George Steinmetz 
Curriculum vitae
Employment:
2017-2018 Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Sciences, Princeton, NJ
July 2016-present Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
July 2004-present Professor of Sociology and German Studies, , University of Michigan
July 2008-June 2009 Visiting Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
1-3/2007; 1-2/2012, 1-3/2014 Directeur d’études associé (visiting professor), École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
July 1997-June 2004 Associate Professor with tenure, University of Michigan, Sociology and German Studies
August 1997-July 2002 Senior Research Associate, Department of Sociology, university of Chicago
Oct. 1994-June 1997 Associate Professor with tenure, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
1987-Sept. 1994 Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Department of Sociology
Education:
1985-1987 University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ph.D., Sociology (December, 1987).
Ph. D. Thesis: “Social Policy and the Local State: A Study of
Municipal Public Assistance, Unemployment Relief, and Social
Democracy in Germany, 1871-1914”
1983-1985 Research in Germany, enrolled at University of Mannheim, took classes at Free University of Berlin (1983-1985)
1980-1983 University of Wisconsin-Madison. B.A. in German Literature and Languages and Psychology (1980); M.S. in Sociology (1983)
Master’s Thesis: “Economic Crisis and Collective Action: WorkingClass Protest against Unemployment in Paris during the 1880s”
1977-1979 University of Paris VI (exchange program with Sarah Lawrence College)
1975-1979 Reed College
Fellowships, Honors, and Grants:
2012-2015 Grant from OVPR and LSA, University of Michigan, for project on “Social Scientists and Imperial Politics: Britain, France, and Germany, 1930s-1960s”
2011-2012 Exploratory research grant from the ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline
2011-2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
2011-2012 Norbert Elias Fellowship (Norbert-Elias-Stipendium), Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (German Literature Archive, Marbach) 2009 Collegiate Professorship, University of Michigan
2008 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association in 2008 for The Devil’s Handwriting
2008 Barrington Moore, Jr. Award for best book in the area of comparative and historical sociology, American Sociological Association (for The Devil’s Handwriting)
2008 Mary Douglas Award for best book, awarded by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association (for The Devil’s Handwriting).
2008 Rackham Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan
2008 Recipient of CNRS visiting foreign researcher position (poste rouge).
2006 Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology, (American Sociological Association)
2006-2007 Michigan Humanities Award
2005-2006 Faculty Recognition Award for outstanding contributions as teacher, scholar, and member of the University of Michigan community 2004 Exploratory research grant from the ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline for production of documentary film “Detroit: Ruin of a City”
2004-2005 Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows (resigned)
2003-2004 Advanced Study Center, University of Michigan, seed grant for work on documentary film “Detroit: Ruin of a City”
2001-2002 A. Bartlett Giamatti Faculty Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
2001 Travel grant from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1999 Grant from the International Institute, University of Michigan, for the book series “Power, History, and Culture” (with Julia Adams)
1995/1996 John Simon Guggenheim fellowship
1995 Travel grant from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) 1994 Exploratory research grant from the ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline for research on colonialism
1992-1996 Nomination and invitation to Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (not used)
1992 German Marshall Fund Fellow
1990-1991 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) research grant for University Teachers
1988-1995, 1996-1997 Social Science Divisional Research grant, University of Chicago
1989 Teaching Award, Society for Social Research (awarded by University of Chicago graduate students in Sociology)
1985-1986 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1985 University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1984 Social Science Research Council International Doctoral Research Fellowship for Western Europe
1983-1984 Recipient of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship and Fulbright Fellowship (relinquished in favor of DAAD fellowship)
1982 Council for European Studies Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
1981-1982 University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1975-1976; 1976-1977 Reed College, Faculty Commendation for Excellence in Scholarship
Other Research and Professional Positions:
Corresponding Foreign Member, Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-Paris) (formerly Centre de sociologie européenne), 2007-present
Corresponding Member, Académie de Mâcon (Mâcon, France), Feb. 2014-present
Member, Sociological Research Association (American Sociological Association)
Faculty Associate, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, University of Michigan
Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Faculty Associate, African Studies Center, University of Michigan
Associate member, University of Chicago, Department of History (June 1990-1997)
Associate member, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the Irving B. Harris Graduate
School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago (1991-1997 )
Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, international project on class structure and class consciousness, 1982-1983
Research Assistant, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison, project on effects of job loss on industrial workers, 1980-1981