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of  Rafael Wittek

September 2005
 


Personalia
 
Name Rafael Paul Matthias WITTEK
born 27-01-1965 in Würzburg (Germany)
   
Adress Home: Turftorenstraat 10a, 9712 BP Groningen
Work: Department of Sociology, Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG Groningen
   
Phone Home: (050) 577 7821
Office: (050) 363 6282
   
Fax (050) 363 6226
   
Email r.p.m.wittek@rug.nl
   
Academic Positions
 
2001- Full Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
   
1999-01 Post-doctoral Researcher, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of  Groningen (The Netherlands)
   
1998-99 Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
   
1998 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Cornell University (USA).
   
1993-97 PhD Student, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
   
1991-93 Lecturer, Department for Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
   
1988-90 Research assistant, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Tübingen University (Germany)
   
1988-89 Tutor, Soziologisches Seminar, Tübingen University (Germany)

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Academic Education
 
1999 PhD in Sociolgy (cum laude), University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
   
1991 Magister Artium in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology (cum laude), Tübingen University (Germany)
   

Publications

For an overview: see Publications
 

Teaching

For an overview: see Teaching

 

Management Experience and
Service to the Academic Community

Memberships of Editorial Boards
2004- Associate Editor of International Sociology
   
2003- Member of the Editorial Board of the Sage Studies in International Sociology.
   
2003- Member of the Editorial Board of the Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences
 
Coordination and Management Experience
2001- Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Groningen
   
2001- Board Member of ICS.
   
1999- Coordinating postdoc for NWO-program Solidarity at Work (PBB 9817)
   
1999- Section coordinator ‘Anthropology’, European post-graduate mastersprogram ‘Humanitarian Assistance’, University of Groningen
   
1999 Trimester Coordinator (Year I, Trimester 1), Sociologie, RUG
   
1992-93 Research coordinator enquête on subject choices among 3000 students at the Faculty of Economics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
   
1992-93 Coordinator of the international internship program of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Organization of Congresses
2003 Co-organisation of the international symposium Rational Choice and Social Institutions, Fukuoka (Japan), October 3-5
   
1991 Co-organisation of the international symposium Forms of Exchange and the Development of Market Economies. University Erlangen-Nürnberg
   
1991 Co-organisation panel Konfliktethnologie German Anthropological Society, Munich
   
Review Activities for Scientific Journals
Rationality and Society, Social Networks, Group and Organization Management, Journal of Classical Sociology, International Sociology, Sage Studies in International Sociology, Netherlands Journal for the Social Sciences, Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken


Grants and Honours

Acquisition of Grants
2003 51.000 Euro for research project "Solidarity at work and informal networks within semi-virtual teams" (NWO MES 014-43-722)
   
2000 1.5 Mln. Hfl. for research program "Governance by Reorganization" (NWO-Vernieuwingsimpuls 016.005.052)
   
2000 225.000 Hfl. for PhD-project "Time Competition, Flexible Contracts, and Intrahousehold Negotiation" (NWO 490-24-060-C)
   
1992 ca. 15.000 DM for 15 projects of student research in Developing Countries (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, DAAD)
   
1991 ca. 3.000 DM for survey on intraorganizational exchange of services (Hans-Frisch Stiftung, Nürnberg)
   
1991 ca. 5.000 DM for organisation of international symposium (Hans-Frisch Stiftung, Nürnberg)
   

Honours and Fellowships

2003- Chairman of the Section RC45 ‘Rational Choice’ of the International Sociological Association
   
2003 External referee for the evaluation of the application for the establishment of the International Graduate College on the theme of "Changing Models of Sovereignty in Southeast Asia" (Universities of Leiden, Muenster, and Bonn), on behalf of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and NWO.
   
2002 External referee for the evaluation of the Sonderforschungsbereich 504 "Rationalitaetskonzepte, Entscheidungsverhalten und oekonomische Modellierung" (Mannheim University), on behalf of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
   
2001-02 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS)
   
2000 SNS-bank/RUG-dissertatieprijs (10.000 Hfl for the best social science dissertation in Groningen of the years 1997-2000)
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Research and Teaching Visits
 
2002 Visiting Professor, ISEG, Technical University Lisbon (Portugal). 1 week, funded by Technical University of Lisbon.
   
2001 Visiting Scholar, Vista University (South Africa). 2 weeks, funded by Vista.
   
1998 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Cornell University. 5 months
   
1997 LASMAS/CNRS, Universiteit Paris/Sorbonne (France). 1 week, funded by NWO.
   
1996 Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh (USA). 10 weeks, funded by NWO, ICS, en STIR.
   
1996 Department of Sociology, University of Chicago (USA). 1 week, funded by NWO, ICS, en STIR.
   
1996 LASMAS/CNRS, University of Paris/Sorbonne (France). 1 week, funded by NWO.
   
1991 Department of Sociology, Jagiellionian-University Cracow (Poland). 1 week, funded by University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.
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(c) 2006 - Prof. dr. R.P.M. Wittek, Department of Sociology/ICS, University of Groningen,
Grote Rozenstraat 31, 9712 TG  Groningen, The Netherlands