Academic staff
Dr Irina Marin (Programme Coordinator)
Irina Marin is Assistant Professor in Political History at Utrecht University and a core teacher of the Master's programme in History. In this capacity she is in charge of MA theses, admissions and tutoring. She specializes in Modern European History with emphasis on Central and Eastern European history, in particular the social dynamics of imperial borderlands, nationalism and identity politics as well as social violence.
Dr Corinne Boter
Corinne Boter is Assistant Professor Economic and Social History. Her research agenda seeks to understand the long-term development of gender labour market inequality over the past two centuries. As a core teacher in the Master History of Politics and Society, she is responsible for the coordination of the internships
Prof. James Kennedy
James Kennedy (1963) is Professor of Modern Dutch History at the Faculty of Humanities and Distinguished University Professor with a special assignment on community engaged learning at Utrecht University. His expertise is postwar history, in the first instance the Netherlands but also with an eye to transnational and comparative perspectives.
Dr Devin Vartija
Devin Vartija is Assistant Professor in Political History at Utrecht University. He is an intellectual historian who specialises in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, examining the tensions between equality and racialism in European thought. Within the MA History of Politics and Society, he teaches the course ‘Democracy and Democratization’ and supervises MA theses.
Dr Jessica Dijkman
Jessica Dijkman is Associate Professor in Economic History, who studies the way societies in late medieval and early modern Europe coped with food crises and famines.
Dr Swantje Falcke
Swantje Falcke is an Assistant Professor in Economic and Social History specialized in the field of migrant integration and naturalization. Currently she is involved in a project looking at the effectiveness of integration policies for refugees’ labor market integration in the Netherlands from a long-term perspective.