Stefan Immerfall

Stefan Immerfall (born May 5, 1958 in Deggendorf ) is a German sociologist and university professor .

Life

Immerfall studied social sciences , economics and psychology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Ruhr University Bochum , where he obtained his diploma in 1984 . In 1990 he was at the University of Passau with the work territory and voting behavior: modeling geopolitical and geo-economic processes to Dr. phil. PhD. Also in Passau in 1996 the habilitation took place .

From 1994 to 1996 Immerfall was DAAD -German Studies Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Department of Political Science, 1997 lecturer at Ålborg Universitetscenter . From 1997 to 1999 Immerfall was senior assistant for sociology at the University of Passau, then deputy professor for Peter Flora at the University of Mannheim

2000 followed Immerfall a call to the University of Education Schwäbisch Gmund a professor of Sociology. In a research semester in 2004/05 he was a guest at the European University Institute in Florence , at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Indiana University Bloomington .

In 2005/2006 Immerfall worked as a fellow at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin , and in 2010 as a visiting professor at Grand Valley State University . A research semester at the University of Cambridge followed in 2010/11 .

Research priorities

The main focus of his work is always the sociology of European integration , international comparative political economy and political sociology . He also deals with problems of the German economic and social constitution as well as with questions of civil society cohesion.

Awards

• 2017 Project “Early European Education: Building Blocks for Lessons in Primary School” awarded as “Good Practice Example”
• 1996 German Studies Award, Center for European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
• 1991 East Bavarian Culture Prize

Fonts (selection)

• with Barbara Wasner: Freizeit , Stuttgart: UTB, 2011. ISBN 978-3-8252-3446-1 .
• ed. with Göran Therborn : Handbook of European Societies , New York: Springer, 2010: ISBN 978-0-387-88199-7 .
• Europe - political unification and social development , Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-531-14536-5 .
• Ed .: Territoriality in the Globalizing Society , New York: Springer, 1998. ISBN 978-3-642-63769-8 .
• Introduction to comparing European societies: approaches - problems - findings . Passau: Rothe, 1994 (2nd edition 1995). ISBN 3-927575-35-6 .
• Territory and voting behavior: for modeling geopolitical and geo-economic processes Opladen: Leske and Budrich 1992. ISBN 3-8100-0931-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Immerfall in the catalog of the German National Library
• Schwäbisch Gmünd University of Education, content page Stefan Immerfall
• CV on ph-gmuend.de (as of April 18, 2019; PDF; 1.0 MB)