[1] He currently serves as the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
In addition, he has served as visiting professor at universities in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Thailand.
[citation needed] Jan works on a variety of themes, ranging from development and globalization to cultural studies.
The JC Ruigrok Award of the Netherlands Society of Sciences, 1990 (for Empire and Emancipation: Power and Liberation on a World Scale.
New York, Praeger, 1989) He co-organized 7 international Global studies conferences across the world (Chicago, Dubai, Busan, Rio, Moscow, New Delhi, Shanghai), which led to publications co-edited with local scholars.