Prof. Dr. John Levi Martin

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsSociological Theory
KeywordsFeldtheorie, political psychology, Soziale Netzwerke

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityChicago
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
InstituteSociology Department

Host during sponsorship

Priv. Doz. Dr. Jan Arendt FuhseBerlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2016

Programme(s)

2016Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Martin is one of the most important and influential sociologists of his generation. He pioneers quantitative techniques to study social structures from relationship networks in communes to political voting patterns. In addition, he develops pragmatist foundations for sociology, formulating a social aesthetics of how actors behave and relate to each other in diverse social fields. In Germany, Professor Martin focuses on the political field, from its conceptualization to empirical case studies.