Prof. Dr. Willfried Spohn †
Vita
1964-1970 Studies in Sociology, Political Science, History and Protestant Theology in Tübingen und Berlin
1970 Diploma in Sociology at FU Berlin; Thesis: "Theories of Convergence and Divergence”
1976 Dr. phil. at FU Berlin, Dissertation Thesis: "World market competition and German industrialization, 1870-1914"
1984 Habilitation in Sociology at FU Berlin, Habilitation Thesis: "Sociology and History – Critique of the Controvery between Edward P. Thompson und Perry Anderson"
1970-1984 Assistant and Assistant Professor as well as
1984 Adjunct Professor at Institute of Sociology, FU Berlin
1988-1989 Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N.J., USA
1989-2005 Guest Professor in International and European Studies, Sociology and Political Science at several US American universities:
University of Washington, Seattle, WA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; New York University; Columbia University; New School for Social Research, New York
1999-2001 Senior Fellow at European University Institute Florence: European Forum
2001-2004 Research Director of EU-Project EURONAT (with B. Strath und A. Triandafyllidou) „Representations of Europe and the Nation in current and prospective member states - elites, media, and civil society“ (5th framework programme, DG XII), affiliated with European-University Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder
2004/2005 Guest Professor in Sociology at Institute for Latin American Studies at FU Berlin
2006/2007 Otto von Freising Guest Professor, Catholic University Eichstätt
since 2009 Professor, Willy Brandt Center, University of Wrocław
2012 Willfried Spohn has died.
Research Areas
Historical and Comparative Sociology; Multiple modernities, globalization, and social change in comparative-civilizational perspective, Nationalism, ethnicity and religion in Western and Eastern European comparison, European and International Studies
Function within the Cluster
Alumnus of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (October 2007-September 2008)
about the Institute for Advanced Study
Research Project „Europeanization, Multiple Modernities and Collective Identities - Religion, nation and ethnicity in an enlarged Europe“
Abstract
Selected Publications
Books
Politik und Religion in einer sich globalisierenden Welt, Wiesbaden: VS (2007 forthcoming)
Collective Memory and European Identity. Effects of Integration and Enlargement (edited with Klaus Eder), London: Ashgate 2005
Entangled Identities. Europe and the Nation (edited with A. Ichijo), London: Ashgate 2005
Europeanisation, National Identities and Migration: Changes in Boundary Constructions Between Western and Eastern Europe (edited with A. Triandafyllidou), London: Routledge 2002
Kulturanalyse und Vergleichende Forschung in Sozialgeschichte und historischer Soziologie, edited special issue, Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und Vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung, Leipzig 1998/1
Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies (edited with Stephen Hanson), University of Washington Press, Seattle 1995
Articles
Globale, multiple und verwobene Modernen - Perspektive der historischen Soziologie, in: Thomas Schwinn (ed.), Einheit und Vielfalt der Moderne. Struktur- und kulturvergleichende Analysen, Wiesbaden: VS 2006
Multiple Modernitäten und Europastudien, in: Timm Beichelt, et al. (eds), Interdisziplinäre Europastudien. Eine Einführung, Wiesbaden: VS 2006
Neue Historische Soziologie: Charles Tilly, Theda Skocpol, Michael Mann, in: Dirk Kaesler (ed.), Aktuelle Theorien der Soziologie, München: Beck 2005: 196-230
Multiple Modernity, Religion and Nationalism - A Global Perspective, in Ulrike Schuerkens (ed.), Social Transformations Between Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds, Current Sociology 51, 3/4, London: Sage 2003: 265-286
Nationalismus und Religion. Ein historisch-soziologischer Vergleich Ost- und Westeuropas, in: M. Minkenberg und U. Willems (Hg.), Politik und Religion, Sonderheft Politische Vierteljahresschrift 2003: 323-345
European East-West integration, nation-building and collective identities: the reconstruction of German-Polish relations, in: Europeanisation, National Identities and Migration. Changes in Boundary Constructions between Western and Eastern Europe (edited by Willfried Spohn and Anna Triandafyllidou), London: Routledge 2002: 123-143