2020-
Professor of Digital History, Utrecht University

2009-2020
Professor of Cultural History, Utrecht University

2013-2018
Head of Department, History and Art History, Utrecht University

2009-2018
Chair, Department of the History of Culture, Mentalities and Ideas since 1500, Utrecht University

2007-2009
Professor and Chair of Cultural History, VU University Amsterdam
Director Research Institute for Language, Culture and History

2005-2007
Associate professor (Senior Lecturer), University Amsterdam
Head of Section ‘Early Modern History’

2003-2005
Research fellow. Research grant, 2 years (open competition), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: ‘Professional identity, communication and the social history of knowledge’

2000-2003
Research fellow. Research grant, 3 years (open competition), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences: ‘Communication and history: sermons, religious historiography, press freedom’

1999-2000
Postdoctoral researcher, Institut für europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany. Research grant Volkswagen Stiftung, 2.5 years (open competition): ‘Eighteenth-century Dutch toleration debates’.

1998-1999
Postdoctoral researcher, VU University Amsterdam / Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany. Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Prize for the Humanities, research grant, 1 year (open competition), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/ Nordrhein-Westphälische Akademie der Wissenschaften: ‘Eighteenth-century cultural exchange between Germany and the Netherlands’.

1997-1998
Postdoctoral researcher, Institut für europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany. Research grant Volkswagen Stiftung, 2.5 years (open competition): ‘Eighteenth-century Dutch toleration debates’.

1994-1997
Postdoctoral researcher, VU University Amsterdam. Research grant, 3 years (open competition), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): ‘Willem Bilderdijk, 1756-1831: The intellectual world of a Dutch romantic’.

1993-1994
Trainee in telematics consultancy, Municipality of Amsterdam

1989-1993
PhD student (salaried), VU University Amsterdam. Research grant (PhD), 4 years: ‘Dutch Calvinism and the search for the social centre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’.