Research projects
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Faithful friends and filthy foes. A sensory and emotional history of human-animal interactions in Amsterdam (1840-1930)
In the context of climate change, decreasing biodiversity, bio-industry and pandemics, the question how humans do, and should, coexist and interact with animals – from cute pets and loyal beasts of burden to future meat and dangerous pests
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Fair and reasonable
The reasonable exchange of arguments in parliament nowadays seems to be at odds with the accessibility of democratic decision-making. Debate procedures are often seen by the people as elitist and undemocratic.
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Exporting Empire, 1600-1800: Making the Dutch Early Modern Economy
This project answers the question: why was Dutch industry (nijverheid and trafieken) able to grow despite the overall decline of the Dutch economy after the 1670s? It answers this question by looking at the mostly neglected role of industry
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Early Christian martyr acts in Latin
This project aims at presenting a bilingual edition of two crucial early Christian texts from the late 2nd century in the genre of martyr acts: the Acta Martyrum Scillitanorum and the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis.
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Digital Photographic Grammar: Mapping Documentary Photographs
The cultural legacy of the European Recovery Program has not yet been grasped: a visual matrix that was designed to translate, mediate, and communicate abstract political and economic concepts as easily understandable narratives.
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Crime in wartime
During the Second World War, crime rates all over occupied Europe were on the rise. People who normally led ‘respectable’ lives now broke the law in various ways, ranging from black market dealing and prostitution to illegal activities
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Cicero’s complete letters in Dutch
This large project aims at translating and briefly annotating all extant letters by the great Roman politician, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43). Some of his letters have been translated into Dutch.
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Christine Mohrmann (1903-1988). Scholar at the intersection of gender, religion and academic culture
The classicist Christine Mohrmann was a (catholic) woman ahead of her time in certain respects, whilst in other respects she was very much a child of her time. While many people in the 1920s and 1930s still had to get used to the idea.
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Child separation
This project examines the scope, spread and development of faith‐based child separation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia (1808‐1984).
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Care for the vulnerable in the 19th and early 20th centuries
The support of the vulnerable in our society is a hot issue; not only today but also in the past. In the past one discovers discussions by governmental institutions and churches about the question who takes care of the people living.
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Anchoring Innovation
The ancient Greeks and Romans were great innovators, not only in the realm of technology but also in other human domains, such as literature, politics and religion. How did those innovations take place?
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A Sacred Triad
This project aims to understand the relationship between religion(s), food and music in the monarchical political systems of Eurasia. From Christendom via the Islamicate world to the Sinosphere, from the 13th till the late 18th century.
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A Living Law
In the eighth and ninth centuries, Western Europe experienced an impressive rekindled enthusiasm for scholarship and learning, fuelled by the Carolingian ambitions of correctio and emendatio of religious texts and practice.
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Belonging, Representation, Creolization
Focussing on the social and cultural history of baseball in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, this research project analyzes how the sport has played a role in processes of belonging, discrimination and exclusion.
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Breaking Borders
Researching the transatlantic dimension to socialist discussions in the early 20th century, this promotional project analyzes the idea of international solidarity between socialists from Europe, the Caribbean and North America.
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From Coercion to Consent: Sexual Violence and Female Empowerment in medieval Dutch and French Songtexts
This project investigates the themes of sexual coercion and consent in medieval songtexts about sexual encounters.
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The Paramaribo Ward Registers
In this project data from the Paramaribo Ward Registers (1828-1846) will be made available as a FAIR database that can be used for both scholarly research and by a wider public for family history.
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A digital archive of the female gaze in the turn of the Century
This project aims to uncover the development of the female gaze in the advent of modern travel photography, while highlighting the experiences of María de las Nieves.
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Imperial Pasts in Contemporary Comics
This PhD-project investigates how contemporary comics co-construct or challenge the dominant cultural archives of colonialism in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Re/Presenting Europe
This project investigates the positive impact of sports on European societies, through a study of issues of belonging, in- and exclusion, identity formation, and national representation.