Research School for Economic and Social History

PhD Candidates – Cohort 2025

 

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Joeri Aerts (University of Antwerp)
Sociaal-ruimtelijke aspecten van ongelijkheid in sterfte in de stad Antwerpen (1820-1946)
(part of project Sociale Ongelijkheid in Sterfte (S.O.S.) Antwerpen)
Magdė Bielinienė (KU Leuven)
Freedom through trade: The illegal rural trade in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1600-1795
Stephanie de Graaf (University of Antwerp)
From countryside to city and back: Everyday mobility and the making of rural-urban relations in 19th- and 20th-century Belgium
(part of IMPULS project)
Femke De Nil (Ghent University)
Carrying copper (industries). On the role of science and nature in colonial railway building and exploitation across the Central African Copperbelt (ca. 1900 – ca. 1965)
Portrait photo Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo (Wageningen University and Research) Portrait photo Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo
History of Philippine deforestation (Deforestation, dispossession, division, and disaster: Mapping the (post)colonial political ecologies of Philippine forests, 1850-present)
(part of project Tragedy of the tropics: Colonialism, commodities and commons in Southeast Asian deforestation since 1850)
Florian Herrendorf (Tilburg University)
Networked economic sovereignty: the interactions and entanglements between Rouen and Lübeck, circa 1450-1620
(part of project Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty (CaPANES))
Bálint Honos (Leiden University)
Forming the frontier: Slavery, westward migration and black community organization in the antebellum American West
(part of project In the shadows of slavery: Free black citizenship and democracy in antebellum America)
Hafizha Dea Iftina (Wageningen University and Research)
Tragedy of the tropics: Colonialism, commodities and commons in Indonesian deforestation since 1850
Rani Jeans (Tilburg University)
Identity and reputation in fifteenth-century Southampton, Bruges and Florence
(part of project Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty (CaPANES))
Josephine (Josie) Läuferts (Utrecht University)
The transnational circulation of knowledge and practice in social security for migrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2017
Pablo Merayo Montes (Leiden University)
Nederlandse gastarbeiders in 18e eeuws Spanje
Naomi Nabami (University of Antwerp)
Women vendors: a history of female commercial activity across the Uganda-Congo border during the 20th century
Portrait photo Brecht Nijman Brecht Nijman (Radboud University)
Shipping that counts: Intra-Asian shipping and trade networks between disruptions and resilience, ca. 1650-1795
Lara Sarcinella (University of Antwerp)
Quantifying the impact of the Dutch welfare state during its first decades after creation
(part of projects ‘Rebound’ and  ‘Social History of Finance’)
Savvas Skoufaridis (Leiden University)
Why and how was public discourse on male sexuality in Cyprus between 1939 and 1974 connected to the tension between colonialism and maintenance of national identity?
Titus Stam (Utrecht University)
Associations and the Iron Law of oligarchy in modern Western Europe
Saskia Titulaer (Wageningen University and Research)
Empowered women, healthier nations? How female political empowerment impacted public health spending in interwar Europe
Pepijn Trienekens (International Institute of Social History / Radboud University)
Dynamics of coercion and resistance on Insinger plantations
Koen Martijn van der Lijn (Leiden University)
Securing passage: Regulating Chinese migrant labor to the Dutch East Indies (1888-1911)
(part of larger project by the same name)
Helena Van Hiel (Ghent University)
Sports & Human Health at Seaside Resorts
Seb Verlinden (KU Leuven)
Designing deserts? The role of eighteenth-century ideas and drainage schemes in the long-term landscape change of the Campine area (Belgium)
(part of larger project by the same name)
Meenu Rabecca Vettickan Chakravelil (International Institute of Social History)
Being a slave in Malabar 1600-1800
(part of larger project Global-micro history slavery Asia)