Catia Antunes#
| Membership Number: | 5199 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/catia-antunes |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4343-029X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Professor History of Global Economic Networks: Merchants, Entrepreneurs and Empires, Leiden University, NL
- 2013 - 2016 Associate Professor Economic and Social History, Leiden University, NL
- December 2013- March 2014 Fellow École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, FR
- 2008 - 2016 Assistant Professor Economic and Social History, Leiden University, NL
- 2007 - 2008 Fulbright Research Fellow, Yale University, USA
- 2003 - 2007 Assistant Professor Economic and Social History Leiden University, NL
- 1999 - 2003 Assistant Researcher (AIO), Leiden University, NL
Fields of Scholarship
- Social network theory and freedom of agency
- Global history and transformative connectivities
- Early modern economic and social history
- Entrepreneurs, firms and corporations in the building of empires
- Transnationalism, competition, cooperation and empire building
- Comparative history of empires
- Globalization and the rise of the West/Great Divergence
Honours and Awards
- 2017 - 2021 Vrije Competitie Grant 'Resilient Diversity', The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (with Ulba Bosma, Karwan Fatah-Black and Matthias van Rossum), total: 750.000€
- 2015 - 2017 Associated Partner, Leverhulme Trust Network: 'Global Nodes, Global Orders', Oxford University, UK (coordiantion James Belich and John Darwin)
- 2014 - 2015 Main Partner Marie Curie Consortium 'ForSeaDiscovery', total project: 4.978.987€ (of which 296.783€ at Leiden Univ)
- 2013 - 2018 Full Member Young Academy of Europe
- 2013 - 2018 Starting Grant, ERC, 'Fight', 1.500.000€
- 2012 - 2016 VIDI Grant, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 750.000€
- 2012 - 2016 ASPASIA Grant, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 100.000€
- 2006 Postdoctoral Grant, Portuguese Science Foundation, 24.000€
