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Heiko Beyer
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Institute for the Social Sciences
Universitätsstr. 1
42119 Düsseldorf, Germany
Phone: +49 211 81 12429
Fax: +49 211 81 12263
Email: [email protected]
Born: February 18, 1981—Zschopau, Germany
Nationality: German
Current Position
Akademischer Oberrat auf Zeit (Assistant Professor), Institute for the Social Sciences, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Areas of Specialization
Political Sociology; Social Theory; Empirical Research Methods; Experimental Designs
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Previous Positions
2014-2015
Akademischer Rat a.Z. (Assistant Professor), Department of Sociology, University of Wuppertal
2013-2014
Research Associate, Institute of Sociology, University of Bern (Switzerland)
2012
Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan (USA)
2010-2014
Research Associate, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (Chair:
Rural Sociology, Prof. Dr. Ulf Liebe), University of Göttingen
2010-2012
Research Associate in the project “Anti-Americanism in Germany” (Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Head: Prof. Dr. Ulf Liebe), University of Göttingen
2009
Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, (Chair: Sociological Theory, Prof. Dr. Thomas
Voss), University of Leipzig
2009
Research Associate in the project “Fairness and Status among Juveniles” (DFG, Head: Dr.
Ulf Liebe), University of Leipzig
2006-2009
Student Assistant, Institute of Sociology (Chair: Sociological Theory, Prof. Dr. Thomas
Voss), University of Leipzig
Education
2015
Habilitation (Venia Legendi in Sociology), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Thesis (cumulative): “Grundlagen, Grenzen und Geltungsbedingungen zivilgesellschaftlicher
Antidiskriminierungsnormen. Einige Überlegungen und empirische Studien” (Foundations, Limits and Validity Conditions of Norms of Antidiscrimination in Civil Society), Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Annette Schnabel, Prof. Dr. Michael Baurmann, Prof. Dr. Werner
Bergmann)
2013
Dr. disc. pol. in Sociology, University of Göttingen (summa cum laude)
Thesis: “Soziologie des Antiamerikanismus. Zur Theorie und Wirkmächtigkeit spätmodernen Unbehagens” (Sociology of Anti-Americanism: On Theory and Impact of Late Modern
Discontent), Supervisors: Prof. Dr. h.c. Andrei S. Markovits, Prof. Dr. Ulf Liebe, Ph.D.,
Prof. Dr. Steffen Kühnel
2009
M.A. in Sociology, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies, University of Leipzig (with distinction)
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Grants
2014
Publication grant of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (4.725 Euro)
2012
Fulbright grant for a six-month visiting scholar position at the Department of Political
Science, University of Michigan (9.600 Euro)
2010-2013
DAAD travel grants for international conferences (3.600 Euro)
Publications & Talks
Journal Articles (peer reviewed)
accepted
Ulf Liebe, Veronika A. Andorfer & Heiko Beyer: Preis, Moral und ethischer Konsum: Ein
natürliches Feldexperiment mit Nachbefragung zum Kauf von ökologischen Produkten.
Berliner Journal für Soziologie.
2015
Heiko Beyer (2015): Theorien des Antisemitismus. Eine Systematisierung. Kölner Zeitschrift
für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 67 (3): 573–589.
2015
Heiko Beyer & Ulf Liebe (2015): Three Experimental Approaches to Measure the Social
Context Dependence of Prejudice Communication and Discriminatory Behavior. Social
Science Research 49: 343–355.
2014
Heiko Beyer & Ulf Liebe (2014): Anti-Americanism in Europe: Theoretical Mechanisms
and Empirical Evidence. European Sociological Review 30 (1): 90–106.
2013
Heiko Beyer & Ulf Liebe (2013): Antisemitismus heute: Zur Messung aktueller Erscheinungsformen von Judenfeindlichkeit mithilfe des faktoriellen Surveys. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 42 (3): 186–199.
2010
Heiko Beyer & Ivar Krumpal (2010): “Aber es gibt keine Antisemiten mehr”: Eine experimentelle Studie zur Kommunikationslatenz antisemitischer Einstellungen. Kölner Zeitschrift
für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 62 (4): 681–705.
2010
Heiko Beyer & Ulf Liebe (2010): Antiamerikanismus und Antisemitismus: Zum Verhältnis
zweier Ressentiments. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 39 (3): 215–232.
Books
2014
Heiko Beyer (2014), Soziologie des Antiamerikanismus. Zur Theorie und Wirkmächtigkeit
spätmodernen Unbehagens. Campus.
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Book Chapters
accepted
Heiko Beyer: Anti-Americanism, in: George Ritzer (Ed.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of
Sociology. John Wiley & Sons.
2016
Heiko Beyer & Annette Schnabel: Zivilgesellschaft, in: Johannes Kopp & Anja Steinbach
(Hg.), Grundbegriffe der Soziologie, 385–388. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
2014
Heiko Beyer (2014): Standortnationalismus und Antisemitismus: Eine Verhältnisbestimmung, in: Sebastian Voigt und Heinz Sünker (Eds.), Arbeiterbewegung – Nation – Globalisierung: Bestandsaufnahmen einer alten Debatte, 178–201. Velbrück.
2013
Heiko Beyer & Ivar Krumpal (2013): The Communication Latency of Antisemitic Attitudes:
An Experimental Study, in: Charles Asher Small (Ed.), Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of
Modernity, 83–96. Brill/Nijhoff.
Book reviews
2011
Heiko Beyer (2011): “Antisemitismus als negative Leitidee der Moderne. Sozialwissenschaftliche
Theorien im Vergleich” von Samuel Salzborn. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 63 (4): 682–684.
Talks
2015
Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Data on the Rise of Global Antisemitism, 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association, August 25-28, 2015 in Prague, Czech
Republic.
2015
Using Factorial Surveys and Stated Choice Experiments to Investigate Discriminatory Attitudes and Preferences, 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, July
13-17, 2015 in Reykjavik, Island (with Ulf Liebe).
2015
Religion and Weltanschauung: The Politics of Religion and the Religiosity of the Political,
Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, April 15-17, 2015 in Glasgow,
Schottland (with Annette Schnabel).
2015
Ursachen und Verbreitung negativer Einstellungen zu Juden: Ein internationaler Vergleich, Forschungskolloquium des Instituts für Soziologie, Universiät Leipzig, February 03,
2015 in Leipzig.
2014
Using Factorial Surveys and Stated Choice Experiments to Investigate Discriminatory Attitudes and Preferences, XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 13-19, 2014 in Yokohama, Japan.
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2014
Best Friends make the Best Enemies. Zur Gegenwart und Funktion des deutschen Antiamerikanismus, HU Berlin, June 18, 2014 in Berlin (with Tobias Jaecker).
2014
The Transnational Civil Sphere and the Construction of the Other: Reflections on the New
Cosmopolitanism’s Particularism, 7th International Critical Theory Conference, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, May 08-10, 2014 in Rome, Italy.
2013
Determinanten antisemitischer Kommunikation: Ergebnisse eines faktoriellen Surveys,
research colloquium of the Institute of Sociology, University of Bern, December 10, 2013
in Bern, Switzerland.
2013
Ressentiments gegen Amerika: Zur Logik antiamerikanischer Welterklärungen und Projektionen, research colloquium of the Department of Sociology, University of Wuppertal,
December 03, 2013 in Wuppertal.
2013
Der Hass auf das Glück der anderen: Gesellschaftliche Rationalisierung, Affektkontrolle
und Ressentiment, Conference: “Ohnmächtige Sehnsucht. Zum Verlust utopischen Denkens
in der Spätmoderne”, FU Berlin, Institute of Philosophy, November 01-03, 2013 in Berlin.
2013
American “Götterdämmerung”: Reflections and Data on German Anti-Americanism, 37th
Conference of the German Studies Association, October 03-06, 2013 in Denver, USA.
2013
On the Relationship between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Data, 11th Conference of the European Sociological Association, August 28-31, 2013 in Turin, Italy (with Ulf Liebe).
2013
Zur Theorie des Antiamerikanismus, Forschungskolloquium des Historischen Seminars
der University of Münster, July 17, 2013 in Münster.
2013
Die Messung antisemitischer Einstellungen mittels experimenteller Designs: Drei Beispielstudien, research colloquium of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, TU Berlin,
February 13, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.
2012
Anti-Americanism in Europe, Workshop on American Politics, University of Michigan,
Oktober 5, 2012.
2012
Discussant at the Workshop of the Hans Böckler Foundation: “Arbeiterbewegung – Nation – Globalisierung”, February 15-17, 2012 in Wuppertal, Germany.
2011
Die Messung antisemitischer Einstellungen mithilfe experimenteller Designs: Drei Beispielstudien, research colloquium of the Institute of Sociology, LMU München, December 15,
2011 in Munich, Germany.
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2011
The needle in the haystack or how to find something that does not want to be found: New
approaches to study anti-Semitism, 10th Conference of the European Sociological Association, September 7-10, 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland (with Ulf Liebe).
2011
The Impact of Question Context on the Measurement of Anti-Semitic Attitudes: An Experimental Survey, 4th Conference of the European Survey Research Association, July 18-22,
2011, Lausanne, Switzerland (with Ivar Krumpal).
2011
Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Comparison of Britain, France, Germany, and Poland,
18th International Conference of the Council for European Studies, June 20-22, 2011 in
Barcelona, Spain (with Ulf Liebe).
2011
Anti-Americanism in Europe: A Comparison of Britain, France, Germany, and Poland,
12th International Conference of the European Union Studies Association, March 3-5, 2011
in Boston, USA (with Ulf Liebe).
2010
”But there are no longer any anti-Semites”: An experimental study on the communication
latency of anti-Semitic attitudes, International Association for the Study of Antisemitism
(IASA) Inaugural Annual Conference:¿‘Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity”, August 23-25, 2010 at Yale University, New Haven, USA (with Ivar Krumpal).
2010
Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Findings
on the Relationship of Two Resentments. 17th Annual International Conference of the
Council for European Studies, April 15-17, 2010 in Montreal, Canada (with Ulf Liebe).
Teaching
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Winter Term
2015/16
”‘Einführung in die Methoden der Sozialwissenschaften. Teil 1”’, Lecture, Bachelor, 2 SWS
Winter Term
2015/16
”‘Soziologie der Menschenrechte”’, Seminar, Master, 2 SWS
Winter Term
2015/16
”‘Zur Messung gesellschaftlichen Wandels mithilfe des World Value Surveys”’, Research
Seminar, Bachelor, 4 SWS
Summer Term
2015
”‘Theorien sozialer Bewegungen”’, Seminar, Master, 2 SWS
Summer Term
2015
”‘Zur Messung von Diskriminierung mittels experimenteller Designs”’, Research Seminar,
Bachelor, 4 SWS
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University of Wuppertal
Winter Term
2014/15
“Theorien der Zivilgesellschaft”, Seminar, Master, 2 SWS (with Annette Schnabel).
Winter Term
2014/15
“Transnationale Solidarität”, Seminar, Bachelor, 2 SWS.
Winter Term
2014/15
“Computergestützte quantitative Datenanalyse”, Seminar, Bachelor, 4 SWS.
Summer Term
2014
“Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten und Forschungspraxis”, Seminar, Master, 2 SWS (with Thomas
Heinze).
Summer Term
2014
“Computergestützte quantitative Datenanalyse”, Seminar, Bachelor, 2 SWS.
University of Bern
Fall Term
2013/14
“Theorien sozialer Bewegungen”, Lecture, Bachelor, 2 SWS.
University of Göttingen
Summer Term
2013
“Experimente in den Sozialwissenschaften”, Seminar, Master, 4 SWS.
Winter Term
2012/13
“Einführung in die Theorien und Methoden der Soziologie”, Seminar, Master, 4 SWS.
Winter Term
2011/12
“Ökonomie oder Moral?”, Research Seminar, Bachelor, 2 SWS (with Ulf Liebe und Veronika
Andorfer).
Summer Term
2011
“Unternehmensgründung und Unternehmenserfolg in der Landwirtschaft”, Seminar, Master, 4 SWS (with Ulf Liebe).
Summer Term
2011
“Ökonomie oder Moral?”, Research Seminar, Bachelor, 2 SWS (with Ulf Liebe und Veronika
Andorfer).
Winter Term
2010/11
“Modernisierung und ländlicher Raum”’, Seminar, Master, 2 SWS.
Summer Term
2010
“Theorien sozialer Bewegungen”, Seminar, Master, 2 SWS.
University of Leipzig
Winter Term
2007/08
“Grundzüge der Soziologie I”, Tutorial, Bachelor, 2 SWS.
Winter Term
2006/07
“Grundzüge der Soziologie I”, Tutorial, Bachelor, 2 SWS.
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Other Professional Activities
Editorial
Consulting Editor, Soziopolis, since 2014
Memberships
European Sociological Association
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie
Reviewer
Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, American
Journal of Political Science, Human Studies, International Studies Quarterly
Last updated: February 1, 2016
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