Marcel van der Linden

• E-mail: mvl@iisg.nl
• Department: Research

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)