W.E. Metzlar (Wieke) MA
PhD candidate - Economical, Social and Demographic History
PhD candidate - Radboud Institute for Culture and History
Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN
Wieke Metzlar (1998) is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, Art History and Classics (GKO). Her research focuses on gender inequality in mortality. She researches excess mortality among girls in the Netherlands in the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Using individual-level mortality data, this project examines which girls were at larger risks of death and seeks to identify underlying determinants of their untimely death.
Wieke completed at the Radboud University in Nijmegen her Bachelor's degree in History and Research Master's degree in Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (cum laude). During her studies, she has conducted research internships in Leuven (2021) at the departments of Forensic Biomedical Sciences and Sociology and in Bologna (2022) at the department of Statistical Sciences 'Paolo Fortunati'. Next to her PhD, Wieke works as an archivist in the Museum Kinderdorp Neerbosch.