Professor Jan Willem Duyvendak

Jan Willem Duyvendak has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam since 2003. His main fields of research currently are belonging, urban sociology, 'feeling at home' and nativism. His latest books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging in Western Europe and the United States (2011) and Crafting Citizenship. Understanding Tensions in a Multi-Ethnic Society (2013, with Menno Hurenkamp and Evelien Tonkens). Recently, Duyvendak was Distinguished Visiting Fellow at...See more

Jan Willem Duyvendak has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam since 2003. His main fields of research currently are belonging, urban sociology, 'feeling at home' and nativism. His latest books include The Politics of Home: Nostalgia and Belonging in Western Europe and the United States (2011) and Crafting Citizenship. Understanding Tensions in a Multi-Ethnic Society (2013, with Menno Hurenkamp and Evelien Tonkens). Recently, Duyvendak was Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). See less