Niilo Kauppi (Finland)

EDUCATION

• UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, 1991, Doctor of Social Sciences (D.S.Sc.), Thesis title: ATel Quel: la constitution sociale d'une avant-garde.@ Thesis supervisors: Prof. Pierre Bourdieu (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) and Prof. Ilkka Heiskanen (University of Helsinki).
• UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, 1988, Licenciate of Social Sciences.
• ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES, 1986-1990, graduate studies in sociology.
• UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, 1986, Master of Social Sciences. Major in political science.
• UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS II-ASSAS, 1979-1981, undergraduate studies in law.
• LYCÉE FRANCO-FINLANDAIS, 1978, Helsinki. Baccalaureate.

EMPLOYMENT

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (Strasbourg)
  Director of Research (2006)
• ACADEMY OF FINLAND
  Research Fellow 1991-1992; Junior Research Fellow 1993-1996; Senior Fellow 1998-2001; Academy Research Fellow 2001-2006.
• UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
  Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, 1998-; Assistant Professor, 1997-1998.
• UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ
  Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 1995-.

VISITING POSITIONS

• INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES POLITIQUES (Strasbourg)
  Professeur invité, École doctorale européenne, April 2004.
• HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Cambridge)
  Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Fall 1999, 2002-2003.
• INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington)
  Research Associate, Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, 1991-1995; ASLA-Fulbright Research Scholar, 1992-1993.
• ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES (Paris)
  Chercheur invité, Centre de sociologie de l'éducation et de la culture, Spring 1996, 1989, Centre d=études des mouvements sociaux, Spring 1999.
• MAISON DES SCIENCES DE L=HOMME (Paris)
  Maître de conférence associé, Spring 1989.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

1. DEMOCRACY, SOCIAL RESOURCES AND POLITICAL POWER IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
2. EUROPE IN FLAMES. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2001 (editor with Jari Ehrnrooth).
3. THE POLITICS OF EMBODIMENT: HABITS, POWER, AND PIERRE BOURDIEU’S THEORY. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2000.
4. FRENCH INTELLECTUAL NOBILITY: INSTITUTIONAL AND SYMBOLIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE POST-SARTRIAN ERA. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
5. THE MAKING OF AN AVANT-GARDE: TEL QUEL. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
6. VANGUARDS OF MODERNITY: SOCIETY, INTELLECTUALS, AND THE UNIVERSITY. Jyväskylä: Publications of the Research Unit for Contemporary Culture 32, 1992 (editor with Pekka Sulkunen).
7. TEL QUEL : LA CONSTITUTION SOCIALE D’UNE AVANT-GARDE. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, 1991.