Sebastian Kohl appointed professor at Freie Universität Berlin
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In February 2022, Sebastian Kohl takes up his post as Professor of Sociology at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies (JFKI) at Freie Universität Berlin. Kohl was a senior researcher in Jens Beckert’s Economic Sociology Project Area from 2017. His research interests are comparative-historical sociology, housing, finance and insurance, and urban sociology. His most recent research at the MPIfG centered around the political economy of the private insurance industry. Previously, Kohl had been a doctoral researcher at the IMPRS-SPCE and a postdoctoral researcher at the MPIfG.