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) |
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Magdė Bielinienė (KU Leuven) Freedom through trade: The illegal rural trade in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1600-1795 |
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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) |
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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) |
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Angelo Carlo Reyes Galindo (Wageningen University and Research) 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) |
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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)) |
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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) |
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Hafizha Dea Iftina (Wageningen University and Research) Tragedy of the tropics: Colonialism, commodities and commons in Indonesian deforestation since 1850 |
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Rani Jeans (Tilburg University) Identity and reputation in fifteenth-century Southampton, Bruges and Florence (part of project Causal Pattern Analysis of Economic Sovereignty (CaPANES)) |
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Josephine (Josie) Läuferts (Utrecht University) The transnational circulation of knowledge and practice in social security for migrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2017 |
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Pablo Merayo Montes (Leiden University) Nederlandse gastarbeiders in 18e eeuws Spanje |
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Naomi Nabami (University of Antwerp) Women vendors: a history of female commercial activity across the Uganda-Congo border during the 20th century |
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Brecht Nijman (Radboud University) Shipping that counts: Intra-Asian shipping and trade networks between disruptions and resilience, ca. 1650-1795 |
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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’) |
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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? |
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Titus Stam (Utrecht University) Associations and the Iron Law of oligarchy in modern Western Europe |
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Saskia Titulaer (Wageningen University and Research) Empowered women, healthier nations? How female political empowerment impacted public health spending in interwar Europe |
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Pepijn Trienekens (International Institute of Social History / Radboud University) Dynamics of coercion and resistance on Insinger plantations |
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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) |
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Helena Van Hiel (Ghent University) Sports & Human Health at Seaside Resorts |
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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) |
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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) |





















