Rob van Ginkel

Rob van Ginkel (1955) graduated in Sociology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (1988). In 1993, he obtained his Ph.D. from the same university with a dissertation on transformations in two fishing villages on the Dutch island of Texel.

As an ASSR postdoc he conducted research concerning the 20th century scholarly and popular debate on Dutch culture and identity. At present, he is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.

His academic interests are in the field of history and anthropology, maritime cultures, European ethnology, national culture and identity, Suburbia and the ethnography of the Netherlands.

His publications include seven books in Dutch and scores of articles in edited volumes and national and international journals. Van Ginkel is currently conducting follow-up research in Texel and is working on a book entitled Trawling in Troubled Waters.

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