Johann Pall Arnason#
| Membership Number: | 5870 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Affiliated section(s): | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ICELAND |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2007 - 2015 Visiting Professor, Charles University, Prague
- 1999 - 2000 Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Uppsala
- 2002 - 2003 Visiting Professor (on sabbatical), European University Institute, Firenze
- 2003 Emeritus Professor, LaTrobe University
- 1994 - 2003 Professor of Sociology, LaTrobe University
- 1989 - 1993 Reader in Sociology, LaTrobe University
- 1975 - 1988 Senior Lecturer in Sociology, LaTrobe University
- 1979 - 1980 Visiting Professor, Max-Planck-Institut für Erforschung der Lebensbedingungen der wissenschaftlich-technischen Welt, Starnberg
- 1975 Visiting professor for Sociology, University of Bielefeld.
- 1972 - 1975 Acting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertreter) at the Institute for Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Heidelberg
- 1970 - 1972 Research fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftung
Fields of Scholarship
- Civilizational analysis
- Sociology of modernity
- Social philosophy
- Comparative-historical sociology
- Sociological theory
Honours and Awards
- 2008 Research Prize (Forschungspreis), Alexander v Humboldt Foundation
- 2008 Fellow at the Swedish collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsla
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavik
- 2012 Palacký Medal for the Social Sciences (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- 2014 Honorary Doctorate in Historical Sciences, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem (Czech Republic)
