Prof. D.B.R. Kroeze (Ronald)

Ronald Kroeze is Professor of Parliamentary History and director of the Netherlands Centre for Parliamentary History, which is embedded in the Faculty of Arts of Radboud University Nijmegen. Previously, he worked as associate professor of Political History and director of the History programme at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Earlier he was a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting scholar at the universities of Oxford (Corpus Christi College), Avignon, Warwick and Berlin (Humboldt). He participated in and was initiator of several NWO, EU and CNRS funded projects. His fields of expertise include:

- The history of modern politics and democracy, and parliamentary history;
- The history of corruption and anticorruption, including the impact of colonialism and decolonisation on good governance and global norm-setting
- Business-politics relations in historical perspective, and the impact of (new public) management and neoliberalism on Dutch and European politics
- Business history and financial history/ heritage
- “Uses of the past” and applied history (including the learning history method);
- Oral history