Department Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity of the Faculty of Humanities.
History cluster staff
History cluster staff
An overview of the staff of the sector History
dr. Chiel van den Akker
Assistant professor of historical theory, Philosophy of history

prof. dr. Mónika Baár
Research associate, European intellectual history, history of disability, welfare state

Floris van Berckel Smit
PhD student, History of higher education, new public management

prof. dr. Ulbe Bosma
ISSH endowed chair of international and comparative social history, Slavery and forced labour, history of commodities, migration

prof. dr. Pepijn Brandon
Professor of global social and economic history, Slavery and colonialism, history of capitalism

prof. dr. Petra van Dam
Professor of water and environmental history, History of Dutch water management, human-nature interactions

prof. dr. ir. Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
Endowed chair of cultural history, Early modern history of knowledge, history of science

prof. dr. Maarten Doorman
Endowed chair in the cultural history of Germany, Art history, history of literature, romanticism, 20th century

Natalia Guzevataya
PhD student, Art and politics, contemporary Ukraine

dr. Edwina Hagen
Assistant Professor of cultural history, Culture and politics, Napoleonic Netherlands

dr. Dienke Hondius
Assistant professor of political history, Holocaust, slavery, Netherlands
Tzu-Yi Hsu
PhD student, Economic and Social History, Economic history of the Dutch East Indies, Chinese in South East Asia
dr. Norah Karrouche
Assistant Professor of Global History and Anthropology, North Africa, museums, migration

dr. Erika Kuijpers
Assistant Professorn of cultural history, History of knowledge and technology, early modern Netherlands, history of emotions

prof. dr. Inger Leemans
Professor of cultural history, History of emotions, digital humanities, Dutch Enlightenment

prof. dr. Fred van Lieburg
Professor of history of religion, History of Protestantism

drs. Wim Manuhutu
Lecturer, political history, Indonesia, colonial heritage, museums

Sam Miske
PhD candidate, Economic and Social History, Dutch East India Company, colonial labour history

dr. Wesley Mwatwara
Assistant professor of social and economic history, Agriculture, armed conflict, West Africa, 19th-20th century

prof. dr. Pál Nyiri
Professor, Global History and Anthropology, Modern and contemporary China, migration, nationalism

prof. Manon Parry
Endowed chair of medical and nursing history, Medical and health humanities, bioart and design, disability studies

Eline Pollaert
PhD, Political History Research Group, Het Dorp, Arnhem, disability history, oral history, Dutch disability history, microhistory, self-governance, self-realization

dr. Lucas Poy
Assistant Professor, Economic and Social History, Labour history, socialism, Latin America, migration

prof. dr. Susie Protschky
Professor of Global Political History, colonialism, decolonisation, photography, Indonesia

dr. Younes Saramifar
Assistant Professor, Global History and Anthropology, Inhumanities, Material Religion, Pleasures, Contemporary Middle East, Islam, violence, sex, contemporary Middle East

Eva Seuntjens
PhD student, Haïti, slavery, trans-Atlantic history

dr. Jonathan Singerton
Assistant professor of global political history , Austria-Hungary, Habsburg Monarchy, Central Europe, colonialism
dr. Shiyanthi Thavapalan
Assistant Professor, ancient history, Ancient Mesopotamia, history of technology, material culture

Dr. Lorella Viola
Assistant Professor Digital Humanities & Society

Uji Nugroho Winardi, MA
PhD Candidate, Political History, Netherlands East Indies, Indonesian nationalism, state-society relations
dr. Shana Zaia
Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Ancient Mediterranean intercultural contact; Mesopotamian Empires; religion; education
