Prof. Dr. Susanne Janssen

Academic Posts since Year of PhD (1994)

• Since 2010
  Honorary Professor, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia
  
  

• Since 2010
  Member Executive Board (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• Since 2008
  Academic Director ERMeCC- Erasmus Reseach Centre for Media , Communication and Culture
  
  

• Since 2008
  Founding Dean, International Bachelor of Communication and Media (IBCoM), Erasmus University Rotterdam (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• Since 2008
  Chair of Department of Media and Communication (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• Since 2008
  Founder/Academic Director of ERMeCC-Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• Since 2007
  Full Professor of Sociology of Media and Culture Dept. of Media and Communication (ESHCC/ EUR)
  
  

• Since 2007
  Programme Director, Research Master’s programme in the Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts (Faculty of Social Sciences & ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• 2005 – 2008
  Member Executive Board (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• since 2005
  Programme Director, MA Media Studies/Media and Journalism (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• 2003 – 2007
  Professor of Sociology of the Arts, Culture and Media (special chair ‘Vereeniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam’) / Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• 1999 – 2007
  Associate Professor (UHD) of Media and Culture (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

• 1994 – 1999
  Assistant Professor (UD) in the Sociology of Culture and the Arts (ESHCC/EUR)
  
  

Education

• 2004 – 2005
  Executive Management Course, Center for Academic Leadership, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  
  

• 1994
  Intensive English Language Course, University of Cambridge
  
  

• 1994
  PhD, University of Tilburg (Advisor: Prof. dr. H. Verdaasdonk) Title Dissertation: In het licht van de kritiek. Variaties en patronen in de aandacht van de literatuurkritiek voor auteurs en hun werken (also published by Verloren Publishers)
  
  

• 1987 – 1988
  Graduate courses General and Comparative Literature (OSL-Netherlands Research Institute and Graduate School for Literature)
  
  

• 1987
  Intensive course ‘Cultural Policy’ (Professor J. Mark Schuster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  
  

• 1986 – 1987
  Graduate courses Applied Statistics and Multivariate Analysis, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tilburg
  
  

• 1985 – 1986
  Post-Graduate Reseach Master (‘postdoctorale onderzoekersopleiding’), Faculty of Arts, University of Tilburg
  
  

• 1981 – 1985
  ‘Doctoraal’ General Language and Literature (equivalent to Master’s Degree, Faculty of Arts, University of Tilburg ), Main subjects: Sociology of Literature / Communication and Discourse Studies
  
  

• (2015, forthcoming) Popular Music, Memory and Heritage. Special issue of Popular Music and Society, 38(2) [co-edited with A. Bennett).

• (2014) Popular Music, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity. Special issue of International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20(3) [co-edited with A. Brandellero, S. Cohen & L. Roberts]

• (2011) Globalization and Diversity in Cultural Fields: Comparative Perspectives on Music, Literature and Television. Special issue of American Behavioral Scientist, 55(5) [co-edited with T.J. Dowd].

• (2009). Fields in Transition, Fields in Action. Special Issue of Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media and the Arts, 37(5-6), 295-398 [co-edited with T.J. Dowd & M. Verboord].

• (2009). Classifying Culture. Agents, Structures, Processes. Special Issue of Poetics. Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, Media and the Arts, 37(4), 295-398 [co-edited with S. Baumann & T.J. Dowd].

• In 2003, she received the prestigious VICI grant for the research project Cultural Classification Systems in Transition, a large-scale, longitudinal and cross-national study into the social valuation of cultural products in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States.

• Between 2010 and 2014, she served as director of an international collaborative research project on Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity (POPID) for which she has been awarded a major European research grant (HERA JRP grant).

• Since 2014, she directs the five-year Transformations in the Production and Consumption of Media and Culture project, for which she received the Erasmus University Research Excellence Initiative Grant.

• American Sociological Association (ASA) / Culture Section

• Council for European Studies (CES)

• Erasmus Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities (EGSH3)

• Erasmus Network for Female Professors (ENHV)

• Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC)

• European Sociological Association (ESA)

• European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

• International Communication Assocation (ICA)

• International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and the Media (IGEL)

• International Sociological Association (ISA)

• Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW – Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities)

• Netherlands Flanders Communication Association (NEFCA)

• Netherlands School for Communication Research (NESCoR)

• Nederlandse Vereniging van Sociologen (Dutch Sociological Association)

• Research School for Media Studies (RMeS)

• For further information, please consult my CV

Other activities and achievements/family

• Interested in International Collaborative Research projects in the field of Media, Communication and Culture.

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