Prof. Dr. Steffen Mau

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4771-1673

Steffen Mau is Professor of Macrosociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He received
his diploma from the Free University Berlin and his PhD from the European University
Institute (EUI) in Florence. For more than ten years, he worked as Professor of Political
Sociology at the University of Bremen. He was member of the Council of the German
Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat, 2012-2018) and is member of the
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science. Recent publications are: Inequality, Marketization
and the Majority Class. Why did the European Middle Classes accept Neoliberalism? (2015,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), The Metric Society. On the Quantification of the Social
(2019, Cambridge: Polity); Lütten Klein. Leben in der ostdeutschen
Transformationsgesellschaft (2019, Berlin: Suhrkamp), Sortiermaschinen. Die Neuerfindung der Grenze im 21. Jahrhundert (2021, München: C.H. Beck).

Organisational Affiliations

Macro Sociology

Projects

01/2022 - 12/2025	CRC 1265/2: The Borders of the World II: Conflicts and Tensions in the Formation of Macro-Territorial Borders (SP C01)
10/2021 - 09/2028	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2021
09/2019 - 08/2028	RTG 2458: The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy (DYNAMICS)
09/2019 - 02/2024	RTG 2458/1: The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy (DYNAMICS)
09/2019 - 08/2028	RTG 2458: The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy (DYNAMICS)
01/2018 - 12/2021	CRC 1265/1: The Borders of the World: Processes of De- and Rebordering in a Global Perspective (SP C01)
10/2015 - 09/2019	RG 1539/2: EU-Professionalism: A Sociological Study of the Professionalization of EU Expertise (SP 05)
05/2015 - 09/2015	FG 1539/1: Europa-Professionalismus: Eine wissenssoziologische S
04/2015 - 10/2018	Welfare State Futures: Our Children's Europe