Hans Marks

Hans Marks (1956) is anthropologist and since 1997 assistant professor at the Methodology Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He wrote a dissertation on the experience and imagination of social inequality in the brickyard industries in the Netherlands (Deventer, Gouda Quint 2000) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

His research and articles mainly concern processes of proletarianisation, social security, and collective memory among peasants, fishermen and workers in Sweden and the Netherlands. His latest research concerns a comparative project on Kinship and Social Security, instigated by the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthroplogy (Halle/Saale, Germany) and focuses on Swedish family life over the past century.

He is co-editor of Focaal – European Journal of Anthropology.

Within the project ‘Vergleichende Tradierungsforschung’ he organised the interviews with three generation families in the Netherlands, and together with Isabella Matauschek analyses and writes about the results.