Former Institute Fellow Wins Holberg Prize
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. (Courtesy: Hebrew University) Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the Institute in 2001, has won the 2006 Holberg International Memorial Prize for his contributions to sociological and historical understandings of social change and modernization. His work, which spans several decades, examines the relations between culture, belief systems, and political institutions in an array of contexts, from present- day Israel and Japan to the foundatio...