Isabel M. Habicht gewinnt renommiertes Stipendium und geht für ein Jahr an die Harvard University
Isabel M. Habicht gewinnt renommiertes Stipendium und geht für ein Jahr an die Harvard University
Professional Background
Spring 2022
Visiting Professor, Sociology Department at Utrecht University
Since 2017
Professor of Sociology (W3), University of Wuppertal
2014 – 2017
Head of Max Planck Research Group (W2), Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Fall 2013/14
Visiting Scholar, Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Science Po, Paris
2010 – 2014
Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Fall 2012/13
Visiting Scholar, Chair of Sociology (Prof. Dr. Andreas Diekmann), ETH Zürich
2009 – 2010
Post-Doc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Fall 2008/09
Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2005 – 2009
Doctoral Student at the „International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy,” Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
2005
Internship in Market Research, Psychonomics AG, Cologne
2001 – 2005
Teaching Assistant at the Chair for Social Science Research Methods and Statistics, University of Duisburg-Essen
Education
2015
Habilitation. Venia Legendi in Sociology, University of Cologne
2009
Dr. rer. pol., University of Duisburg-Essen
2005
Diplom - Sozialwissenschaftler (equivalent to MA in Social Sciences), University of Duisburg-Essen
1998 – 2005
Undergraduate & Graduate Student in Social Sciences, Sociology, Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics, University of Duisburg-Essen
Awards
2016
Best Article Prize 2016, European Academy of Sociology (for the paper: "Do Women Suffer from Network Closure? The Moderating Effect of Social Capital on Gender Inequality in a Project-based Labor Market, 1929 to 2010." American Sociological Review 80: 329-358, 2015)
2014
Advisory Board Award 2014, Best-Paper Award of the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (for the paper: "Is There a Closure Penalty? Cohesive Network Structures, Diversity, and Gender Inequalities in Career Advancement", MPIfG Discussion Paper 13/9, 2013)
2011
Best Paper Award of the Society of Friends and Former Associates of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (for the paper: "Zur Erklärung von Diffusionsprozessen. Das Beispiel der Einführung staatlicher Lotterien in den USA", Zeitschrift für Soziologie 39(5), 2010, 363-381)
2008
First Prize of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Best Journal Article in the German Social Sciences of the Year 2007 (for the paper: Jens Beckert and Mark Lutter, "Wer spielt, hat schon verloren? Zur Erklärung des Nachfrageverhaltens auf dem Lottomarkt". Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 59, 240-270.)
2006
Prize Award for Outstanding Graduate Thesis (Diplomarbeit), University of Duisburg-Essen
(my graduate thesis examined the efficiency of weighting procedures in surveys using a monte-carlo simulation of the post-stratified ratio estimator under certain conditions of nonresponse)
Professional Activities
Since 2023
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE
2018 - 2022
Board Member of the Section "Social Network Analysis" of the German Sociological Association
Since 2018
Co-Director, GlüG, Institute for Gambling and Society (together with Prof. Justus Haucap, Prof. Julian Krüper, Prof. Sebastian Unger)
Since 2017
Member of the German Academy of Sociology
2014 - 2020
(Affiliated) Faculty Member, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), Cologne
2013 – 2016
Associate Board Member of the Journal "Sociology"
2009 – 2016
Book Review Editor, "European Economic Sociology Newsletter"
Since 2005
Member of the German Sociological Association
Since 2007
Occasional Reviewer for Journals such as:
American Sociological Review, American Political Science Review, European Sociological Review, International Gambling Studies, International Studies Quarterly, International Sociology, Journal of Socio-Economics/Journal of Behavioral Economics, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, MPIfG Discussion/Working Papers, Poetics, PLOS ONE, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, Sociological Spectrum, Sociology, Soziale Welt, Work and Occupations, Zeitschrift für Soziologie