Danielle van den Heuvel
Danielle is Professor of Early Modern Social and Economic History at Utrecht University and the project's leader. She has an interest in the history of women’s work, retailing, informality, food, material culture, housing and of course, streets.
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Bob Pierik
Bob finished his PhD on gender and mobility in Amsterdam within the project. He is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to early modern urban history, gender history and issues in political economy.
Read more about the Amsterdam project, to which Bob will remain connected as an affiliated researcher.
Marie Yasunaga
Marie is a guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature and culture. Her expertise centers on interdisciplinary studies in the history of cultural exchange via art and literature between Europe and Asia.
As a postdoctoral researcher, she was in charge of conducting research in the Edo project, to which Marie will remain connected as an affiliated researcher.
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Bébio Amaro
Bébio is a Doctor of Engineering, specializing in the architectural, urban and territorial history of Japanese port towns during the 16th and 17th centuries. Other interests include exchanges between Europeans and Asians during this period, as well as Medieval art.
As an affiliated researcher Bébio contributes to the Edo project.
The project team with advisory board members Miki sugiura, takeshi ito and masashi haneda
Advisory Board
Professor Donatella Calabi, Emerita professor of Urban History, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy.
Professor Laura Gowing, Department of History, Kings College London, United Kingdom.
Professor Masashi Haneda, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Professor Takeshi Ito, Professor at the School of Cultural and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University
Professor Miki Sugiura, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University Tokyo, Japan.
Previous Team Members
Eléonore Beck
Eléonore Beck is a doctoral assistant at the University of Geneva and a visiting researcher with the FOSGUS project. In her PhD research, she focuses on gender and political conflicts at the end of the 18th century in Geneva and Besancon. She studies practices of everyday resistance, the political uses of urban spaces by populations and the way gender identities were reshaped during this pivotal period.
Gamze Saygi
Gamze Saygi, PhD, is an architect and an expert in heritage research. As a scholar, she combines traditional research notions of history, culture and society with digital methods to explore historic built environments, and investigates how heritage artefacts were designed, used, perceived and transformed.
Gamze conducted the Digital Urban History project as a postdoctoral researcher.
Charlotte Meijer
Charlotte is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in environmental history, big history, and human-animal studies.
Charlotte worked with Danielle on the Eurasian Perspectives project.
Maroesjka Verhagen
Maroesjka is a Research Master History student at the University of Amsterdam, currently working on her thesis. She is interested in early modern relationships between society and nature through agriculture, (women’s) work, food, and knowledge.
Maroesjka conducted archival research on Bloemstraat in relation with the Digital Urban History project.
Eva van Kemenade
Eva is a History Research Master student at the University of Amsterdam. She specialises in early modern History of the Book, History of Ideas and power relations within urban space as expressed in popular culture.
Eva worked with Danielle on the Eurasian Perspective project
Lisa Hellman
Lisa is a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate School Intellectual Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.
Lisa was a Visiting Researcher in our project in the summer of 2018 and a speaker at our ‘Mobilities in History’ Workshop.
Student Contributors
Demi Tuijp
Marie Keulen
Pim van Rooijen
Erik-Jan Kanne
Isabel Flens
Charlotte Meijer
Renate Smit
Louisa Rozenkranz
Imke Chatrou
Judith Kraamwinkel
