Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Social history since 1750; Public history; Women and gender history: Theory and methodology of historical sciences.
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
Henriëtte de Beaufort Prize 2013
Prix Jean Stengers 2014
Scientific Outreach Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België/Royal Flemish Academy 2018
Dutch, English, French, German
Since Oct. 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Philosophy Ghent University
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.
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)
Expertpanel Cult3 Research Foundation Flanders
Universitaire Stichting/Fondation Universitaire
Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België/Royal Flemish Academy
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Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology, ethnology, sociology
Humanities, Archaeological Prehistory, Paleovegetation and paleolandscape reconstruction, use of plant resources by past populations, plant diet, fossil plant microremains (phytoliths)
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Social and behavioural sciences, Organization Theory, Gender studies