Education

PhD history of (veterinary) medicine, Utrecht University (2017)
University Teaching Qualification (BKO), UMC Utrecht (2016)
MA Historical and Comparative Studies of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University and University of Minnesota (2012)
BA Dutch Language and Culture, Utrecht University (2010)
BSc Biology, Utrecht University (2009)

Career

Floor Haalboom obtained her doctorate in 2017 at Utrecht University with the dissertation ‘Negotiating Zoonoses’, on the societal dealings with infectious diseases shared by humans and livestock (‘zoonoses’) in the Netherlands between 1898 and 2001. The dissertation received a lot of national media attention in the context of the Q-fever crisis (2017-2018) and the covid-19 pandemic (2020-2021). Haalboom works as assistant professor in medical and environmental history at the Erasmus MC (since 2017), and since 2024 also at the Center for Sustainable Animal Stewardship at the UU Veterinary Faculty. In 2018-2019, Haalboom was Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, working on the project ‘Feeding Factory Farms’. In 2020-2021, Haalboom worked as post-doctoral historian on the patient history of diabetes as part of the Dutch Research Council-funded project ‘Health and disease as practical concepts - a pragmatist approach to the conceptualization of health and disease’ (led by prof. dr. Maartje Schermer). From mid-2021 to mid-2025, Haalboom led her Dutch Research Council-funded Veni-project ‘What does your meat eat? A global environmental history of Dutch livestock feed (1954-2020)’. At UU, Haalboom is a member of the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, and the Network for Environmental Humanities.