Marco H.D. van Leeuwen#
| Membership Number: | 3658 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/mhdvanleeuwen |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Professor of Historical Sociology, department of Sociology, Utrecht University. & Honorary Research Fellow International Institute for Social History Amsterdam
- 2005 - 2009 Professor of Historical Sociology, department of Sociology, Utrecht University. `Bijzonder HL’ James Coleman Chair
- 1996 - 2009 Senior researcher International Institute for Social History/Netherlands Economic History Archives, Amsterdam
- 1995 - 1996 Post-doc. N.W. Posthumus Institute, Graduate School for Economic and Social History, Utrecht University
- 1994 - 1995 Post-doc. department of Sociology, Utrecht University
- 1991 - 1994 Researcher (`Akademie-onderzoeker’), Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1990 - 1991 Visiting fellow History department, UC Berkeley and New School for Social Research, New York
Fields of Scholarship
- Social inequality 1500 to the present
- Social solidarity, incl. philanthropy and mutualism
- INGO's and social movements
Honours and Awards
- 1993 - present Member Board of Directors of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN), currently vice-chair, major grants:
- 1996 - 1999 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-Middelgroot) (545 k€)
- 2000 - 2002 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-Middelgroot) (340 k€)
- 2002 - 2007 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-Groot, Life Courses in Context) (3685 k€)
- 2010 - 2014 Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO-Middelgroot, Linking historical lives (LinkedLives) (426 k€)
- 2000 - present Chair Social Inequalities Network, European Social Science History Conferences (with Lynn Lees).
- 2002 - 2007 VIDI research grant (comparable to ERC Consolidator Grant), Arts and Humanities (GW), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
- 2007 - 2013 Coordinating Utrecht University’s designated multidisciplinary research focus area “The Origins and Impact of Institutions: Local, National and European” (with B. van Bavel and R. Widdershoven).
- 2008 - 2014 Research programme Giving in the Golden Age (GIGA), Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (with L. Heerma van Voss)
- 2009 - 2014 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant “Towards Open Societies? Trends, Variations and Driving Forces of Intergenerational Social Mobility in Europe over the Past Three Centuries”, http://www.towardsopensocieties.org
- 2012 - present Member Advisory Board of the Scandinavian Economic History Review.
- 2012 - present Member International Advisory Board of the European Social Science History Conference.
- 1990 - present Referee: American Journal of Sociology; Continuity and Change; Demographic Research; Economic History Review; European Economic History Review; Explorations in Economic History; International Review of Social History, Scandinavian Economic History Review; NVS: Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.
- 1990 - present Referee Science Councils: Australia (International assessor ARC, Australian Research Council), Belgium (FWO), Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands (NWO), the USA.
