His research interest include and he has published on: social theory (processes and mechanisms of social change), trajectories of rural modernization, processes of spatial organization (nation building and state formation; globalisation), changing material culture and consumption and historical demography.

Currently he is writing a book on the dual processes of modernisation and democratisation in the Dutch countryside from 1840 till 1920.

Personal website Anton Schuurman

• The making of Europe and the European Union, 1996 -
• Introduction Development Studies, 2003 - 2013, 2018-2019
• Introduction Economics and Policy, 2004 - 2012
• Introduction to the European Union: policies, institutions and law, 2013 - 2019
• Social Transitions in History, 2007 - 2019
• Globalization from a historical perspective, 2001 - 2019
• Demography and global population issues, 2002 – 2013
• Environmental History, 1995 - 2001, 2009-2010, 2012 - 2019
• Major works in social theory, 2008 - 2015
• Advanced social theory, 2008 - 2018