Karel Davids#
| Membership Number: | 2930 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.let.vu.nl/en/about-the-faculty/academic-staff/staff-listed-alphabetically/staff-a-d/prof-dr-c-a-davids/index.asp |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994 - present Professor of Economic and Social History, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Economics, VU University Amsterdam
- 1988-1994 Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at University of Leiden
- 1978-1988 Assistant Professor of Social History, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic and social history
- Global history
- History of technology
- History of knowledge
- Maritime history
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Visiting Queen Wilhelmina Professor, Columbia University, New York
- 2003 Elected as Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 1992-1993 Fellow Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Wassenaar
- 1985 Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize, Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Haarlem
