Dr. Abram DE SWAAN Distinguished University Professor of Social Science at the University of Amsterdam Chairman, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research
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| studied Political Science at the University of Amsterdam | |
| 1963 | candidaatsexamen (B.A.) cum laude |
| 1966 | doctoraalexamen (M.A.) cum laude |
| 1966-1968 | Harkness grant of the Commonwealth Fund and attended graduate school at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley |
| 1973 | Dissertation (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, "entitled Coalition theories and cabinet formations" (Amsterdam/San Francisco) |
| He was Grotius professor at the New School for Social Research, visiting professor at Columbia University, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the Maison des Sciences de l Homme, Paris, and the Ecole des Sciences Politiques. | |
| He was Einaudi professor at Cornell University, European Union professor at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest | |
| 1973-2001 | Chair of Sociology, University of Amsterdam |
| 1987-1997 | Co-founder and dean of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research |
| 1997-1998 | European Chair at the College de France in Paris |
Mitgliedschaften
| Member of several international editorial boards and of various advisory councils (a.o. Centre d'Études des Recherches Internationales, Paris) | |
| since 1996 Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences | |
| since 2000 Academia Europea de Yuste, Spain. | |
| Academia Europaea, London |
Publikationen
| Numerous articles in scientific journals, cultural reviews and newspapers in the Netherlands and the USA, a.o.: | |
| 1988 In care of the state; Health care, education and welfare in Europe and the USA in the Modern Era. Cambridge/ New York, (translations in Dutch, German, Spanish and French) | |
| 1990 The Management of Normality; Critical Essays in Health and Welfare. Routledge, London/New York | |
| 2001 Human Societies, Polity Press, (translated in Dutch, Swedish and Danish - forthcoming) | |
| 2001 and Words of the world; the global language system, Polity Press; (Dutch translation: Woorden van de Wereld; Prometheus 2002, Hungarian translation: A Nyelvek Társadalma - A globális Nyelvrendszer. Budapest, Hungary: Typotex, 2003) |
Auszeichnungen
| Biennial award of the Holland society for sciences, | |
| Busken Huet essay prize of the City of Amsterdam | |
| Annual prize of the Netherlands circle of political scientists |
