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Nan Dirk de Graaf is a Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He has held academic positions including full Professor and Department Chair at Nijmegen University (2001-2007) and chair of the Inter-university Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (2003-2007). His research spans social stratification, political sociology, sociology of religion, and pro-social behavior, with a focus on social mobility's impacts on political preferences, health, and cultural participation.
- PhD: Utrecht University (1988)
- Post-doctoral: Max Planck Institute for Education and Human Development (1988-1989)
Key Research Themes:
- Class and educational inequality across generations
- Religious diversity and secularization dynamics
- Right-wing populism and income inequality
- Criminal career transmission within families
- Trust in common-pool resource management
- Pro-social behavior in cross-national contexts
Publication Trends: His work combines macro-level institutional analysis with micro-level behavioral studies, spanning comparative political sociology, religious change, and public bads like corruption and environmental degradation. Methodological rigor is emphasized through longitudinal and cross-national designs.
Scientific Contributions:
- 2022 Handbook of Sociological Science integrating theoretical-methodological debates
- 2019 Societal Problems as Public Bads analyzing collective action failures
- Pioneering work on secularization in Germany (2020)
- Foundational studies on class voting (2013, 1995)
Academic Mentorship: He has advised 26 former PhD students and currently supervises 5, with notable alumni including Professor Christiaan Monden (Oxford) and Professor Ayse Guveli (University of Warwick).
Labs/Teams: He leads projects at Nuffield College, including the Handbook of Sociological Science initiative and cross-national studies on social mobility. His work engages with the European Sociological Review and the European Journal of Political Science.
