Dr. Devin Vartija

Universitair docent
Politieke geschiedenis
Politieke Geschiedenis
d.j.vartija@uu.nl

Sleutelpublicaties

Vartija, D. (2021). The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought. (Intellectual History of the Modern Age). University of Pennsylvania Press.

Publicaties

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. (2025). “Escaping the Blackmail of Enlightenment”: Race and Equality in Eighteenth-Century Thought. In Rassismus in der Aufkläruing (pp. 116-142). Mitteldeutscher Verlag.
Vartija, D. (2025). “Teaching men to doubt”: Epistemological Debates in Enlightenment Encyclopaedias. In Credulity in the Age of Reason Honore Champion.

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D., & Bermejo, S. M. (2023). Inequalities in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1500–1800). In J. Hansen, J. Hung, J. Ira, J. Klement, S. Lesage, J. L. Simal, & A. Tompkins (Eds.), The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000 (pp. 231-240). OpenBook Publishers. [DOI] [Portal]
Quirós Rosado, R., & Vartija, D. (2023). Peace and Conflict in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1500–1800). In J. Hansen, J. Hung, J. Ira, J. Klement, S. Lesage, J. L. Simal, & A. Tompkins (Eds.), The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000 (pp. 363-372). OpenBook Publishers. [DOI] [Portal]
Vartija, D. (2023). Imagining a World of Equals: Capitalism and Daily Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Paper presented at The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2023 Conference, Rome, Italy.
Vartija, D. (2023). The Historiography of Race in Enlightenment Thought. In Essays on Theory, Method and Historiography Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. (2022). Review of Stéphane Pujol, Morale et sciences des mœurs dans l’Encyclopédie. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2021. 462 pp. Bibliography and index. €58.00. ISBN 9782745355669. H-France Review, 22(104). [Repository]
Vartija, D. (2022). Natural Equality and Racial Inequality: An Enlightenment Paradox? . In J. T. D. Gärtner, & M. S. Wilckens (Eds.), Racializing Humankind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practices of 'Race' and Racism (pp. 213-232). Bohlau Verlag. [DOI]

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. (2021). Equality: A Western Achievement? Review of Aldo Schiavone, Une histoire de l’égalité: Leçons pour le XXIe siècle, trans. Giulia Puma (Paris: Fayard, 2020). Politika.
Vartija, D. (2021). The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought. (Intellectual History of the Modern Age). University of Pennsylvania Press.
Vartija, D. J. (2021). Revisiting Enlightenment Racial Classification: Time and the Question of Human Diversity. Intellectual History Review, 31(4), 603-625. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. J. (2020). Introduction to the Special Issue 'Enlightenment and Modernity'. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 8(3-4), 235-245. [DOI] [Repository]
Vartija, D. J. (2020). Wat de Verlichting bijeenhield: Gelijkheid, maatschappij en godsdienst in achttiende-eeuwse encyclopedieën. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 133(2), 205-227. Article 23. [DOI] [Repository]
Vartija, D. J. (2020). The Here and Now: The Enlightenment Origins of Secularism. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 133(1), 133-135.

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. J. (2019). ‘Review: Anne C. Vila. “Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France,” (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)'. Isis, 110(3), 603-604.
Vartija, D. J. (2019). The Practice and Promise of Citizenship. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7(1), 765-769.
Vartija, D. J. (2019). Racism and Modernity. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7(1), 1-15.

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. J. (2018). The Colour of Equality: Racial Classification and Natural Equality in Enlightenment Encyclopaedias . [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University.

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. J. (2017). Empathy, Equality, and the Radical Enlightenment. In S. Ducheyne (Ed.), Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment (pp. 274-291). Routledge.

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. J. (2016). Justin E. H. Smith. Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy. ix + 296 pp., figs., bibl., index. Princeton, N.J./Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. $39.95 (cloth). Isis, 107(4), 832-833. [Repository]

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Vartija, D. (2014). Review: Richard Squibbs, Urban Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essay: Transatlantic Retrospects. TS: Tijdschrift voor Tijdschriftstudies, 36, 155-157.