Awards & Winners

Richard Sennett

Date of Birth 01-January-1943
Place of Birth Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Sociologist, Professor, Author
Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett has studied social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart, and in 2008 was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, worth 100,000 Euros, by the Gerda Henkel Foundation of Düsseldorf, Germany. He is married to sociologist Saskia Sassen since 1987.

Awards by Richard Sennett

Check all the awards nominated and won by Richard Sennett.

1973


Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada
(Sociology)

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs The hidden injuries of class