Frank van Tubergen

Frank van Tubergen

Frank van Tubergen (1976) is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Utrecht

University, Netherlands. He also holds a position at the Department of Migration and Ethnic

Relations. His research interests include social networks, social stratification, intermarriage

and friendship, integration of immigrants and their children (language, social contacts,

education, employment), and religion. His work appeared in American Journal of Sociology,

American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Demography, European Sociological Review,

International Migration Review and Social Science Research.

He received several awards and grants. For his PhD thesis (2005), he received the Ruigrok

award from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (2006) and the two-yearly

PhD thesis award from the Dutch sociological association (2007). He received a VENI (2005)

and VIDI (2009) grant from the Dutch science foundation (NWO). In 2010, the European

Academy of Sociology awarded him the prize for best article. In the same year, he received

the IPUMS-USA Research Award of the Minnesota Population Center for best published

work.

Van Tubergen is actively involved in several large-scale longitudinal data collections. In

2009, the European commission (6th Framework Programme), funded two major cross-

national, longitudinal surveys in Europe, of which he is co-applicant and co-investigator:

Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study in Four European Countries (CILS4EU),

and Causes and consequences of early socio-cultural integration processes among new

immigrants in Europe (SCIP).

In 2010, he was elected as a fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands

Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He is furthermore a member of the Interuniversity

Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and the European Research Centre

on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER).

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