Projects
Sabbatical Magaly RodrÃguez GarcÃa: A labour history of women in Ecuador KU Leuven
If the current health crisis allows, I would like to travel to Ecuador in the summer of 2021 for a project on women and labor in historical perspective. That project should result in a comparative analysis of the living and working conditions of subaltern, middle and high class women after 1976 (end of military dictatorship). Women's and Gender History in Ecuador is typified by its focus on indigenous women and middle-class feminists whose ...
Borderland(s) in motion: Borders, mobility and history in the Lake Kivu region Ghent University
Historical research on and about the border between Rwanda and the DRC (ca. 1880-1962)
The Social and Economic History of Central Africa: Beyond Capitalism and Colonialism. University of Antwerp
European and Global History of Religion KU Leuven
Since my original appointment I reoriented my research from Christian and international labour movements in the twentieth century to long-term global history, ‘decentering’ the European perspective, with religion as main focus. This path-breaking approach allows to question and re-evaluate standard interpretations on a wide range of subject. In this respect I published a historical essay with a decentering perspective on ideas about European ...
Sabbatical leave during professorship in history of the ancient world Ghent University
A sabbatical leave has the objective to free a professor from any teaching and/or administrative duties in order to devote oneself exclusively to their scientific research. Each professor uses this time according to one’s own objectives.
Play(s) of Féminitude. The role of female artists in Belgian theatre history 1830-1948 AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
An integrative framework for history teachers' adoption of inquirybased learning: Explaining current adoption and mapping short- and long-term effects of training offering extended support during implementation Ghent University
Inquiry-based learning is an instructional approach that provides students with authentic problems, and the materials necessary for drawing their own conclusions. According to educational research, inquiry-based learning is one of the most promising approaches to teaching history, as it contributes to an understanding of the content, as well as the ability to reason with historical information. Unfortunately, history lessons are often ...