Kleoniki Alexopoulou Wageningen University
Rural & Environmental History Group
Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema
Research: Fiscal regimes and state formation in Portuguese Africa (1880s-1970s) Jelten Baguet
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Frederik Buylaert and prof.dr. Anne-Laure Van Bruaene Research: The Forging of a Pre-Modern Urban Elite. Political Networks and Social Change in Sixteenth-Century Ghent
Corinne Boter
Wageningen University
Rural & Environmental History Group Exact date of appointment: 1 January 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema and dr. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Research: The Dynamics of the Household. Labour division in Dutch households 1830-1940
Angus Dalrymple-Smith Wageningen University
Rural & Environmental History Group Exact date of appointment: 4 February 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema
Research: Transformation and change from the end of the slave trade to colonialism in West Africa
Dominique De Groen Ghent University Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Antoon Vrints
Research: Social Justice and National Identification. A Social History of War Nationalism in Belgium, 1914-1925
Pieter De Reu Ghent University Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 December 2012 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Eric Vanhaute
Research: The rise of the modern fiscal state in Belgium Filip Degreef
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 January 2013
Supervisor: Prof.dr. Peter Scholliers and dr. Patricia Van den Eeckhout
Research: Food Quality, Safety and Trust since 1950:Societal Controversy and Biotechnological Challenges
Ewout Depauw Ghent University Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Isabelle Devos
Research: Life at the bottom. Living standards and heights in Flanders, 1780-1900 Kate Frederick
Wageningen University
Rural & Environmental History Group
Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013
Supervisor: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema and dr. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Research: Unraveling the African Textile Mystery: An Investigation of Global and Local Factors in sub-Saharan Africa’s Long-Term Industrial Lethargy
Daniel Gallardo Albarrán University of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business, Department Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Herman de Jong and dr. M. Uebele
Research: Health and life expectancy in Europe during the first half of the twentieth century
Oisín Gilmore
University of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business, Department Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Exact date of appointment: 18 November 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Herman de Jong
Research: Working hours and the rise of leisure Louella de Graaf
Wageningen University
Exact date of appointment: 1 January 2013
Supervisor: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema and dr. Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Research: Between forced labor and market work. Javanese households, the allocation of labor and time, and consumption under colonial rule, 1830-1940 Michiel de Haas
Wageningen University
Rural & Environmental History Group Exact date of appointment: 1 February 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema
Research: A new empirical foundation for East African living standards in the 20th century
Jonne Harmsma
University of Groningen
Faculty of Arts, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 April 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Hans Renders and prof.dr. Jan Marc Berk Research: Biography of Jelle Zijlstra
Elisabeth Heijmans Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisors: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: Free Agency and Informal Empire in the French Domains Overseas
Ellen Janssens
University of Antwerp Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Tim Soens and prof.dr. Hilde Greefs
Research: Fluid urban environments: mapping Antwerp's drinking water system and its evolving socio-spatial arrangement (1700-1900)
Ye Ma
University of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business, Department Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Herman de Jong and prof.dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden Research: Institutions, Size, and Wealth: Economic Development in 18th-19th Century China
Ruben Menten-Plesters Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Paul Erdkamp and dr. Koenraad Verboven Research: The textile industry in Roman Egypt
Jim van der Meulen University of Antwerp Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 November 2013 Supervisors: Prof.dr. Peter Stabel and dr. Tim Soens
Research: Textile production and town-countryside relations in the Flemish West Country (15th-16th centuries)
Sanne Muurling Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Manon van der Heijden
Research: Crime and gender in Bologna, 1600-1796 Kostadis Papaioannou
Wageningen University
Rural & Environmental History Group Exact date of appointment: 1 February 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Ewout Frankema
Research: Is Poverty Destiny? A New Empirical Foundation for Long-Term African Welfare Analysis
Edgar Pereira Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisor: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires in the Early Modern Iberian Empires (1500-1750)
Tim Riswick
Radboud University Nijmegen
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 15 September 2013 Supervisors: Prof.dr. Theo Engelen and dr. Hilde Bras
Research: Between Hostility and Affection. Sameness and Difference in the Mortality Chances of Brothers and Sisters in Taiwan and the Netherlands, 1860-1940.
Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisors: Prof.dr. Marlou Schrover
Research: The postcolonial opportunity structure of Eurasians Julie M. Svalastog
Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisor: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: The British Domains Overseas
Tineke Van de Walle University of Antwerp Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Peter Stabel and dr. Tim Soens
Research: The 'horizontal city' in the middle ages. Suburban settlement in the Southern Low Countries (late 15th-16th century)
Sven Van Melkebeke Ghent University Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 March 2013 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Eric Vanhaute
Research: Changing grounds. ‘Free’ and ‘unfree’ coffee-growing labor in the Kivu region, Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, 1920-1960
Tina Van Rossem
Vrije Universiteit Brussel Department of Sociology
Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Patrick Deboosere and prof.dr. Isabelle Devos Research: Mortality in Brussels at the beginning of the twentieth century Ruth Wauters
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2013
Supervisors: prof.dr. Anne Winter and prof.dr. Jenneke Christiaens
Research: Cities and Newcomers: Regulating Neighbourhoods of Arrival in Periods of Urban Transition, 1880-1914 and 1980-2015
Clare Wilkinson Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Manon van der Heijden and dr. A. Schmidt
Research: Masculinity and local newspaper reports of male sex crimes from 1870 to 1939
Kaarle Wirta Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013 Supervisor: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: A Comprative
overview of free agents and informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire - Scandinavian Domains overseas
Ingrid de Zwarte
University of Amsterdam Department of History
Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2013
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Peter Romijn and dr. Ralf Futselaar
Research: The Hunger Winter reassessed. Food shortage and famine in Dutch society, 1944-1946