Marco H.D. van Leeuwen#


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.

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