[2] Besides that, she is a professor in Politics and Culture in the 20th century at the faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.

[2] From 2003 to 2007 Marjan Schwegman was managing director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.

Since 2003, her main work is no longer at the university: from 2003 to 2007 she was director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.

[2] From 2009–2010, she was vice-chairman of the Commissie-Davids (an independent commission supervised by jurist Willibrord Davids, the 'Davids Committee') which looked into the decision-making process for the Dutch support in the Iraq War.

[6] On 18 February 2016, Jet Bussemaker decorated Schwegman with the title officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau).