Andrei S. Markovits

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Andrei S. Markovits (2011)

Andrei Steven Markovits (born October 6, 1948 in Timișoara , Romania ) is an American political scientist and sociologist and since 1999 Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor ( USA ). In March 2009, the University of Michigan also awarded him the Arthur F. Thurnau Chair in recognition of his services to teaching and student support at the University of Michigan.

Life

Markovits grew up as the only child of a Jewish middle-class family and learned Romanian and German from childhood, as well as English and later French. He also speaks, reads and writes Hungarian and Yiddish, while he can read Russian, Hebrew and Italian. At the age of 9, he moved with his father to Vienna , from where he drove to New York City every summer as a teenager until 1967 , where he then emigrated after graduating from the Theresian Academy .

Markovits studied economics, sociology, business administration and political science at Columbia University , where he obtained five degrees including a doctorate ( BA 1969, MBA 1971, MA 1973, M.Phil. 1974 and Ph.D. 1976). From 1975 to 1999 he was Research Associate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University , from 1977 to 1983 Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wesleyan University , then from 1983 to 1992 Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston University , from 1992 to 1995 Chair of political science departments at the University of California in Santa Cruz and until 1999 professor of political science there. 2007, he was awarded the University of Lüneburg , the honorary doctorate as Dr. honoris causa, Dr. hc 2006 he held a visiting professorship in Germany at the University of Dortmund . He was also 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 , the University of Tel Aviv , the Webster University in Vienna and in the academic year 1998/99 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 1979 he was a fellow at the Economic and Social Science Research Institute of the German Trade Union Confederation in Düsseldorf , which also intensified his relationship with the union - related Hans Böckler Foundation . In the course of his career he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation , the B'nai B'rith Foundation, the Hans Böckler Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and that of J. William Fulbright . He spent the 2008/09 academic year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University . In the summer semester 2010 he held the Sir Peter Ustinov Professorship of the City of Vienna at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna for research into and combating prejudice.

Awards

Markovits received several honors and awards including:

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

Act

Markovits appears in the USA and Europe, especially Germany and Austria, as a speaker and social critic. He has appeared at around 400 academic and other events in the US, Canada, Europe and Israel as a keynote speaker, panel discussant or speaker. He is also often a guest as an expert and interview partner in TV or radio programs, for example on 3sat or Ö1 . He researches and publishes on Jewish history, Israel, anti-Americanism , anti-Semitism , new anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism, German and European as well as American politics and society, trade unions, social change in highly industrialized societies and, recently, more and more sport, namely football. Interviews, reports and guest contributions have appeared in the following publications, among others: Boston Globe , La Stampa , Los Angeles Times , International Herald Tribune , FAZ , taz , Frankfurter Rundschau , Die Welt , Berliner Republik , Berliner Zeitung , Der Standard , The Forward, The Baltimore Sun , The Ann Arbor News, express, jungle world , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Mitbestimmen, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Die Woche , Tikkun , Newsday, SpiegelSpezial, Vision: La Revista Latinoamericana, Democratic Left, Structure: The Jewish monthly magazine, Phase 2, Handelsblatt , Tagesspiegel , Konkret , Wiener Zeitung , Falter or ballesterer fm .

Memberships

Markovits is a member of the

Research priorities

He has published 19 books as an author, co-author, editor or co-editor, approx. 100 specialist articles and 50 review articles. His publications have appeared in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Danish, Swedish, Hungarian, Hebrew, Chinese and Persian. His research interests are democratic theory, German-Jewish history after 1945, nationalism , right-wing extremism , New Left , political sociology, American, Austrian and German society, sport in developed industrial societies, and, recently, increasingly anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. He is a student of the political scientist Karl W. Deutsch . Markovits wrote standard works of political science like green beats red. The German Left after 1945 .

Magazines and newspapers

Markovits is the founder and was editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "German Politics and Society" from 1983 to 2003. He is also on the scientific advisory board of the following journals: German Politics, New German Critique, Innovation, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft, Contemporary Austrian Studies, The Journal of Area Studies.

Publications

  • Society of the Federal Republic of Germany
  1. "The face of one's own past": From the Goldhagen debate to the Kosovo conflict (Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1999) [editor with Jürgen Elsässer ]
  2. The German Dilemma: Power and Change of Power in the Berlin Republic (Berlin: Alexander Fest Verlag, 1998) [with Simon Reich] ISBN 3-8286-0047-6 ;
  3. From Federal Republic to Germany: German Politics After Unification (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993). [Editor with Michael Huelshoff and Simon Reich.]
  4. The Political Economy of West Germany: Model Germany (New York: Praeger, 1982) [editor]
  • New Left; Unions
  1. Green beats red: The German Left after 1945 (Hamburg: Rotbuch Verlag, 1997) [with Philip S. Gorski]
  2. The Politics of the West German Trade Unions: Strategies of Class and Interest Representation in Growth and Crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
  3. Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany and Sweden (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984) [co-author with George Ross, Andrew Martin, Peter Gourevitch, Stephen Bornstein and Christopher Allen]
  4. The Political Economy of West Germany: Model Germany (New York: Praeger, 1982) [editor]
  • Democracy theory
  1. Democracy: Modus and Telos - Contributions for Anton Pelinka (Vienna: Boehlau-Verlag, 2001) editor with Sieglinde K. Rosenberger
  2. The Politics of Scandal: Power and Process in Liberal Democracies (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1988) [editor with Mark Silverstein]
  3. Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian Galicia (Cambridge: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 1982) [editor with Frank S. Sysyn]
  4. Fear of Science - Trust in Science: Conditions for Change in the Climate of Opinion (Cambridge: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1980) [editor with Karl W. Deutsch]
  5. Problems of World Modeling: Political and Social Implications (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1977) [edited with Karl W. Deutsch, Bruno Fritsch and Helio Jaguaribe]
  • Anti-Americanism; anti-Semitism
  1. Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007) ISBN 0-691-12287-3 .
  2. America, you better hate yourself. Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism in Europe (Hamburg: Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, 2004), Third Edition, ISBN 3-930786-45-1 .
  • Sports
  1. Sport: Motor and Impulse System for Emancipation and Discrimination, Lecture in Vienna City Hall on May 3, 2010; Picus Verlag, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85452-554-7 .
  2. Gaming the World: How Sports are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010) [with Lars Rensmann ] ISBN 978-1-4008-3466-2 .
  3. Querpass: Sport and Politics in the Transatlantic Area (Göttingen: Verlag die Werkstatt, 2007) [with Lars Rensmann] ISBN 3-89533-580-0 .
  4. Sport and Cultural Space, special issue of American Behavioral Scientist Volume 46, Number 11 (July 2003) [edited with Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young]
  5. Offside: Soccer and American Exceptionalism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) [with Steven L. Hellerman]; German edition: In the offside: Football in American sports culture (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition , 2002) ISBN 3-930908-78-6 .

Web links

Commons : Andrei S. Markovits  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Andrei Markovits - Sir Peter Ustinov Professorship SS 2010. Press release May 31, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Markovits, Andrei S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Markovits, Andrei Steven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Romania