Marcel van der Linden

Marcel Marius van der Linden (born 9 October 1952)[1] was director of research at the International Institute of Social History until 2014, is now Senior Researcher at the Institute, and also holds a professorship dedicated to the history of social movements at the University of Amsterdam.

Van der Linden was elected the first president of the International Social History Association, founded in Sydney in 2005 with current residency in Amsterdam.

Van der Linden is widely recognized in his field for his approach of a "global labour history" which he has developed since the 1990s.

Marcel van der Linden received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo in 2008.

He is also the recipient of the René Kuczynski Prize (Berlin/Vienna 2009), and the Bochumer Historikerpreis (2014), As author: As editor: