Sonja de Leeuw#
| Membership Number: | 4589 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uu.nl/staff/default.aspx?lng=NL&Profielpagina=JSdeLeeuw&t=0 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Present Co-founder and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Television in Transition, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (with professor Eggo Müller)
- 2010 Visiting scholar, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2010 Visiting scholar, University of Stockholm, Sweden
- 2006 Visiting scholar, University of Stockholm,Sweden
- 2002 Visiting Scholar of the Year, University of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- 2002 - present full professor and chair, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
- 1981 - 1982 Visiting professor in Theatre and Film History and Dramaturgy, the Academy of Design, Bielefeld, Germany
- 1981 Lecturer in Audiovisual Education (Film history, Video practice) at the Academy of Arts, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- 1980 - 1981 Researcher at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- European television and media culture in an international context
- History and theory of television in relation to other media, genres and production practices
- History of European television
- Television as heritage/Digital television heritage
- Digital Humanities
- Diasporic media and representations of ethnicity
Honours and Awards
- Project awards:
- 2013 EUscreen receives FIAT/IFTA Honourable Mention for ‘Most Innovative Use ofArchive’
- 2012 EUscreen wins Silver Lovie Award in category Television
- 2012 EUscreen nominated for Focal International Awards for best use of footage on non-television platforms
