WINFRIED THAA

Prof. Dr. Winfried Thaa
Department of Political Science
University of Trier

Date and Place of Birth:February 28, 1952, in Tuttlingen (Federal Republic of Germany)      






Education and Professional Career:

1971-1977                    Student of Political Science, Philosophy and German Philology at the University of Tübingen.
                                     State Examination in Tübingen 1977.

1974-1975                    Student at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University for "Advanced International Studies"

1978-1980                    Doctoral Dissertation in Political Science at the University of Tübingen on “The Socio-Economic Foundation of Bureaucratic Rule during Soviet
                                     Industrialization”

1982                              Defense of the doctoral thesis („summa cum laude“)                                      

1982-1984                  Teacher Trainee at Gymnasium (High School) from 1982-1984

1985-1991                  Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science        
                                     at Tübingen University

Summer 1987               Visiting Professor at the "Graduate School of International Relations" in Denver, Colorado

1988-1991                    Research-Project on „Societal Differentiation and Legitimacy-Crisis in the GDR“ at the University of Tübingen

1991-1993                    Visiting Professor for Political Theory at Tübingen University
 
1994-1997                    DAAD Visiting Associate Professor at the
                                     University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

1996                             Habilitation in Political Science at the University of Tübingen.
                                     “The Rebirth of the Political. Civil Society and Legitimacy-Conflict in the Revolutions of 1989“
 
1997-1998                    Grant of the DAAD for a research-Project on „Postcommunist Transformation and Democratic Theory”

1998-2002                    Visiting Professor for Political Science at the University of Trier

Since 2002                   Tenured Professor for Political Science (Political Theory) at the University of Trier

2003-2006                    "Prodekan" and "Dekan" (Dean) of the Faculty for History, History of Art, Archeology and Political Science

Since 2004                   Direction of the Research Project "The Political Representation of Migrants and Poor People" within the Collaborative Research Centre of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (DFG).