Prof. Dr. Bernhard Giesen
Vita
01/2003-05/2003 Visiting Professor at Yale University, Department of Sociology
01/2001-05/2001
Since 2000 Research Director DFG Sonderforschungsbereich "Norm & Symbol"
04/1999 C-4 Professor and Chair at the University of Konstanz, Germany
09/1998 - 04/1999 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
01/1997 - 04/1999 Research Director DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich "Erinnerungskulturen"
09/1996 - 11/1990 Visiting Professor at New York University, Department of Sociology
10/1995 - External Professor at the European University Institute Florence, Italy
10/1994 - 07/1995 Professor (A 4) at the European University Institute Florence, Italy
10/1993 - 09/1994 Dean of the "Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften" at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
10/1991 - 01/1992 Fellow at the "Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung" Bielefeld, Germany
04/1991 Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
11/1990 - 02/1991 Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Department of Sociology
1989 - 1990 Executive Director at the "Institut für Soziologie" of Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
08/1989 Research commitment at Stanford University, Hoover Institute
07/1988 - 01/1991 Speaker for the interdisciplinary "Landesforschungsschwerpunkt" "Nationale und kulturelle Identität als Problem der europäischen Neuzeit" at the Universities Gießen, Marburg und Frankfurt, Germany (ten projects)
10/1982 - 06/1999 C-4 Professorship in Soziology at the "Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften" at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany
Research Areas
Macrosociology, Cultural Sociology
Functions within the Center
Principal investigator
Research project “Ambivalent Identities in Immigration Societies” (with Dr. Valentin Rauer and Yasemin Soytemel)
Abstract
Alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (October 2009-March 2010, October 2008-March 2009)
about the Institute for Advanced Study
Research project “Zwischenlagen”Abstract
Selected Publications
2010
Zwischenlagen. Das Außerordentliche als Grund der sozialen Wirklichkeit, Weilerswist: Velbrück, 2010.
2006
(with J. C. Alexander and J. L. Mast, eds.), Social Performance. Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2005
(with D. Suber, eds.), Politics and Religion: Cultural Perspectives, Leiden: Brill Publishers.
2004
(with J. C. Alexander, R. Eyermann, N. Smelser and P. Sztompka), Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity, Berkeley CA: University of California Press.
Triumph and Trauma, Boulder CO: Paradigm Publishers.
(with R. Schlögl and J. Osterhammel, eds.), Die Wirklichkeit der Symbole, Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz.
(with C. Schneider, eds.), Tätertrauma, Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz.
2002
(with K. Eder, O. Schmidtke and D. Tambini), Collective Identities in Action. A Sociological Approach to Ethnicity, Aldershot: Ashgate.
2001
(with K. Eder, eds.), European Citizenship. Between National Legacies and Postnational Projects, Oxford NZ: Oxford University Press.
Contact
Phone +49 7531 88-2348
Fax +49 7531 88-4497
Email bernhard.giesen[at]uni-konstanz.de
Office F 508
University of Konstanz