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George Steinmetz
Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Germanic Languages and Literatures, U-M

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Co-Editor of the book series "Politics, History, and Culture" at the Duke University Press

U of M Affiliation(s)
Chinese Studies Center

Fields of Study
Social Theory, Imperialism and Colonialism, Analysis of the State and Culture, History of Social Science

About George Steinmetz

I am Professor of Sociology and German Studies, at the University of Michigan. Link to George Steinmetz's Sociology website: www.lsa.umich.edu/soc/directories/show-person.asp?PeopleID=40



Curriculum Vitae
View George Steinmetz's C.V.

Awards
Barrington Moore, Jr. Award, American Sociological Association [2008]
Mary Douglas Award, American Sociological Association [2008]
Allan Sharlin Award, Social Science History Association [2008]
Rackham Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award [2008]
Lewis A. Coser Award, American Sociological Association [2006]
Michigan Humanities Award [2006-2007]

Selected Publications
  • The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
  • The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and its Epistemological Others, edited by George Steinmetz. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
  • "The Colonial State as a Social Field." American Sociological Review 73(4) (August 2008), pp. 589–612.
  • "La sociologie historique en Allemagne et aux Etats-Unis : un transfert manqué (1930-1970)." Genèses, number 71 (June 2008), pp. 123-147.
  • "Harrowed Landscapes: White Ruingazers in Namibia and Detroit and the Cultivation of Memory." Visual Studies, vol. 23, no. 3 (2008), pp. 211-237.
  • "Bourdieu's disavowal of Lacan: Psychoanalytic theory and the concepts of 'habitus' and 'symbolic capital'." Constellations 13:4 (December 2006), pp. 445-464.
  • "Decolonizing German Theory: An Introduction." Postcolonial Studies 9:1 (2006), pp. 3-13.

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