Department of History
Maastricht University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
PhD
My current PhD-research provides a cultural-historical analysis of the Dutch remembrance days 4th and 5th of May. The commemorations on these days are used to describe socio-cultural changes in Dutch society and changing perceptions of Dutch national and/or local identities. Furthermore, the tension between national and local memory culture will be studied in an international context, resulting in an analysis of the dynamics of these interactions.
Editor for 'Socialisme and Democratie', journal of the Wiardi Beckman Stichting, the Research Institute of the Dutch Labour Party.
Research assistent at the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies (Campus The Hague/University of Leiden)
Memory of the Second World War, memory studies, interaction between local, national and international memory, remembrance, identity, cultural history, totalitarianism