| Marjan Schwegman | |
| Birth Date: | 20 February 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Middenmeer |
| Alma Mater: | University of Amsterdam |
| Occupation: | Historian |
| Known For: | Order of Orange-Nassau |
Maria Janna "Marjan" Schwegman (born 20 February 1951, Middenmeer)[1] is a Dutch historian who was managing director of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies from March 2007 to 18 February 2016.[2] Besides that, she is a professor in Politics and Culture in the 20th century at the faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.[3]
Marjan Schwegman studied history at the University of Amsterdam.
From 2003 to 2007 Marjan Schwegman was managing director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome.[4] Previously she worked at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, Maastricht University and Utrecht University. In Utrecht she became bijzonder hoogleraar (endowed professor) women's history.[5]
From 2007, she occupied the chair of Politics and Culture in the Long Twentieth Century. Since 2003, her main work is no longer at the university: from 2003 to 2007 she was director of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. She has been director of NIOD since 2007.
From 2009–2010, she was vice-chairman of the Commissie-Davids (an independent commission supervised by jurist Willibrord Davids, the 'Davids Committee') which looked into the decision-making process for the Dutch support in the Iraq War.[6]
On 18 February 2016, Jet Bussemaker decorated Schwegman with the title officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau (Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau).
She wrote a biography of the Italian educator Maria Montessori (2000) as well as a biography of the 19th-century Italian feminist Gualberta Beccari, and biographical articles on Giuseppe Mazzini and Cesare Lombroso.[7]