Sociology Professor Michael Sauder receives Max Weber Centre Fellowship

Friday, March 1, 2019

Michael Sauder University of Iowa Professor of Sociology Michael Sauder has been awarded a fellowship from the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt, Germany, for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Sauder was granted the award to support his current research project examining perceptions about luck and social outcomes, and to continue his work on the unintended consequences produced by public rankings and other accountability measures. Ten awards are granted each year to applications from all parts of the world, bringing together scholars from economics, religious studies, law, philosophy, history, sociology, and theology.

Sauder joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2005. He is the editor of Contemporary Sociology and is Chair-Elect of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association. He has also been awarded fellowships by the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars Program at Harvard University; the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology in Bielefeld, Germany; the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University; and the Obermann Center for Advanced Study at the University of Iowa.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.