Klaus Boehnke
is a Full Professor of Social Science Methodology at Jacobs University Bremen. He also is Deputy Chair of the Center for Sociocultural Research at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Building upon a strong social science methodology background, he mostly engages in socialization research, broadly understood. Recently he has conducted cross-cultural research on values, well-being, and social cohesion, funded by the German National Science Foundation (DFG), German federal ministries, and various philanthropies. He has published on a great variety of socialization research topics from different disciplinary perspectives, ranging from educational and personality psychology, political psychology and sociology to media studies and criminology, in leading English-language journals, including Science, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Personality, and the Journal of Marriage and Family, as well as in all leading German social science journals. Boehnke enjoyed extended research and teaching stays at the Australian National University (1987), the University of Toronto (1997/98), and the National University of Singapore (2008/9). He has held numerous officer positions in academic associations: He was Secretary-General of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), 2000-2008; President of the Division of Political Psychology of the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), 2004-2010, and Chair of the German Peace Psychology Association (2005-2013). He currently is President of IACCP. He has been co-recipient of the Gordon Allport Prize of SPSSI, Division 9 of APA, is a Fellow of IAAP, and has received the Fukuhara Award of the International Council of Psychology (ICP).