PhD Stefan Beljean

Stefan Beljean is a sociologist and works as a senior researcher in the research area of "Academic Change" at INCHER. After studying sociology and philosophy at the University of Konstanz, Stefan earned his PhD at the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. After positions at the Science Center for Social Research Berlin and the University of Heidelberg (Max Weber Institute for Sociology), he has started working at INCHER in Kassel in March 2024. In the research area of “Academic Change” he will work on a research project on the rise of higher education marketing.

• Beljean, Stefan and Julian Hamann (2024) “Social inequality. A neglected topic in Studies of Valuation and Evaluation? In A.K. Krüger, T. Peetz, & H. Schäfer (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society. London: Routledge
• Stefan Beljean (2024) “Amerikanische Elite-Hochschulen und ihre Zulassungskriterien. Zur Rhetorik und organisationalen Funktion ganzheitlicher Bewertungen.“ In: F. Meier, M. Kaufmann, und M. Dorn (Eds.). Organisierte Personenbewertung. Wiesbaden: Springer.
• Hamann, Julian, and Stefan Beljean (2021) “Career Gatekeeping in Cultural Fields.” American Journal for Cultural Sociology. 9(1): 43–69. doi.org/10.1057/s41290-019-00078-7