Curriculum vitae
Personal data
Name: Dick Houtman
Year of birth: 1963
Place of birth: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Email: Dick.Houtman[at]kuleuven.be
Dick.Houtman[at]gmail.com
Work address: Center for Sociological Research (CeSO)
University of Leuven
Parkstraat 45, box 3601
Office 02.135
3000 Leuven
BELGIUM
Education
9/1994: PhD sociology (highest honors), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
8/1989: MA sociology (highest honors), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
8/1984: Propaedeutics sociology (highest honors), Erasmus
University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
8/1982: Gymnasium-ß, Dr. F.H. de Bruijne Lyceum, Utrecht,
the Netherlands
Work
10/2013 - present: Senior Full Professor of Sociology of Culture
and Religion, University of Leuven, Belgium
10/2013 - present: Faculty fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS),
Yale University, United States
9/2012 - 9/2013: Visiting research fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology
(CCS), Yale University, United States
6/2007 - 10/2013: Professor of Cultural Sociology, Center for Rotterdam
Cultural Sociology (CROCUS), Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
4/2005 - 6/2007: Associate professor of sociology, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
11/2003: Visiting professor of sociology, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseille, France
1/2000 – 3/2005: Assistant professor of sociology, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1/1996 – 12/1999: Postdoc, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, enabled by an EUR-Fellowship
(Erasmus University) and a Person-Directed Postdoc
Fellowship (NWO)
1/1995 – 8/1995: Visiting research fellow, University of Maryland at
College Park, United States, enabled by a TALENT-
Fellowship (NWO)
9/1991 – 12/1995: Research fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, enabled by an NWO grant for Ph.D.
research and an NWO TALENT-Fellowship
9/1989 – 8/1991: PhD student, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the
Netherlands
9/1984 – 8/1989: Teaching and research assistantships, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, the Netherlands