Marcel van der Linden

Fellow

CV

  • Senior Researcher, International Institute of Social History (from 1 September 2014)
  • Research Director, International Institute of Social History (until 31 August 2014)
  • President, International Social History Association (2005-10, 2010-15, 2015-20).
  • Vice-President, International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), Vienna, Austria.
  • Member, Steering Committee, European Labour History Network (2013-).
  • Member, Steering Committee, Global Labour History Network (2015-).
  • Honorary Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, UK.
  • Concurrent Professor, University of Nanjing, China (2009-12).
  • Member, Scientic Committee, International Panel on Social Progress (2014-17).
  • Honorary Member, network “History of Societies and Socialism”.
  • Member, Board, European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), Leipzig.
  • Vice-President, Stiftung für Sozialgeschichte, Bremen.
  • Chair, Editorial Committee, International Review of Social History, Amsterdam and Cambridge, UK.
  • Associate Editor International Labor and Working-Class History, New York.
  • Editorial Adviser Revista Mundos do Trabalho (Brazil).
  • Editorial Adviser Revista História Social, Campinas, Brazil.
  • Editorial adviser Historical Materialism. Research in Critical Marxist Theory, London and Leiden.
  • Editorial adviser Peripherie. Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt, Münster.
  • Editorial Adviser Moving the Social. Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, Institut für soziale Bewegungen, Bochum.
  • Member, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, Karl-Lamprecht-Gesellschaft, Leipzig.
  • Co-Editor Istorija Sotsialnaja, Moskow, Russian Federation.
  • Corresponding editor Labour History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
  • Corresponding editor Historia Social, Spain.
  • Corresponding editor Labour History Review, [British] Society for the Study of Labour History.
  • Member, Advisory Board Brood & Rozen. Tijdschrift voor de Geschiedenis van Sociale Bewegingen, Ghent.
  • Advisory Editor, Cambridge World History (7 volumes) (2009-2015).
  • Corresponding editor Soathar (Irish Labour History Society), since 2001.
  • Member International Advisory Board Labour/Le Travail, Canadian Committee on Labour History.
  • Corresponding editor International Newsletter of Historical Studies on Comintern, Communism and Stalinism, Germany.
  • Series editor Studies in Global Social History, Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Series co-editor Historical Materialism Book Series, Leiden and Boston, USA: Brill Academic Publishers.
  • Series editor, International Studies in Social History, Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements, New York: Palgrave.

Honours

  • Arvind N. Das Memorial Lecture, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, India, 2003.
  • Doctor philosophiae honoris causa, University of Oslo, 2008.
  • René Kuczynski Prize, Berlin/Vienna 2009.
  • Chaire Marcel Liebman, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2009-10.
  • Bochumer Historikerpreis 2014.

Expert assessments

Assessment of grant applications for:

  • Centre for Advanced Study (Norway)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany)
  • Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria)
  • Fonds de recherche Société et culture (Quebec)
  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen (Belgium)
  • Guggenheim Foundation (USA)
  • National Research Foundation (South Africa)
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek NWO (The Netherlands)
  • National Science Foundation (USA)
  • Royal Society of Canada
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Switzerland)
  • South African Research Chairs Initiative Programme
  • Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany).

Assessment of institutions:

  • Chair of the committee for the evaluation of archeological and historical research at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2009)
  • Member of the committee for the evaluation of the Institut für Soziale Bewegungen, Bochum, Germany (2010)
  • Member of the German Excellence Initiative selection committee GS16 (2012)

Publications: Marcel van der Linden – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

 IISH Staff | Marcel van der Linden | Photo by Martin van Welzen