Prof. Dr. Gita Deneckere, Ghent University, Ghent University
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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

  • 1986
    Licentiate in history Ghent University

  • 1988 – 1992
    Research fellow National Fund for Scientific Research Belgium

  • 1993
    PhD in history Ghent University

  • 1994 – 1995
    Postdoctoral Researcher Ghent University

  • 1995 – 1999
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research Foundation Flanders

  • 1999 – 2010
    Associate Professor Ghent University

  • Since 2010
    Full 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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