Andrei Markovits

Andrei Markovits, Steven ( born October 6, 1948 in Timişoara, Romania ) is an American political scientist and sociologist and since 1999 Charles W. German Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA). In March 2009, the University of Michigan in addition to the Arthur F. Thurnau professorship gave him an award for his achievements in teaching and support of students at the University of Michigan.

Life

Markovits grew up as an only child of a Jewish middle class family and learned from childhood Romanian and German, as well as English and later French. Moreover, speaks, reads and writes Hungarian and Yiddish, while it can read Russian, Hebrew and Italian. At the age of 9, he moved with his father to Vienna, from where he as a teenager until 1967 every summer to New York City, where he then emigrated to the Matura (Abitur ) at the Theresa Academy drove.

Markovits studied economics, sociology, "business administration" and political science at Columbia University, where he earned five degrees, including the PhD (BA 1969, MBA 1971, MA 1973, M.Phil. Ph.D. in 1974 and 1976). He was from 1975 to 1999 Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, 1977-1983 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wesleyan University, then from 1983 to 1992 Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University, 1992-1995 Chair of the political science department at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and by 1999 there a professor of political science. 2007 awarded him an honorary doctorate from the University of Lüneburg as Dr. honoris causa, Dr. hc. 2006 he held in Germany, a visiting professor at the University of Dortmund. He was also, inter alia, Visiting scholar at the University of Osnabrück, the University of Bochum, the University of Innsbruck, the University of St. Gallen, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Webster University in Vienna and in the academic year 1998/99 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. In 1979 he was a Fellow at the Economic and Social Science Research Institute of the German Trade Union Federation in Dusseldorf, which also strengthened his relationship with the union- Hans Boeckler Foundation. He has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the B'nai B'rith Foundation, the Hans Boeckler Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) or that of J. William Fulbright in the course of his career. The academic year 2008/ 09 he spent as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In the summer semester 2010, he held at the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna which Sir Peter Ustinov Chair of the City of Vienna for the exploration and combat prejudice.

Awards

Markovits has received several honors and awards, including:

2012, the Federal Cross of Merit First Class
2006/2007 Golden Apple Award for best teacher at the campus of the University of Michigan
2006/2007 Tronstein Award at the same university for particularly valuable for teaching undergraduate students
1996/1997 Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of California

Work

Markovits occurs in the U.S. and Europe, especially Germany and Austria, as well as a speaker and social critic in appearance. He joined about 400 academic and other events in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Israel as keynote speaker, panel discussant or speakers. Many a time, he is also an expert and interviewed on TV or radio shows to host, for example, on 3sat or OE1. He researches and publishes on Jewish history, Israel, anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, new antisemitism, right, German and European as well as American politics and society, trade unions, social change highly industrialized societies and lately increasingly sports, especially football. Interviews, reports or guest posts published among others in the following publications: Boston Globe, La Stampa, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, FAZ, taz, Frankfurter Rundschau, Die Welt, Berlin Republic, Berliner Zeitung, Der Standard, The Forward, The Baltimore Sun, The Ann Arbor News, express, jungle world, West German Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, participation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The week, Tikkun, Newsday, Mirror special, Vision: La Revista Latinoamericana, Democratic Left, construction: The Jewish monthly magazine, phase 2, Handelsblatt, Tagesspiegel, Specifically, Wiener Zeitung, moths or ballesterer fm.

Memberships

Markovits is a member of the

American Political Science Association (APSA ), the
American Sociological Association (ASA ), the
American Historical Association ( AHA), the
International Political Science Association ( IPSA ), the
International Studies Association ( ISA),
American Association of University Professors ( AAUP ), the
Conference Group on German Politics ( CGGP ), the
German Studies Association (GSA ) and the
The New York Academy of Sciences.

Research priorities

He has 19 books as author, co - author, editor or co-editor published about 100 scientific papers and 50 times review article. His publications have appeared in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Chinese and Persian. His research interests include democratic theory, German -Jewish history since 1945, nationalism, right-wing, New Left, Political Sociology, American, Austrian and German society, sports in developed industrial societies, and lately increasingly anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. He is a student of the political scientist Karl W. German. Markovits has written standard works of political science such as green beats red The German Left after 1945.

Magazines and newspapers

Markovits is the founder and from 1983 to 2003 was editor of the scientific journal " German Politics and Society ". In addition, he sits in the scientific advisory board of the following journals: German Politics, New German Critique, innovation, Austrian Journal of History, Contemporary Austrian Studies, The Journal of Area Studies.