Karel Davids#
| Membership Number: | 2930 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor Emeritus
- 1994 Professor of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Economics, VU University Amsterdam
- 1988 - 1994 Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at University of Leiden
- 1978 - 1988 Assistant Professor of Social History, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic and social history
- History of technology
- Global history
- Maritime history
- History of knowledge
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Visiting Queen Wilhelmina Professor, Columbia University, New York
- 2003 Elected as Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 1992 - 1993 Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar
- 1985 Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize, Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Haarlem
