Professor Dr Karl Mayer FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2000
Honours
Honorary Senator, University of Tübingen

Current post

Director Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Stanley B Resor Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute; Visiting Professor New York University at Abu Dhabi

Past appointments

\N Stanley B. Resor Professor of Sociology, Yale University; Co-Director Cener for Research on Inequalities and the LifeCourseIQLE),

2003 - 2010

Unknown Unknown Director, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin;

1970 -

Leibniz-Association President, Leibniz-Association

1970 -

New York University at Abu Dhabi Visiting Professor, New York University at Abu Dhabi

1970 -

Publications

Skill Formation: Interdisciplinary and Cross-National Perspectives Karl Ulrich Mayer and Heike Solga (eds.) (2008)

Das Bildungswesen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ( Report on the State of Education in Germany) Kai S. Cortina, Juergen Baumert, Achim Lechinsky, Karl Ulrich Mayer and Luitgard Trommer (eds.) (2008)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jane Lewis FBA

Social policy and administration; gender and sexuality studies; social History

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Professor Susan Golombok FBA

Parenting and child development in new family forms including same-sex parent families, single mothers by choice, and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, gamete donation and surrogacy

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Professor Craig Calhoun FBA

Social theory, political economy, and sociology addressing social movements, democratic politics and the public sphere, including nationalism, religion, secularism, universities and the history of social science

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