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New PhD Representatives
At the General Board meeting of the N.W. Posthumus Institute of 24 September 2024 two new PhD representatives were welcomed.
Silke Baas will take the place of her namesake Silke Geven. Silke Geven is now focusing on the completing of her PhD trajectory at the University of Antwerp. We thank Silke for her efforts for the N.W. Posthumus Institute and wish her success in obtaining her PhD. Silke Baas is a PhD candidate working in the Economic and Social History department since March 2022. Before joining her colleagues in Utrecht, she studied at the University of Amsterdam, where she earned a bachelor’s in Sociology and completed a research master’s in Social Sciences. Her academic interests center around gender (in)equality within Dutch society, women in the labour market, and the organization of gender-inclusive healthcare.
Jeroen Kole joined the PhD representative as new fifth PhD. Jeroen obtained his master’s degree from the University of Antwerp in 2022 with a master’s thesis on the vocabularies of consumption and consumer mentalities on the secondary markets of eighteenth-century Amsterdam and Antwerp. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Urban History at the University of Antwerp where he is preparing a doctoral thesis on material culture and social inequality in nineteenth-century Antwerp. His research focuses on developing a multidimensional approach to understanding social inequality, considering various strategies of social distinction.
The N.W. Posthumus Institute welcomes both new PhD representatives!
