Dr H.G.J. Kaal (Harm)

Harm Kaal (PhD VU University, 2008) is a political historian and assistant professor at the History Department of Radboud University. His key areas of interest are the language of politics and urban planning, the scientization of the political, the interaction between politics and popular culture and the history of electoral culture. Over the past few years he was awarded visiting fellowships at the University of Cambridge (2009) and the Institute of Historical Research (School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2014). He has recently published in Contemporary European History, the European Review of History, Women’s History, and the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte. His latest (co-authored) book project entails an analysis of the history of election campaigns in the Netherlands, which will be published in 2020.