Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

My PhD is a comparative/transnational study of the post-war European Socialist/Social Democratic parties 1943-1948, focusing on the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party and the Polish Socialist Party in Eastern Europe as well as the French Socialist Party and the Italian Socialist Party in Western Europe. My project is divided in two parts. The first part deals with party dynamics: going into grassroots sentiments, domestic party competition and transnational influences. The second part examines how these pressures were reflected in the parties’ attitudes towards three key dimensions of Socialist/Social Democratic ideology: the nature of the economy, the conception of democracy and the role of the nation.  

Qualifications

• MA (Research): ‘History: Cities, States, Citizenship’ (cum laude), Utrecht University, September 2009
• BA: ‘History’ (cum laude), Utrecht University, September 2007

Research Clusters

• Transnational Europe
• Social and Cultural History

Discipline Areas

• History
• Area Studies
• Politics and Public Administration

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• Across the Iron Curtain: European Social Democracy between World War and Cold War, 1943-1948.

Journal Articles

• ‘“The Usual Psychological Effects of a Shotgun Wedding”. British Labour and the Socialist Parties in Eastern Europe, 1945-1948’, in: Bohemia 51/1 (2010), 138-162.
• ‘“Nacht over Europa”. De internationale sociaal-democratische beweging en de ondergang van de sociaal-democratie in Oost-Europa, 1945-1948’, in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 122/2 (2009), 178-193.

Grants Received

• PhD Bursary from the Centre for European and International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth, Sep. 2011-Sep. 2014.
• Grant of the Stichting Internationale Informatie en Communicatie for a research stay at the Labour History Archive and Study Centre in Manchester, Sep.-Dec. 2008.