Curriculum Vitae

Employment

2016 – present 
Full Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria

• Head of Center for Social Research (2022-)
• Vice Dean, School of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences (2019-2022)
• Head of Department of Sociology (2017-2021)

2013 – 2023 
Honorary Professor (2016-2023), Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Senior Lecturer (2013-2016), Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

2008 – 2013 
Associate to Full Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Marshall University, WV, USA.

2005 – 2008 
Visiting Assistant and Associate Professor, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA. (2005-06 also Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology).

2000 – 2008 
University Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria (on leave 2005-08)

2000 – 2002 
Research Scientist on the project "Value Change and Social-structural Transformation," University of Graz, Austria

Education

2005 Habilitation, Sociology, University of Graz, Austria

2002 Ph.D., Sociology (Social and Economic Sciences), University of Graz, Austria

1999 MA, Sociology, University of Graz, Austria