Education
1941-51: Humanistisches Gymnasium (Classical school), Darmstadt, Germany
1951-53: University of Frankfurt
1953-54: Ohio State University, Columbus
1954-55: New School for Social Research, New York City
1955-1960: University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. 1960 (sociology)
Teaching and research positions
1952-53 research assistant, Institut für Sozialforschung,
U. of Frankfurt
1953-54 research assistant, Dept. of Sociology, Ohio State U.
1954-55 market research, New York City
1955-58 graduate research sociologist, Institute of Industrial Relations,
U. of California, Berkeley
1958-60 associate in Social Science Integrated Course,
U. of California, Berkeley
1960-61 assistant professor, U. of Illinois, Urbana
1961-62 visiting assistant professor, Columbia U., New York,
continued history of sociological theory as lecturer until 1964
1962-1965 assistant to associate professor (Sept. 1964), State U. of New York,
Stony Brook
1965-1970, associate to full professor (July 1969), U. of California, Davis
1967-68, academic year, visiting professor, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
June 1968-June 69 (visiting) associate professor, U. of California, Berkeley,
research appointment in Institute of Industrial Relations.
1970-June 88 professor, U. of Washington, Seattle
[associate editor, American Sociological Review, 1969-72]
1972, one semester visiting professor, U. of Mannheim, Germany
[1975-1977, served on Western European Selection Committee of the
International Doctoral Research Fellowship program of the ACLS and
Social Science Research Council]
July 1980, Paris, chairman, Weber section, Research Committee on the History of Sociology, ISA
1983, April 1—August 15, Max Weber visiting professor, U. of Heidelberg
March-August 1984, Research Associate at the Center for European Studies,
Harvard
1988-1997, professor, Columbia U., New York
[six years academic selection committee, DAAD, NYC]
May-June 1992, visiting appointment U. of Bielefeld
Oct. 1992-July 93 visiting professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung), U. of Heidelberg
Nov. 1997, visiting scholar Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen
1998 Summer seminar, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Alpach, Austria)
Honors. Distinguished Scholarly Achievement Award, Section on the History of Sociology,
American Sociological Association, 2007.