Janna Coomans new coordinator of Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’

Over the past years, Professor Pepijn Brandon, together with Dr Wout Saelens, coordinated the Research Network ‘Economy and Society of the Pre-industrial Low Countries in Comparative Perspective’ of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. Because of his obligations at VU Amsterdam and his new function at BMHN / KNHG, Pepijn has decided to hand over his tasks as network coordinator.

We are pleased to announce he has found Dr Janna Coomans to take his place as of January 2025 and join Wout Saelens as Network Coordinator.  Janna is Assistant Professor at the department of Medieval History. Her research focuses on social history and public health in premodern cities. Her dissertation (cum laude) was published in 2021 as Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries (Cambridge University Press). Between 2018-2021, she was a post doctoral researcher in the ERC-project ‘Healthscaping Urban Europe’. She currently works on the VENI (Dutch Research Council) project ‘Inflammable cities: how fire risks transformed the Low Countries, 1250-1600’.