Mirjam Bekker
Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 November 2012 Supervisor: Dr. Manon van der Heijden
Research: Crime and gender in Bologna, 1600-1796
Alexander Coppens
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 15 November 2011
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Anne Winter and prof.dr. Hilde Greefs
Research: Between local autonomy and national migration policy: Dealing with ‘foreigners’ in Brussels, 1750-1914
Pieter De Graef
University of Antwerp
Faculty of Arts, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Bruno Blondé, dr. Tim Soens and dr. Thijs Lambrecht Research: 'Wo mistus, da Christus'. A micro-perspective on the allocation and recycling of urban waste in the rural economy of early modern Flanders
Pieter De Messemaeker
Ghent University
Department of Arts and Philosophy / History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Christophe Verbruggen and dr. Julie Carlier
Research: Transnational Intellectual Networks, Central Europe and Belgium, 1890- 1914
Ellen Debackere
Ghent University
Department of Arts and Philosophy / History Exact date of appointment: 15 October 2011
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Anne Winter and prof.dr. Hilde Greefs
Research: Between local autonomy and national migration policy: Dealing with ‘foreigners’ in Antwerp, 1750-1914
Britt Denis
University of Antwerp
Faculty of Arts, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Bruno Blondé and dr. Ilja Van Damme
Research: Urban community building in an age of transition: material discourses of inclusion and exclusion in nineteenth-century Antwerp
Kate Ekama
University of Leiden
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012 Supervisor: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Challenging Monopolies, Building Global in the Early Modern period: suing the monopolies – the case of the VOC and the WIC
Alberto Feenstra
University of Amsterdam
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment : 1 September 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Joost Jonker and dr. Marjolein 't Hart
Research: Finance without frontiers? The integration of provincial money markets in the Dutch Republic
Rick Hölsgens
University of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business, Department Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Exact date of appointment: 16 February 2012 Supervisor: Dr. Ben Gales
Research: Historical Roots of the Dutch Sustainability Challenge: Fossil Resource Use for Energy and Synthetic in the Netherlands, 1850-2010
Boris Horemans
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of Languages and Literature, Urban History (HOST)
Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Anne Winter
Research: Master craftsmen and building contractors in Brussels (1600-1795): a socio-economical approach
Jeannette Kamp
University of Leiden
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2012
Supervisors: Dr. Manon van der Heijden and prof.dr. Leo Lucassen
Research: Crime and gender in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1600-1806)
Stephanie Kerckhofs
University of Leuven
Interfaculty Centre for Agrarian History (ICAG) Exact date of appointment: 1 November 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Yves Seger and dr. Leen Van Molle
Research: Farming in tropical Africa. Agricultural science and knowledge networks in Belgian Congo, 1908 – 1960
Lilianne Laan
University of Technology Eindhoven
Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Technology, Innovation and Society Exact date of appointment: 1 February 2012
Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. Harry Lintsen
Research: Historical roots of the Dutch sustainability challenge; transitions in the agro complex, 1850-2005
Gertjan Leenders
Ghent University
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 15 October 2012
Supervisor: Prof.dr. Antoon Vrints
Research: Denunciation in Belgium during the two world wars. Power relations, actors, and motives
Inge Ligtvoet
Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1October 2012 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Mirjam de Bruijn
Research: African Youth Confronting Political Repression in a Globalized Cameroon and Nigeria
Hadewijch Masure
University of Antwerp
Faculty of Arts, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Bert De Munck and prof. dr. Peter Stabel
Research: Poor relief and community building in the Southern Low Countries, ca. 1300-1600
Giselle Nath
University of Ghent
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Gita Deneckere and prof.dr. Antoon Vrints
Research: The rise of mass consumption in Belgium (1945-1989): the social and political construction of affluence
Frank Ochsendorf
Leiden University
Leiden Institute of Area Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Asian Studies Exact date of appointment: 1 November 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. David Henley and dr. J.Thomas Lindblad Research: Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia
Erik Odegard
University of Leiden
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012 Supervisor: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Challenging Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern period: serving the East and the West – strategies in imperial career paths within the VOC and the WIC
Sandra de Pleijt
Utrecht University
Faculty of Humanities, Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) Exact date of appointment: 1 September 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. Jan Luiten van Zanden and prof.dr. Jacob Weisdorf
Research: An empirical assessment of the causes and dynamics of economic growth in the North Sea area, 1300-1900
Joris van den Tol
University of Leiden
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012 Supervisor: Dr. Cátia Antunes
Research: Challening Monopolies, Building Global Empires in the Early Modern period; lobbying for Taiwan and Brazil - lobby groups to the Companies and the States General
Tineke Van Gassen
Ghent University
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012
Supervisor: Prof.dr. Marc Boone
Research: Archives as touchstones of urban memories: self-consciousness and identity. Focus on late medieval Ghent in a comparative perspective
Mark van de Water
Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 November 2012
Supervisors: Prof.dr. David Henley and dr. J.Thomas Lindblad
Research: Foreign investment and colonial economic growth in Indonesia
Catherina Wilson
Leiden University
Faculty of Humanities, Department of History Exact date of appointment: 1 October 2012 Supervisor: Prof.dr. Mirjam de Bruijn
Research: Connecting in times of duress: Shaping Urbanity in Central African Republic (CAR)