Richard Sennett
New York, NY // London, UK
Email: richard.sennett@nyu.edu
Biographical Data
- Born: January 1, 1943, USA
- American Citizen, British Citizen
Education
- Harvard University Ph.D., 1969
- University of Chicago B.A., 1964
- The Juilliard School of Music, 1962-63
Current Appointments
- Senior Advisor, UN Program on Cities and Climate Change
- Senior Fellow, Committee on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University
- Visiting Professor of Urban Studies, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chair, Theatrum Mundi
Past Academic Appointments
- Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, New York University
- Professor of Sociology Emeritus, the London School of Economics and Political Science
Professional Engagements
- Chair of the Board of Trustees, Theatrum Mundi 2012-2020
- Co-Chair, United Nations Habitat, Habitat III Forum, 2016
- Advisor, Democratic Party of the United States, 2008, 2012
- Co-Chair, The European Mayors’ Design Council. 2002 – 2018
- Chair, The Cities Programme, The London School of Economics, 1998-2018
- President, The American Council on Work, 1996 – 2001
- Chair, International Committee on Urban Studies, United Nations Development Programme\UNESCO, 1989-93
- Chair, Advisory Committee on Cities, International Social Science Council, 1989-93
- National Vice-President, P.E.N., 1978-1982
- Founder and Director, The New York Institute for the Humanities, 1975-1984
- Director, The Urban Family Study, The Cambridge Institute, 1969-1974
- Co-Director, The Cambridge Institute, 1969-1974
Recent Honors and Awards
- Climate Change Laureate, UNESCO, 2020
- Officer of the British Empire, 2018
- Fellow, British Academy, 2017
- Centennial Medal, Harvard University, 2017
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Buenos Aires, 2013
- Honorary Fellow, The London School of Economics, 2012
- Jeanette Schocken Prize, 2011
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, Cambridge University, 2010
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, Warwick University, 2010
- Spinoza Prize, 2010
- Gambrinus Giuseppe Mazzotti Prize, 2010
- Doctorate Honoris Causa, Loughborough University, 2009
- Tessenow Prize, 2009
- Gerda Henkel Prize, 2008
- European Craft Prize, 2008
- Hegel Prize, 2006
- Helen and Robert Lynd Award for Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2004
- Honorary Doctorate, Loyola University, 2003
- The Berlin Prize for Sociology, 2001
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects
- Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom
- Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations, United States
- Fellow, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, Academiea Europaeae
Some Honors and Awards prior to 2000
- The Amalfi Prize for European Sociology, 1999
- The Friedrich Ebert Award for Sociology, 1999
- Humanities Seminars Professor, Princeton University, 1998
- Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft Professor, Johann- Wolfgang-Goethe Universitat,
- Frankfurt, 1991
- Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1991
- Fellow, Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, 1988
- Yale University, The Henry Luce Lectures, 1986
- Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Harvard Graduate School of Design,
- 1981, 1984-1985
- Ingram-Merrill Award for Fiction, 1983
- Visiting Professor, College de France, 1980-1981
- Sigmund Freud Memorial Lecturer, University College,
- University of London, 1977
- Senior Research Fellowship, National Endowmentforthe Humanities, 1976-1977
- Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1974-78, 1979-80
- Fellow, Guggenheim Foundation, 1973-74
- Fellow, Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and M.I.T., 1967-68
Professional Memberships
- Academy of Social Sciences
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Council of Foreign Relations
- Chatham House
- American Historical Association
- American Studies Association
- American Sociological Association
- British Sociology Association
- International Sociological Association
- Societe Europeenne de Culture
- Tocqueville Society
- Society of Architectural Historians
- Editorial Board, Pequod, 1985 – 1990
- Editorial Board, The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, 1981 —
- Editorial Board, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 1976 —
- Editorial Board, Theory and Society, 1974 – 1981
