Dr F.P.G.B.M. Meens (Floris)

Since 2010, I have been working as a cultural historian at Radboud University. Funded with a VENI-grant from the Dutch Research Council, during the last couple of years I was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and the Universität Wien.

Building on my specialisation in the modern history of cultural networks, institutions and fields, my current research and teaching focus on the interactions between music, individual human beings and society, both in the past and in the present.

Inspired by Applied History, and combining qualitative and quantitative methods, I am currently focusing in particular on the vulnerability of music education, the inclusion and exclusion of women in leading musical positions, processes of canon formation and decolonisation in classical music, the health of musicians, and challenges related to musical heritage. I enjoy working with various social and academic partners in the Netherlands and abroad.

Apart from music, I am also interested in the history of travel and tourism (particularly in the Alps), tradition and innovation, and cultural criticism.

I am editor in chief of The International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (Brill), as well as editor of De Moderne Tijd (AUP).

In my spare time, I am artistic programmer of the Nijmegen Chamber Music Foundation, and a board member of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century.