European Academy of Sociology - Fellows

Prof. Dr. Andreas Wimmer

2013 Distinguished Publication Prize winner of the EAS. 

Andreas Wimmer is the Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy at Columbia University in New York. Previously, he taught at Princeton University and at the University of California Los Angeles (from 2003 to 2012). Before moving to the United States, Wimmer was founding director of two interdisciplinary research institutes in Europe: the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel (from 1995 to 1999) and the Department of Political and Cultural Change at the Center for Development Research of the University of Bonn (from 1999 to 2002). He is currently a fellow of the Boundaries, Membership & Belonging Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For Princeton University Press, he edits the book series Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology. He also serves as a deputy editor of Sociological Science and as an associate editor of the American Political Science Review. He received honorary PhDs from McGill University and the University of Copenhagen, the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research, life-time achievement awards from sections of the American Sociological Association and the International Studies Association, as well as numerous best book and best article awards (including from the EAS). Early in his career, he was a recipient of the Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Council. His work has been published by the major journals in sociology and political science. His latest book is Nation Building. Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart, published by Princeton University Press in 2018. He is currently trying to understand how institutions and ideas diffuse across the world and with what long-term consequences.