hamburg Institute for Social Research

1997
Summer Research Stipend, Department of Sociology, Cornell University

1996
Summer Research Stipend for Pre-dissertational Fieldwork, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University

1995 - 1998
Sage Graduate School Stipendium, Cornell University

1993
Phi Beta Kappa, Northern California Chapter

1991-1993
Dean's Honors List, University of Califonia at Berkeley

Professional Experience

2006 - 2010
Co-Chair, Section on Economic Sociology, German Sociological Association

2009
Organizer, International Workshop "Evaluation Practices in Art Worlds", Berlin, November

2008
Organizer, International Symposium “Relational Sociology: Transatlantic Impulses for the Social Sciences”, Berlin, September

2008
Organizer, Annual Meeting of Section on Economic Sociology „Theoretische Ansätze der Wirtschaftssoziologie“, Berlin, February

2001 - 2005
Founding Co-Chair, Thematic Network on Identities, Council for European Studies