David Pontoppidan is a 23 year old graduate student of sociology who is finishing his MA at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, specializing in organizational sociology, cultural sociology and the nature of political discourse.
His interests include classical sociology, cultural sociology, entrepreneurship, the nature of the firm, globalization, organizational sociology, immigration, the rise of early capitalism, cross fields between social science and cognitive science, urban poverty and crime and the emergence of the modern state.
Simultaneous to studying, David has been working full-time in various think tanks where he has done research on immigration, criminology, environmental issues and helped organize +20 large-scale conferences with an academic focus and taught in several settings including with funds from the Danish Ministry of Environmental Affairs and the Danish Foreign Ministry. He is currently taking a short sabbatical from the blog as he spends day and night applying for a Ph.D. for next fall.
You can contact him at Esberndavidpontoppidan@gmail.com
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
University of Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark. Aug 2004-Jun 2007
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology.
Yale University – New Haven, CT. USA. Aug – Dec 2008
Exchange graduate student in Sociology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Main focus areas: Institutional and behavioural economics, cultural sociology, language, social change.
University of Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark Aug 2007 – Nov 2009 (expected)
Masters of Arts, Sociology.
Main focus areas: Organizational sociology, sociology of knowledge, political communication, cultural sociology, classical sociology.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
Mackinac Center for Public Policy – Midland, MI. USA.
June 2009 – present
Koch Summer Fellow
District Court of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jan 2008 – present (on leave)
Appointed lay judge
CEPOS (Center for Political Studies) Copenhagen, Denmark.
Aug 2006 – Aug 2008
Research assistant
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS:
2009 Charles G. Koch Summer Fellowship Recipient.
2009 Contributor with chapter on Hayek in forthcoming anthology, published by Tiderne Skifter.
2009 Contributor to book forthcoming on CEPOS Press – “De unge, de vilde, de borgerlige”
2008 Recipient of the Denmark America Foundation Scholarship.
2007 Recipient of the University of Copenhagen Travel Scholarship.
2007 Recipient of the Libertas Travel Scholarship
2007 Proof-reader on two books – “Amerikanske Tilstande” (American Conditions), Henrik Fogh Rasmussen and “Den retfærdige ulighed” (Is inequality justified?), Martin Ågerup.
2006 Named by Berlingske Tidende, a national newspaper, as “One of 10 rising talents on the way up”.
