People

Dr Dirk van Miert
Dirk van Miert is principal investigator and project leader of the ERC funded project ‘Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society’ (SKILLNET). He…
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Dr Cristiano Amendola
Cristiano Amendola is an associate research fellow on the SKILLNET project. He holds a BA in Modern Literature and an MA in Italian philology from Federico II University of Naples….
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Dr Robin Buning
Robin Buning is project assistant in the SKILLNET project. He received his MA in classics from Leiden University and his PhD in the history of philosophy from Utrecht University. He then…
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Dr Karen Hollewand
Karen Hollewand is a postdoc in the SKILLNET project and concentrates on the conceptual history of the ideal of sharing knowledge in the Republic of Letters. She received a BA…
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Manuel Llano MA
Manuel Llano is a PhD candidate in the SKILLNET project. He studied Philosophy of Culture and Media Studies at Leiden University, after earning a degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous…
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Dr Liliana Melgar
Liliana Melgar holds a PhD in Information Science from the Carlos III University in Madrid, in which she investigated scholarly annotations and crowdsourcing for audiovisual content. She has a bachelor…
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Koen Scholten MSc
Koen Scholten is a PhD candidate in the SKILLNET project. He obtained a BSc in Applied Physics from Delft University and an MSc in History and Philosophy of Science from…
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Dr Ingeborg van Vugt
Ingeborg van Vugt is a postdoc in the SKILLNET project and focuses on the social dynamics structuring the conduct and behaviour of the citizens of the Republic of Letters. Using…
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Isabelle Buhre MSc MA (research assistant April 2018-June 2019)
Isabelle Buhre was a research assistant at the SKILLNET project. She studied Latin language and literature at the University of Amsterdam and KU Leuven (BA), and political science at the…
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Nienke van Doeselaar (intern September 2019-January 2020)
Nienke van Doeselaar is a BA student interning in the SKILLNET project. She is following a BA in Dutch Language and Culture in Utrecht, with a minor in the history…
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Ellen van Heteren (intern September 2019-January 2020)
Ellen van Heteren is a BA student of history at the Free University of Amsterdam and has a special interest for medieval/early modern European history. She will be helping the…
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Milo van de Pol MA (data curator May-October 2019)
Milo van de Pol is data curator in the SKILLNET project and at the Huygens Institute of Netherlands History in Amsterdam. He received his MA in Medieval Studies from Utrecht University….
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Leonie Price MA (associate research fellow February-June 2019)
Leonie Price was an associate research fellow working on the SKILLNET project. She holds a BA in History from Durham University and recently graduated with an MA in Historical Research…
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Lars Punt BA (intern February-June 2020)
Lars Punt is an intern in the SKILLNET project. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History which he obtained in 2019 at Utrecht University. Lars is mostly interested in Early…
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Teunie Rouwendal BA (intern February-June 2020)
Teunie Rouwendal is a BA student English Language and Culture at Utrecht University and is interning in the SKILLNET project. She is mainly interested in literature from the Late Medieval…
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Halfdan Simonsen BA (intern October 2018-January 2019)
Halfdan Simonsen was an MA student interning in the SKILLNET project. He obtained his BA in history from the University of Bergen and then worked with artists and musicians establishing…
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Samantha Sint Nicolaas BA (intern February-May 2018)
Samantha Sint Nicolaas was an MA student interning in the SKILLNET project. She graduated in history from Durham University in 2017. Having been introduced to French cultural history during her…
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Nathalie Smit BA (intern January-June 2020)
Nathalie Smit is a Research Master student Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen and is interning in the SKILLNET project. She received a BA in English Language…
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