Research School for Economic and Social History

PhD Candidates – Cohort 2023

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Dominique Guiliam Ankoné (VU Amsterdam)
Tensions of freedom: Tran Duc Thao’s anticolonial thought, activism and influence in post-WWII France
Nicolas Brenninkmeijer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Ancestor’s Tale: 200 years of inequality in Belgium
Oliver Brufal de Melgarejo (University of Groningen)
The effects of patronage and reform upon bureaucracy: evidence from the British Civil Service
Louis Debersaques (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Practical knowledge and the normativity of expertise in construction litigation (20th century)
(part of project Construction history, above and beyond. What history can do for construction history)
Evelina del Mercato (University of Antwerp)
DiplomatiCon. A connected history of Mediterranean diplomacy, the broader Italian diplomatic network
(part of project DiplomatiCon. A connected history of Mediterranean diplomacy)
Tom Hacha (Ghent University)
SOS Antwerpen – A social analysis of cause-of-death mortality in Antwerp (1820-1939)
(part of project SOS Antwerpen)
Philipp Huber (IISH)
The global business of slave trade
(part of project The global business of slave trade)
Yowali Kabamba (Utrecht University)
Roots and routes to migrants’ economic participation in the Netherlands: the constraining and facilitating impact of home and host society contexts (1970 – 2021)
Marie Keulen (Radboud University)
Shaping intimate lives: missionary interferences in family relations in Surinam, 1830-1920
Maliene Kip (Eindhoven University of Technology)
The Netherlands’ globally entangled history of edible oils
(part of project Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernisation)
Jeroen Kole (University of Antwerp)
The domestic environment as a marker of status: a study of mechanisms of social inequality and class identity through material culture in Antwerp (1830-1912)
Vincent Laarman (VU Amsterdam)
Slavery, church and co-Existence in the Dutch colonial empire till the 19th century
(part of project Church and slavery in the Dutch Empire: history, theology and heritage)
Sanayi Marcelline (Leiden University)
Racialized identities. Community formation and slave ancestry in the Creolising suburbs of Colombo in the late 18th and early 19th century
(part of project Forgotten lineages. Afterlives of Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean world)
Giacomo Mastrogregori (University of Antwerp)
Mapping the diplomatic relations between the Crown of Aragon and the Mamluk Sultanate
(part of project DiplomatiCon. A connected history of Mediterranean diplomacy)
Gianluca Ratti (University of Antwerp)
Mapping Italian diplomacy
(part of project DiplomatiCon. A connected history of Mediterranean diplomacy)
Alyssa Rowennah Renfurm (VU Amsterdam)
Resisting enslavement
(part of project Resisting enslavement: a global historical approach to slavery in the Dutch Atlantic and Asian Empire (1620-1815))
Ellen Roelandts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Attitudes towards wealth and redistribution in Belgium since the 19th century
(part of project An ancestor’s tale: 200 years of wealth inequality, persistence and redistribution)
Eva Seuntjens (VU Amsterdam / IISH)
Slavery assured: a study in the Amsterdam Insurance Company of 1771 and its involvement in slavery, 1771-1870
Catherine Simpson (Utrecht University)
Air pollution and its socio-economic and health consequences in Dutch cities, 1850-1950
Lotte Van Attenhoven (University of Antwerp) /
Social and spatial inequalities in mortality in Antwerp. A cause specific research (1820-1939)
(part of project SOS Antwerpen)
Maite Van den Borre (Utrecht University)
Netherlands’ global entangled history of ores and metals
(part of project Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernisation)
Daan Van den bussche (University of Antwerp)
Real estate and the intergenerational wealth transmission in 19th-century Belgium
(part of project An ancestor’s tale: 200 years of wealth inequality and redistributive policy)
Janny van Doorn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Urban conflicts regarding food access on the brink of the late medieval and the early modern period. Bruges 1417-1560
Britt van Duijvenvoorde (IISH)
Differentiating enslavements in the Dutch global empire
(part of project Resisting enslavement: a global historical approach to slavery in the Dutch Atlantic and Asian Empire (1620-1815))
Pouwel van Schooten (Leiden University)
Hidden Others. Transitioning from slavery to freedom in the Galle Province (1650-1750)
(part of project Forgotten lineages. Afterlives of Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean world)
Matthieu Willemsen (Radboud University)
De bewapening van de Nederlandse landlegers in de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden en haar koloniën, 1599-1795. Productie, distributie en gebruik