Dr. Kristin Eva Albrechsen Veel
Social and behavioural sciences, LanguagesComparative Literature and Modern Culture
Prof. Dr. Gita Deneckere
Nominated by
- The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
- AcademiaNet member since 04.11.2014
- AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria
Employed by
- Ghent University
- Ghent University
Academic Discipline/Fields
- Arts and humanities
Field
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Area of specialisation
Social history since 1750; Public history; Women and gender history: Theory and methodology of historical sciences.
Research interests
History of power, emancipation and contentious politics
History of the European monarchy
The politics of scandal in European history
Realms of memory/lieux de mémoire
Distinctions and Awards
Henriëtte de Beaufort Prize 2013
Prix Jean Stengers 2014
Scientific Outreach Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België/Royal Flemish Academy 2018
Interested in
- Lectures, Management position, Membership in scientific bodies, Refereeing
Languages
Dutch, English, French, German
Doctorate
- 1993: Collective action in Belgium 1831-1940
Short CV/Education and training
- 1986Licentiate in history Ghent University
- 1988 – 1992Research fellow National Fund for Scientific Research Belgium
- 1993PhD in history Ghent University
- 1994 – 1995Postdoctoral Researcher Ghent University
- 1995 – 1999Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research Foundation Flanders
- 1999 – 2010Associate Professor Ghent University
- Since 2010Full Professor Ghent University
Since Oct. 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Ghent University
Selected publications
Sire, het volk mort. Sociaal protest in België 1831-1918. Antwerpen, 1997, 416 p.
Les turbulences de la Belle Epoque (1878-1905). Brussel, 2005, 219 p.
(with Jeroen Deploige), Mystifying the monarch. Studies on discourse, power and history. Amsterdam, 2006, 296 p.
Leopold I. De eerste koning van Europa. Antwerpen-Amsterdam, 2011, 736 p.
From the ivory tower. 200 years of Ghent University. Ghent, 2018, 346 p.
Complete list of publications
Selected projects
2010 – 2014: supervisor Phd-project Greet De Bock, Aristocratic women in the corridors of power. Gender, sexual morality and the public sphere in Vienna and London, 1814/15-1848.
2011 – 2015: promoter FWO-project The spectacle of socialism. A transnational and interdisciplinary social and architectural history of People's Palaces in European cities (1900 – 1914).
2012-2017 Durf her-denken. UGentMemorie, bouwen aan het geheugen van de UGent (1817-2017)
2013 – 2017: promoter FWO-project Charismatic leadership in social movements in Belgium during the interwar years. Hendrik De Man, minister in shirtsleeves, in a comparative perspective
2014 – 2018: supervisor PhD-project Egon Bauwelinck, The case for presentism: Georges Sorel (1847 – 1922), Charles Péguy (1873 – 1914) and their legacy
2015-2019: supervisor PhD-project Laura Nys, Mixed feelings. Emotion, gender and discipline in ego-documents of youth offenders (1890-1965)
Membership in scientific bodies/juries
Expertpanel Cult3 Research Foundation Flanders
Universitaire Stichting/Fondation Universitaire
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België/Royal Flemish Academy
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