| 1 | Name: | Dr. Jan de Vries | |
| Institution: | University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Year Elected: | 2002 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1943 | ||
Jan de Vries was born in the Netherlands during World War II, emigrated with his parents to the United States at the age of four, and was raised in Minnesota, where he attended the public schools in Deephaven and Hopkins. His higher education took place at Columbia University (A.B., History, 1965) and Yale (Ph.D., History, 1970). He is married to Jeannie Green de Vries, a high school Latin teacher; they have two children, Nicolas and Saskia. At Yale, Dr. de Vries followed a joint program in Economic History (joint between History and Economics), studying with William Parker and Harry Miskimin. After a first appointment at Michigan State University (1970-73), he accepted a position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he remains, holding appointments in both the History and Economics Departments. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. de Vries has served as Chair of the Department of History, Dean of Social Sciences and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. His research interests in economic history have ranged from European agrarian history, to historical demography and urbanization, to environmental and climate history, and most recently, to the history of consumer behavior. He has written six books, 65 published articles and book chapters and 45 book reviews. In addition, he is a co-editor of 3 books. Dr. De Vries is a past president of the Economic History Association and served as editor of the Journal of Economic History, 1998-2002. He is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships, among others, has held grants from NSF and NIH, and has held visiting fellowships to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and All Souls College, Oxford. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the British Academy, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. He is the 2000 recipient of the A.H. Heineken Prize in History and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2002. | |||