Eric Vanhaute#
| Membership Number: | 3778 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ccc.ugent.be/vanhaute |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - present Professor and Full Professor Economic History and World History (History Department, Ghent University)
- 1996 - 1999 Senior Research Leader FWO and Associate professor (Ghent University)
- 1989 - 1996 Postdoctoral Research Assistant (Ghent University)
- 1985 - 1989 PhD Researcher (National Fund for Scientific Research) (Ghent University)
- 2014 (Fall Semester): Visiting Fellow Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University
- 2014 - 2015 Fellow and Guest of the Director at Re:Work - Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University
- 2012 - 2014 Visiting Professor Global History, Institute for Social Economy and Culture, Peking University
- 2011 (Fall Semester): Guest Professor Global Economic History, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien
- 2008 (Fall Semester): Rubens Chair, University of California at Berkeley
- 2004 - 2005 NIAS Fellow-in-Residence, Netherlands Institute for Advances Studies, Wassenaar
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting Researcher Utrecht University (History Department),
- 1991 (Spring Semester) Visiting Researcher SUNY Binghamton (Fernand Braudel Center)
Fields of Scholarship
- Rural history, history of the peasantries
- World history, global studies and world-systems analysis
- History of labour markets and labour strategies of families
- Historical statistics; historical information systems
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Visiting Fellow Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University
- 2014 - 2015 Fellow and Guest of the Director at Re:Work - Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University
- 2012 - 2014 Visiting Professor Global History, Institute for Social Economy and Culture, Peking University
- 2011 Guest Professor Global Economic History, Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien
- 2008-2009 Award of the P.P. Rubens Chair, History Department, University of California at Berkeley
- 2004 – 2005 Appointment as Fellow-in-Residence with the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 1996 – 1997 Researcher Exchange Grant with the Vlaams-Nederlands Comité voor Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur (VNC), Utrecht University
- 1996 - 1999 Appointment as Research Leader with the National Fund for Scientific Research
- 1992 Triennial Social-Economic Award of the Camille Huysmans Foundation, Reward for doctoral thesis
- 1990 Fulbright-Hays Grant. Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilizations, State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY), New York (Visiting Research Fellow)
- 1989 Co-laureate of the History Award of the Gemeentekrediet, Reward for doctoral thesis
