Prof. Dr. Sighard Neckel
Photo: Kathrin Spirk
Senior Permanent Fellow
Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability"
Address
University of Hamburg
Visitor address: Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 1st floor, right wing
Mailing address: Gorch-Fock-Wall 5-7, Mail box No. 8, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
Office
Room: 1025
Contact
Tel: +49 40 42838-2628
CV
- Studies of sociology, law, and philosophy at University of Bielefeld and Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). Diploma in sociology at FU Berlin.
- 1984–1997 Assistant Lecturer, Research Associate and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at FU Berlin.
- 1990 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at FU Berlin.
- 1996 Habilitation (venia legendi) in sociology at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at FU Berlin.
- 1997–2000 Professor of Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the University of Siegen.
- 2000–2001 Professor of Sociology at the University of Wuppertal.
- 2000–2017 Member of the Council of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research (IfS).
- 2001–2007 Professor of Sociology at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.
- 2007–2011 Professor of Sociology at the University of Vienna (Austria) / Head of the Department of Sociology.
- 2011–2016 Professor of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt / Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (2011–2013).
- 2012–2016 Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellence "Normative Orders" at Goethe University Frankfurt.
- 2016–2024 Professor of Sociology at University of Hamburg.
- 2019–2023 Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Research Center 1171 “Affective Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin.
- 2019–2023 Spokesperson of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at University of Hamburg.
- Since 2024 Professor emeritus and Senior Permanent Fellow of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” at University of Hamburg.
Research Areas
- Conflicts on Sustainability
- Social Inequality
- Economic Sociology
- Social Theory and Social Change
- Sociology of Emotions
- Cultural Sociology
Academic Activities
- Since 2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Department of Social Sciences at University of Basel (CH).
- Since 2020 Member of the International Advisory Board of the social science journal „Culture, Practice & Europeanization“.
- 2016–2020 Member of the Social Sciences Review Board of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / DFG).
- 2013–2021 Member and Spokesperson of the Board of Trustees of „Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut” (SOFI) Göttingen.
- Since 2012 Member of the Advisory Board of „Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie“.
- 2011–2013 Member of the Executive Commitee of the German Sociological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie / DGS).
- 1996–2009 Co-editor of the social science journal “Leviathan”.
- 1989–1995 Co-editor of „Prokla. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft“.
- Visiting professorships and fellowships at Duke University (USA), the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at University of Bielefeld, the Research Group on Post-Growth Societies at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) Vienna, Macquarie University Sydney, Seoul National University, University of Crete, University of Silesia Katowice, the University of Zurich and the University of Tokyo.