Richard Sennett#
Foto: Thomas Struth
| Membership Number: | 2094 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.richardsennett.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- Visiting Fellow - Commoner of Trinity College
- Mid 1990 - University Professor of the Humanities, New York University, Professor of Sociology and Academic Governor, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences. (Doctor of Letters)
- 1980s - Advisor to UNESCO and president of the American Council on Work
- 1970s - Founder (together with Susan Sontag and Joseph Brodsky) of The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
Fields of Scholarship
- Social analysis
- Working-class identities
- Public realm of cities
- Philosophic implication in authority
Honours and Awards
- The Tessenow Prize, 2009
- The Gerda Henkel Prize, 2008
- The European Craft Prize, 2008
- The Hegel Prize, Germany, 2006
- Helen and Robert Lynd Award for Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2004
- Rothermere Lectures, Oxford University, 2004
- Castle Lectures, Yale University, 2004
- Honorary Doctorate, Loyola University, 2003
- The Berlin Prize for Sociology, 2001
- The Amalfi Prize for European Sociology, 1999
- The Friedrich Ebert Award for Sociology, 1999
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects, 2009
- Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, 2007
- Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, 2004
- Fellow, The European Academy, 2001
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996
- Chevalier de l‘Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1996
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature, 1996
