Honors and Distinctions
Here we celebrate the achievements of SASE members by highlighting the honors and distinctions that have been bestowed upon them during the past year.
Jens Beckert
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz PrizeHuge congratulations are in order for SASE mainstay Jens Beckert, who has just been awarded the 2.5M € Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize – Germany’s highest scientific award. This hefty sum is to be put toward further research, which we look forward to learning about. Beckert is one of the few social scientists to receive this honor, which has historically favored natural and formal sciences.
Michèle Lamont
Erasmus PrizeThree cheers for Michèle Lamont, who received the prestigious Erasmus Prize from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation in the Netherlands for her devoted contribution to social science research into the relationship between knowledge, power and diversity. A program of activities was organized for the occasion on the theme of ‘Knowledge, Power and Diversity’, and the King and Queen of the Netherlands presented Lamont with the prize in November 2017.
Oleg Komlik
2017 Young Global ChangerOleg Komlik (College of Management Academic Studies, Israel) was selected by G20’s Research and Policy Advice Network as one of the 2017 Young Global Changers for founding and running the Economic Sociology and Political Economy global online community aimed at disseminating the insights of socio-political research on economy to the public and academics.