Leonard Blussé#
| Membership Number: | 2863 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2010 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.hum.leiden.edu/history/organisation/staff-history/blusse.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - 2013 Visiting professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan.
- 2005 - 2006 Erasmus Professor in Southeast Asian History, History Department, Harvard University
- 2004 - present Professor of Southeast Asian History, (Department of Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures), Leiden University
- 2001 - present Professor of History of Asian-European Relations, (History Department), Leiden University
- 2000 - 2001 Research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar
- 1999 - present Professor of Southeast Asian History, Nanyang Yanjiuyuan 南洋研究院(National Research Institute Southeast Asian Studies) Xiamen University 夏门大学, China
- 1998 - 2001 KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) Extraordinary Professor History of European-Asian Relations, IGEER/CNWS, Leiden University
- 1996 - 1998 Universitair Hoofddocent(Associate Professor), History Department, Leiden University
- 1991 - 1992 Fulbright grant recipient and Research fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center of Historical Studies, Princeton University
- 1987 - 1996 Universitair Docent (Assistant Professor), Leiden University
- 1981 (autumn) Visiting research fellow, on the invitation of Shiryo Hensanjo (Historiographical Institute), Tokyo University, with a grant of Nihon Gakujitsu Shinkokai
- 1980 (autumn) Visiting researcher, on the invitation of the Nanyang Research Institute, Xiamen University, China
- 1978 - 1989 Boardmember Coordination Committee Southeast Asia (WOTRO)
- 1977 - 1987 Research officer and coordinator research on Asian History, Centre for the History of European Expansion (IGEER), Leiden University
- 1975 - 1976 Manager Office of Indonesian Studies and coordinator of the historical research carried out in the framework of the Indonesian-Dutch cultural agreement, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde (KITLV), Leiden
Fields of Scholarship
- Early Modern History of Southeast and East Asia
- History of Overseas Chinese
- Global History
Honours and Awards
- 2003 Member Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem
- 2005 Honorary Research Fellow, Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Japan
- 2005 Bestowed with the Linschoten-Vereeniging Penning
- 2006 Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau
- 2010 Elected member to the Academia Europaea
