About me

I am a Belgian cultural historian and sociologist, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University, Sweden. My work blends academic research with the development of public history and heritage projects, and I have experience in art criticism.

Since 2016, I have been doing research in the history of history-writing and the history and sociology of knowledge at Ghent University (MA in History 2017, PhD in History 2024), Lund University (2025) and at The University of Chicago (MA in the Social Sciences 2018). My academic work questions the past and present conditions in which knowledge is used and produced. Many of my publications deal with the politics and production of twentieth-century historical knowledge, but I also work more broadly on the history of universities and history of the humanities. I have been a visiting fellow in Florence (Vibeke Sørensen Grant 2018), Leiden, Roskilde and Utrecht (Descartes Fellowship).

I strongly believe in the significance of making academic research accessible to the broader public and in the power of narratives to touch people and transform our beliefs. In my roles as an academic, a history-enthusiast and as a feminist art-lover, I frequently share my thoughts through various public platforms. I worked as heritage consultant for KU Leuven Libraries and am working on a podcast project on unknown urban spaces and their histories in Antwerp (Belgium) with Troebel vzw. In this project, Maïté De Haan and myself explore the past, present, and future of places we have always passed by in our hometown, but which we have never before entered. In my free time, I am a museum guide at the Rubenshuis. Up to 2016, I was a freelance art critic, writing mostly about contemporary art, but also at times about theatre and performance arts. I also work(ed) as a volunteer, freelancer, and intern in a variety of cultural institutions and festivals in Flanders.