SCAS News - 14 December, 2017
Former SCAS Fellow Johan Heilbron New Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University
On 26 January, 2018, Johan Heilbron will be awarded an honorary doctorate at Uppsala University.
He will become the 16th SCAS Fellow to receive an honorary doctorate at Uppsala.
Johan Heilbron is a distinguished researcher in the field of the social and intellectual history of the
social sciences. He is Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science
politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP), teaches at the École des hautes études en sciences
sociales (EHESS)
and is also Professor of Sociology at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
He is the author of Het ontstaan van de sociologie that was mainly written when Johan Heilbron
was a Fellow of SCAS in 1988-89. It first appeared in 1990, while an English translation appeared
as The Rise of Social Theory in 1995 and a French edition as Naissance de la Sociologie in 2006.
His monograph French Sociology was published in 2015.
He is co-editor, together with Björn Wittrock and Lars Magnusson, of The Rise of Social Sciences
and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850 (1998). In addition, he
is co-editor of Pour une histoire des sciences sociales. Hommage à Pierre Bourdieu (2004) and
of the
Collected Works of Norbert Elias (which appeared in 19 volumes at Suhrkamp
Verlag).
Over the years, Johan Heilbron has kept an affiliation with SCAS and was in the years 2006-2009
a member of an EU-funded project on transnational collaboration in the social sciences and humanities
(Global SSH, coordinated by Björn Wittrock).
In 2014, Johan Heilbron was awarded the Sarton Medal
by the University of Ghent.
This academic year he is a Member of the School of Social Sciences at the
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
On January 25, at 11:15, Johan Heilbron will give a seminar in the Thunberg Hall. The theme is
Trans-
national Cultural Exchange and Globalization
