Dirk Baecker

Dirk Baecker was born in Karlsruhe in 1955. After studying Sociology in Cologne and Paris, he went on to complete his PhD and habilitation in sociology at the University of Bielefeld under Niklas Luhmann between 1986-1992. He has been awarded a Heisenberg grant by the German Research Foundation and was a visiting scholar at Stanford Univeristy in Palo Alto, CA, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. In 1996 he was made professor of Sociology at Witten/Herdecke University. In 2007, Baecker was made professor of Cultural Theory and Analysis at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. He returned to Witten/Herdecke University in 2015 as professor of Cultural Theory and Management.