ACADEMIC TITLES
13.02.1980
State doctorate for Sociology at the economical and
socio-scientific institute at the Wilhelm University of
Münster with a paper about "Social Identity and Evolution"
05.12.1974
Dr. rer.pol. "summa cum laude" at the University of
Augsburg with a dissertation about “Theorien struktureller
Inkonsistenz”
21.02.1972
M.A. "with honours" at the University of Heidelberg

- Bernhard Giesen
| ACADEMIC POSITIONS
10/2006 - 12/2010 Board member of the Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration”, University of Konstanz
01/2003- 05/2003 01/2001- 05/2001 Visiting professorship at the Yale University, Department of Sociology
Since 2001 Research director at the DFG department “Norm & Symbol”
04/1999 C-4 Professorship at the University of Konstanz
09/1998- 04/1999 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
01/1997 – 04/199 Research director at the DFG department “Erinnerungskulturen”
09/1996- 11/1990 Visiting professorship at the New York University, Department of Sociology
10/1995 External Professor at the European Institute of University, Florence, Italy
10/1994- 07/1995 Professor (A4) at the European Institute of University, Florence, Italy
10/1993- 09/1994 Dean of the Department of Sociology at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen
10/1991- 01/1992 Residence of research at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld
04/1991 Visiting professorship at the University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought
11/1990- 02/1991 Visiting professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology
1989 – 1990 Managing director at the Institute for Sociology, University of Gießen
08/1989 Residence of research at the Stanford University, Hoover Institute
07/1988- 01/1991 Speaker of the interdisciplinary research group “Nationale und kulturelle Identität als Problem der europäischen Neuzeit” at the Universities of Gießen, Marburg and Frankfurt (ten single projects)
10/1982- 06/199 C4- Professorship at the Department of Sociology at the Justus-Liebig University, Gießen
1980- 1982 Assistant Professor at the University of Münster
1979- 1983 DGS speaker for the section „sociological theory“
04/1978- 03/1979 Substitute professor for sociology at the University of Hamburg
01/1976- 04/1982 Scientific assistant at the Institute of Economical and Socio-Scientific Research at the University of Münster
06/1975- 12/1975 Scientific assistant at the Department of Economics and Sociology at the University of Augsburg
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