Kurrild-Klitgaard holds the degrees of
Ph.D. in
political science,
M.Sc. (
Cand.phil.) in
social science and a
B.A. from the
University of Copenhagen, and an
M.A. in political science from
Columbia University. His current position is as Professor of General and Comparative Political Science at the Department of Political Science,
University of Copenhagen, where he has held various positions since 1991, and where he specializes in political institutions, political economy and American politics, especially issues such as elections, voting systems and constitutions. Before his current appointment, he was professor (2005–06) and associate professor (2000–05) at the Dept. of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark and assistant professor at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Aarhus (1998–2000). He has held visiting appointments at several institutions, including Saint Edmund's College at
University of Cambridge,
Nuffield College at
Oxford University, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at
Columbia University, the Dept. of Economics,
New York University, and the Institute for Humane Studies,
George Mason University. He has served as a member and vice president of the Danish government's National Social Science Research Council and been the representative of Danish social science in the European Science Foundation. Kurrild-Klitgaard is the recipient of the
Fyens Stiftstidende's Research Award (2003), and as a graduate student at
Columbia University he was a
Fulbright Scholar and a Claude R. Lambe Fellow. He was chosen as the University of Copenhagen's "Teacher of the Year" (2007). He has been elected a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London, the
Royal Historical Society, a member of the
Academia Europaea (the European academy of sciences), the
Philadelphia Society and the
Mont Pelerin Society, and has served as vice president of the latter. ==Academic publications==