Justin J. W. Powell

Justin J.W. Powell is Professor of Sociology of Education and Head of Department of Social Sciences at the University of Luxembourg. After beginning his career at the Social Science Research Council (NYC), he was Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington, DC; the London School of Economics and Political Science; and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). In 2006, he received the Irving K. Zola Award of the Society for Disability Studies for Barriers to Inclusion: Special Education in the US and Germany (Routledge 2011/2016). His book Comparing Special Education: Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes (Stanford University Press, 2011), written with John G. Richardson, was awarded an Outstanding Book Award by the American Educational Research Association (Division B) in 2012. The Century of Science: The Global Triumph of the Research University (Emerald, 2017), edited with David P. Baker and Frank Fernandez, received the Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education from the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2017 and the PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences: Education Theory from the Association of American Publishers in 2018. Before moving to Luxembourg, he taught sociology and education at the Universities of Göttingen and Hanover and the Free University Berlin, Germany. He has been visiting lecturer in the UK (University of Oxford), Germany (Bielefeld, Göttingen), Switzerland (Fribourg, Zurich), and Sweden (Gothenburg).