Wolfgang Knöbl#
| Membership Number: | 4804 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.his-online.de/personen/personen-detail/person/wolfgang-knoebl |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2015 - present Sociologist, director of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research
- since June 2017 Adjunct professor for political sociology and sociological research on violence at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
- April 2002 – April 2015 Full professor (C4) of sociology at Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany
- 2011/12 Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Universität Freiburg, Germany
- 2010 Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Universität Erfurt, Germany
- 2005/06 Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Universität Erfurt, Germany
- 2003/04 DAAD German Chair, University of Toronto
- July 2000 Completion of the Habilitation
- Spring 1997 Theodor Heuss Lecturer, Department of Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York
- 1996 - 2002 Assistant professor, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1995 - 1996 Postdoc in the graduate program "Democracy in the U.S.", Freie Universität Berlin
Fields of Scholarship
- History of sociology
- Violence in modern societies
- Political sociology
- Social theory
- Theories of modernity and modernization
- Historical sociology
- Conflict and peace research
- Comparative macro-historical research
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Ordinary Member, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
- 2011/12 Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Universität Freiburg, Germany
- 2010 Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Universität Erfurt, Germany
- 2005/06 Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Universität Erfurt, Germany
