Abram De Swaan#
| Membership Number: | 1996 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 2000 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.deswaan.com |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 Director Academía Europea de Yuste (Spain)
- 2001 Distinguished Research professor of social science, University of Amsterdam (emeritus 2007)
- 1997-1998 Chaire Europénne Collège de France
- 1973 Ph.D. cum laude University of Amsterdam; Professor of sociology, University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative history of the welfare state
- World system of languages (political sociology and political economy)
- Comparative study of mass annihilation (genocide)
Honours and Awards
- 1976 biennial award for the social sciences of the Holland Society of Sciences
- 1983 City of Amsterdam literary (Busken Huet) award for essays
- 1989 Annual award of the Netherlands Cercle for Political Science
- 2008 Triennial Netherlands national literary (PC Hooft) award for essays
- Honorary 1st dan in Kyokoshinkai karate
