You may have noticed it already, but the appearance of our website has been slightly redesigned. Because of the number of news items and because some messages appeared in several categories at the same time, messages appeared to get ‘out of sight’ (i.e. moved down the list) soon after their initial publication. We hope to…

We are happy to inform you that Nicolas Brenninkmeijer has agreed to join the group of PhD representatives of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. The PhD Representatives represent the PhD participants enrolled in the PhD Training Programme of the N.W. Posthumus Institute. New developments and proposed changes related to the PhD Training are proposed to and…

On 28 March 2024, Posthumus alumna Arlinde Vrooman successfully defended her thesis ‘Here to Heal? The Effect of Colonial Rule on Disease and Health Care in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900-1955’ at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen. Promotors are Professors Jutta Bolt and Herman de Jong (both University…

On 31 May 2024, Posthumus alumna Sietske van der Veen successfully defended the thesis ‘Novel Opportunities, Perpetual Barriers: Patterns of Social Mobility and Integration among the Jewish Dutch Elite, 1870-1940’ at Utrecht University. Promotores were Professor Lex Heerma van Voss (Utrecht University), Professor Leo Lucassen (Leiden University), and Professor Karin Hofmeester (IISH and University of…

On 21 March 2024, Posthumus alumna Eva van der Heijden successfully defended her thesis ‘Educational Endeavors: Children of immigrants in education in the Netherlands, 1980-2020’ at Leiden University. Promotor was Professor Leo Lucassen (Leiden University), co-promotor Professor Helga de Valck ( Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, University of Groningen). The N.W. Posthumus staff congratulates Eva with…

On 15 March 2024, Posthumus alumnus Damion Bunders will defend his thesis ‘Gigs of their Own: can platform cooperatives become resilient?’ at the Erasmus Research Institute of Management of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Damion’s dissertation is about platform cooperatives as an alternative form of organisation where gig workers own and manage a digital platform collectively. It…

On 11 January 2024, Posthumus alumnus Patrick Naaktgeboren successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Private partnerships in early modern Antwerp (1621–1791) at Maastricht University. Promotores were Professor Bram Van Hofstraeten (Maastricht University) and Professor Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp). Patricks dissertation investigates private partnerships in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Antwerp (1621–1791) from both a legal historical and…

The Levend Archief organisation, the association of supporters of the City Archives of Bruges, has awarded Posthumus board member Dr Heidi Deneweth the Levend Archiefprijs (‘Living Archives Award’), a quintennial award, for her publication Goede muren maken goede buren. Verbouwingen en buurtleven in Brugge, 1500-1800 (‘Good walls make good neighbors. Remodelling and neighborhood life in…

The General Board of the N.W. Posthumus Institute is happy to present you the N.W. Posthumus Institute Annual Report 2022. The report provides you with an overview of activities, results and developments regarding the N.W. Posthumus Institute in 2022, the first ‘regular’ year after the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on society. DOWNLOAD (PDF, 3…

On 20 September 2023, Posthumus alumnus Mark van de Water defended his PhD thesis ‘The road to drain or gain’ at the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University. Supervisors were Professor David Henley and Dr Thomas Lindblad, promotores were Professor Henley and Dr Jeroen Touwen. The aim of Mark’s PhD dissertation is to explore the…