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RBI Director John Torpey to Receive Award for Excellence in International Exchange

April 13, 2023 By Juan Acevedo Archive / Podcast

Presidential Professor John Torpey, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and the European Union Studies Center, will receive an award from the DAAD Alumni Association-USA for Excellence in International Exchange.

The award recognizes Professor Torpey’s long work to organize and support academic exchanges with Germany through the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), or German Academic Exchange Service.

The award will be presented at the Sound Understanding Concert in Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, 881 7th Ave in New York City, on Thursday, April 20, 2023.

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John Torpey is Presidential Professor of Sociology and History and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author or editor of ten books, on topics ranging from East German dissidents and intellectuals, the invention of the passport and state practices in its use, reparations for historical injustices, transatlantic relations, and social and technological change throughout history. His writings have been translated into German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Swedish. He has served in leadership positions for the Eastern Sociological Society, on the editorial boards of Theory and Society and the Journal of Human Rights, and as editor of a book series on “Politics, History, and Social Change,” as well as on review committees for many grant awards and book prizes. He writes a regular column for Forbes.com [forbes.com], and has commented for NPR’s “On the Media,” The Hill, OpenDemocracy, Huffington Post, the BBC, and many others.