Dr A.M.G. Arnout (Anneleen)

Anneleen Arnout is Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Radboud University. She studied history and cultural heritage at the Universities of Leuven and Utrecht. In 2015 she obtained her PhD at the Universities of Leuven and Antwerp.

Her research focuses on nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban culture. In 2019 she published 'Streets of splendor', her first monograph, in which she analyzes the development of shopping space and culture in nineteenth-century Brussels. Earlier publications engaged with questions of heritage, the development of the art market in nineteenth-century Brussels and the history of urban consumer spaces, such as markets, shopping arcades and shopping streets.

Her current project, for which she received a VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), focuses on the emotional experience of Amsterdam, Paris and London during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. With her project, Anneleen aims to trace and explain the ways in which changes in and to urban space went hand in hand with shifts in emotional culture.