Prof. Dr. Céline TeneyThe Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, since 1977 jointly awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Ecucation and Research (BMBF), aims at young scholars pursuing excellent research and providing an independent academic record. Céline Teney has now become part of this illustrious circle. She is one of only ten scholars who have been awarded this honor on May 18th, 2016 in Berlin. Ms Teney works as a sociologist at the SOCIUM and is head of the cooperative junior research group focusing on “Winners of Globalization? A Study on the Emergence of a Transnational Elite in Europe”, funded by the German Excellence Initiative.
The international jury selected the ten laureates among 134 proposals. In the award statement the jury praises the wide scope of Ms Teney’s research as well as her application of various different analytical methods. Her research not only focuses on the highly topical questions of the acculturation of ethnic minorities in modern societies but also on issues of transnationalization of elites and other social groups. Moreover, she works on the explanation of recent electoral successes of right-wing extremist parties, among them the German NPD. The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros.
Céline Teney studied sociology and ethnology at the university in Freiburg i.Br., obtained her PhD in social and political sciences in Brussels and then held positions as a research fellow in Brussels, at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University before she joined the faculty at the University of Bremen in 2014.
Further information:
Press release of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Ten Researchers to Receive Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prizes
forschung - Das Magazin der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 1/2016: Hohes Potenzial und herausragende Leistungen, 2016/1, pp. 26-27 (in German)
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