1. Andrei S Markovits is an Arthur F Thurnau Professor and the Karl W Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies at the University of Michigan.
18 Facts About Andrei Markovits
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Andrei Markovits is the author and editor of many books, scholarly articles, conference papers, book reviews and newspaper contributions in English and many foreign languages on topics as varied as German and Austrian politics, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, social democracy, social movements, the European right and the European left.
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Andy Andrei Markovits was born in October 1948 in the west Romanian town of Timisoara.
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Andrei Markovits was raised as the single child of a middle-class Jewish family, speaking German and Hungarian at home.
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Andrei Markovits studied political science, economics, sociology, and business administration.
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Andrei Markovits participated in many of the center's activities and became one of that institution's mainstays over the years.
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Between 1977 and 1983, Andrei Markovits was an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
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Andrei Markovits then became professor in the Department of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz which he chaired until 1995 and where he remained until joining the faculty at the University of Michigan on September 1,1999.
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Andrei Markovits has been awarded many fellowships, scholarships and research grants.
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Andrei Markovits has held academic appointments at a number of universities overseas.
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In June 2008, Andrei Markovits served as the Dr Elizabeth Ortner-Chopin Visiting Professor at Webster University in Vienna, Austria.
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Andrei Markovits has won a number of teaching awards at the institutions with which he was affiliated during his academic career.
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On March 15,2009, Markovits received the coveted Arthur F Thurnau professorship from the University of Michigan.
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Andrei Markovits has advised doctoral dissertations at many major American universities, as well as universities in Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Canada and Israel.
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Andrei Markovits loves all sports with a clear preference for the team sports of basketball, baseball, football as well as soccer.
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Andrei Markovits is a devoted Manchester United and a New York Yankees fan.
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Third, Andrei Markovits published a book entitled From Property to Family: American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion, with the University of Michigan Press.
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Andrei Markovits's writing touches on his interests in sports, dog rescue, the Grateful Dead, and other topics.