Dr. Eveline G. Bouwers, Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz
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Dr. Eveline G. Bouwers

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 03.03.2015
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Arts and humanities


Field

Humanities



Area of specialisation

Modern European history



Research interests

  • Social and cultural history; comparative history and cultural transfer; religious-political conflicts; memory studies; political iconography; national and regional identity. Main focus on German, French, Belgian and Italian history (period 1750-1914)



Interested in

  • Teaching, knowledge transfer to the public, team-based research work


Languages

Dutch, English, French, German, Italian



Doctorate

  • 2009: Remembrance cultures in Revolutionary Europe




Short CV/Education and training

  • 2003
    Bachelor of Arts at University College Utrecht (NL)

  • 2004
    Master of Arts in European Studies at Catholic University Leuven (BE)

  • 2005
    Master of Arts in History at the University of Amsterdam (NL)

  • 2005 – 2009
    doctoral candidate at the European University Institute, Florence (I)

  • 2007
    visiting student at York University (UK)

  • 2009 – 2012
    postdoctoral research fellow at Bielefeld University (DE)

  • 2011
    visiting scholar at the Minda de Ginzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University (USA)

  • 2013
    visiting scholar at KADOC Leuven (BE)

  • Since 2013
    head of the Emmy Noether research group "Battles over Belief: Religion and Violence in Catholic Europe, 1848-1914", based at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz (DE)

Selected publications

  • "Catholic and Breton Forever": Violence and the visual in early-twentieth century France, in: Writing oolitical history today, eds. Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt & Willibald Steinmetz (Frankfurt am Main 2013) 259-290.

  • Il culto degli italiani illustri nella Roma pre-risorgimentale, in: Memoria & Ricerca 45:1 (2014) 127-155.

  • Public pantheons in Revolutionary Europe. Comparing cultures of remembrance, c. 1790-1840 (Basingstoke 2012).

  • Voorbeelden voor het volk? Heldenverering in Groot-Brittannië en Italië, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 124:2 (2012), 89-102.



Complete list of publications

Selected projects

  • Religion and violence in Catholic Europe, 1848-1914 (principal investigator)

  • Violence and the clerical-liberal conflict in Bavaria, Brittany and Flanders: 1848-1914 (personal project)

  • A history of blasphemy in Europe since 1500 (school project)

  • Public pantheons in Revolutionary Europe, c. 1790-1840 (dissertation project)

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