Research projects
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Ancient Weather Perspectives
This project investigates the way in which weather influenced the lives of people in Late Antiquity.
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Colonial Governmentality and Missionary Practices of Child Upbringing in Suriname, 1830-1930
This PhD project investigates policies and practices of child upbringing by missionary organisations in 19th and early 20th century colonial Suriname.
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Prefigurations of Peace
This project aims to uncover the existence of a hidden tradition, that of the poet-diplomat, in nineteenth-century English literature.
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MIDLAB (Middeleeuws Inspiratie-Laboratorium voor Actueel Beleid)
This project consists of creating and leading an innovative Think Tank, in collaboration with Martine Veldhuizen (Utrecht University).
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Periodical Famines
Periodical famines is a thorough analysis of transatlantic Irish periodical culture during and after the Great Famine, demonstrating how periodicals' transmission of famine memories shaped global cultures.
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Beyond Crisis Architecture
This project assesses ‘crisis’ through the lens of architectural innovation at rural settlements, moving beyond simplistic notions of ‘crisis architecture’.
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Reading for Change
This project examines readers and the books that might and might not have played a role in their political behaviour. I will focus on the governing political elite who made use of the Dutch National Library during the Revolutionary era.
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Recovering Anonymous Late-Antique Preachers in the Corpus of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons
Using both traditional and digital methodologies, this project investigates the dynamics of anonymity versus authority in shaping the medieval reception of Patristic sermons.
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Unsetling Sources
In the 1940s and 1950s, children’s homes in Indonesia were hazardous, prompting many to seek refuge in the Netherlands. This project examines sensitive records from that time to understand their impact on the Indisch community.
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The Alongshore City: Early Modern Colombo and the Creation of a Global South Hub (1550–1820)
This project aims to investigate the socio-environmental impact of several successive waves of ecosystem-engineering regimes which established themselves in and around the port city of Colombo in the early modern period.
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Missing Dutch Girls
This project focuses on patterns and determinants of excess mortality among Dutch girls between 1 and 15 between 1864 and 1930.
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Circulating representations of slavery
This research focuses on how European readers gained access to information about transatlantic slavery and how this information was disseminated through various literary and print forms during the 18th century.
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The private client accounts of the Leiden booksellers firm Luchtmans (1683-1848)
This project examines the private client accounts lists of the Leiden-based booksellers firm Luchtmans (1683-1848) to explore book acquisition patterns and community formation.
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Picking Up the Pieces. Private libraries, Trauma and Transitional Justice in Postrevolutionary Paris
This project examines the restitution of private book collections confiscated in Paris during the French Revolution.
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Business as Usual
This PhD project revolves around the business correspondence of merchants in the early modern Low Countries.
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Amor Mundi
This collaboration builds on a shared interests in contemporary ecological theory and philosophy and seeks to develop the sense of what “amor mundi” (love of the world) means in a time of social and ecological crises (i.e., poly-crisis).
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Faculty of Arts @ Besiendershuis
The Faculty of Arts has started a long-term collaboration with Besiendershuis, the iconic building on the river Waal, which focuses on developing cultural residencies and presenting public-oriented artistic programmes for the benefit of the city.
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Fashion & Food Synergy for Sustainability
The project “Fashion & Food Synergy for Sustainability” develops new digital modules, tools, and webinars, related to sustainability and future trends in the fields of fashion & food.
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Creativity development as a didactic tool for making vwo upper secondary students understand historical literature within the subject Dutch
Creativity development in education has great potential. This research aims to gain insight into why it appears not to be easy for teachers to shape this ideal starting point in the classroom. It is unclear what causes this.
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'Pagan' Virtues: Emperor Trajan as a Behavioral Model for Wayward Rulers
This project examines how Emperor Trajan was regarded as a behavioral model for rulers in the Middle Ages and Early Modern mirrors for princes.