Eva Illouz and Milo Rau | 02.02.2018
The Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz is a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Directrice d'Études at the EHESS in Paris. Her research interests include sociology of culture, sociology of emotions, sociology of capitalism, and the effect of consumerism and mass media on emotional patterns. Illouz is the author of ten books about topics as diverse as romantic love, Oprah Winfrey as cultural form, or emotions in the age of capitalism. Her books have won international awards and have been translated into altogether 23 languages. In 2004, she was invited to deliver the prestigious Adorno lecture series in Frankfurt, Germany and in 2009, Illouz was chosen by the German newspaper, Die Zeit, as one of 12 academics who are most likely to “shape the thought of tomorrow”. She has received the Annaliese Maier Award for Excellence in Research from the Humboldt Foundation and the EMET award, the highest scientific award in Israel. Illouz was a fellow in the “Wissenschaftskolleg” in Berlin and in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Studies, and writes regularly for Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit and Ha’aretz on various subjects such as literature, politics and social affairs.