Marijke Huisman is associate professor of Public History in the Department of History and Art History.

Her research focuses on relationships between public and academic forms of historiography, often focusing on auto/biographical representations of the past. In her monograph on slave autobiographies (2015), she analysed the significance of slave narratives for public and professional-historical dealings with the slavery past in Britain, the United States and the Netherlands between 1789 and 2013. In her PhD thesis (2008), she connected the nineteenth-century memoir boom with the rise of a modern historical consciousness and examined, among other things, the role of gender in writing history in an autobiographical manner. She has also published on other aspects of life writing, the history of feminism, and Mata Hari.

She contributed to several projects as a participating public historian, most recently a history of Centraal Boekhuis (2021) and feminist bookstore Savannah Bay (2019). She previously worked for KNHG on the Historicidagen 2017, created an educational website on posters from the second feminist wave for Atria. Knowledge Institute for Emancipation and Women's History (2002-2003), and collaborated on histories of Utrecht University (2001) and the Catholic Women's Labour Movement (2000-2001) and projects around the commemoration of the National Exhibition of Women's Labour (1998). In addition, she served as editor of Vernieuwing. Tijdschrift voor onderwijs en opvoeding (1997-2005) and publications in the field of the Broad School.