Mw.dr. M.L.J.C. (Marlou) Schrover

Function:
  • Senior Lecturer

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2786
E-Mail: m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 201A
 
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/history/staff/schrover.html
Spreekuur / Hours
Dinsdag 13.30 - 14.30 / Tuesday 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm
Fields of interest
history of migration, ethnicity, gender
Curriculum Vitae
Marlou Schrover works as an associate professor in migration history at Leiden University (See: History of International Migration).
She conducts a large NWO-vici project that looks at differences between men and women in migration to the Netherlands after 1945. Other people working on the project are Corrie van Eijl, Tycho Walaard, Nadia Bouras and Charlotte Laarman (See: Website Vici project).
She graduated in journalism in 1979 and in economic and social history in 1986 (both in Utrecht). She received her Ph.D. at Utrecht University in 1991 for her research on labour relations in the food industry. She continued to work at Utrecht University until 2001, when she moved to the ING (Instituut Nederlandse Geschiedenis) in The Hague. From January 2002 she also worked at the International Institute for Social History (in Amsterdam).
Since March 2003 she works at Leiden University. She has published books and articles (see pdfs) on migration, the food industry, entrepreneurship, demography, ethnicity and gender. She has specialised in migration studies. In 2008 she published together with Herman Obdeijn Komen en gaan.Inmmigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 (Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2008).
She is co-editor of the Dutch Journal for Social and Economic History (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) since 1999. She was co-editor of the Dutch Yearbook on Women's History between 1997 and 2002 (Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis). She is a board member of the Dutch Centre for Migration History (Centrum voor Geschiedenis van Migranten). She is co-chair of the Migration and Ethnicity network of the ESSHC. She is the moderator of H-Migration. H-Migration is the international discussion list for migration historians.    

See also: http://home.kpn.nl/schro497/
Publications
Zie: http://home.kpn.nl/schro497/