International Research Award of the Max Weber Foundation

Every three years, the Max Weber Foundation awards its International Research Prize. It is awarded to a person from the host countries/regions of the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation who is at the beginning of his/her academic career. In addition to the prize money, the awardee is given the opportunity to publish a relevant publication (usually the dissertation) in Open Access and have it translated into German. The prize is awarded to outstanding researchers who conduct excellent, internationally oriented research in the humanities, social sciences or cultural studies. The International Research Award is endowed with 5,000 euros.

Only the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation are eligible for nomination.

No further nominations are possible at present. The next call for nominations is expected to take place in 2025.


Members of the prize jury:

  • Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert (Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, President of the MWS)
  • Prof. Dr. Judit Árokay (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, member of the Foundation Council)
  • Prof. Dr. Judith Pfeiffer (University of Bonn, Member of the Foundation Board)
  • Dr. Harald Rosenbach (Managing Director of the MWS)
  • Prof. Dr. Kim Siebenhüner (Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Member of the Foundation Board)

If you have any questions, please contact forschungspreis(at)maxweberstiftung.de.

If you would like to send us the nomination documents in encrypted form, you can find more information here.

 

International Research Award of the Max Weber Foundation at the Historisches Kolleg

From 2014-2020, the MWS together with the Historisches Kolleg München awarded the International Research Prize of the Max Weber Foundation at the Historisches Kolleg. The prize has honoured outstanding scholars for their overall work to date, who have rendered exemplary service to internationally oriented research in the humanities, social sciences and cultural studies. The award winners were:

  •      Isabel V. Hull (2014)
  •      Georges Didi-Huberman (2015)
  •      Hélène Miard-Delacroix (2017) 
  •      Włodzimierz Borodziej (2020)