Hans Joas#
| Membership Number: | 3006 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/de/personen/aktuelle-fellows-a-z/joas |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Ernst Troeltsch Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2011 - 2014 Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
- 2006 - 2010 Vice President, International Sociological Association
- 2002 - 2011 Max Weber Professor and Director of the Max Weber Center, University of Erfurt
- 2006 - 2010 Vice President, International Sociological Association
- 2005 - 2006 Fellow Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2004 - 2005 Ernst Cassirer Professor, SCAS (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study), Uppsala, Sweden
- 2002 (Fall semester), Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
- 2000 - present Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
- 1999 - 2000 Fellow, SCAS (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study), Uppsala, Sweden
- 1997 Theodor Heuss Professor, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York
- 1994 Fellow, Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
- 1993 - 1995 Executive Director, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
- 1992 Fellow, SCAS (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study) and Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala
- 1990 - 2002 Full Professor in Sociology and North American Studies, Free University of Berlin
- 1987 - 1990 Full Professor in Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
- 1984 - 1987 Heisenberg Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education
- 1979 - 1983 Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education, Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- Social theory
- Pragmatism and hermeneutics
- Historical-comparative sociology of religion
- Studies of war and violence
- History and sociology of human rights
Honours and Awards
- Honorary doctorates: University of Tübingen (2012) and Uppsala University (2013)
- 2013 Hans-Kilian-Award
- 2010 Niklas Luhmann Award (“Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis”)
- 2006 – 2010 Vice-President of International Sociological Association
- 2005 - Member of the Board, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science
- 2002 Winner of the René König Prize of the German Sociological Association for the best textbook in German Sociology
- Fellow at the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg (2005/06), at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (1992, 1999/2000, 2004/05, 2010)
- 1998 Regular Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science
- Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Duke University; New School for Social Research; University of Vienna, Uppsala University, Gothenburg University, etc.
