Team & expertise

Responsibilities and Expertise of the Scientific staff per Domain

Nico Wouters : Head of the Fourth Operational Directorate (Second World War (local administration and collaboration, policy of the lesser evil, persecution of Jews) and the role of states in history and commemorative policies)
Koen Aerts: PEOPLE@WAR
Michael Auwers : research (Belgian foreign policy, Cold War, First World War, diplomacy, democratisation) and support for the Journal of Belgian History
Anne Chardonnens : Digitisation (digital humanities, quality of digital data)
Alain Colignon : Library and public information (20th century conflicts (1914-1950), collaboration, resistance, geopolitics, memory and collective representations, social semiology)
Widukind De Ridder : BELCOWAR
Gertjan Desmet : Archives management (military justice, Jewish populations in Belgium, private associations)
Chantal Kesteloot : Public history (history of Brussels, war memories, nationalism and identity)
Dirk Luyten : Research (legal history, socio-economic history, social policy)
Fabrice Maerten : Valorisation of the collections (resistance, Catholic world, Second World War, Hainaut, daily life)
Isabelle Ponteville : Communication & events

Domain and Tasks

Archives: Gertjan Desmet, Fabrice Maerten (+ Volunteers : Roland Baumann, Dora Beullens, Bernard Burton, Emile Dejehansart, Yves Delvaux, Marc De Win, Jonathan D'Haese, Francis Lambrechts, Dirk Martin, Yvette Martin, Pierre Mortier, Felix Oberhuber, Julika Schulze, Alexandre Stroinovski, Nico Theunissen)
Library: Alain Colignon, Hilde Keppens, Kathleen Vandenberghe + (Volunteer : Marie Kozyreff)
Audio-visual archives: Gertjan Desmet, Anne Chardonnens, Somaya Bounekoub, Isabelle Sampieri
Public history: Chantal Kesteloot
Reading Room: Somaya Bounekoub, Hilde Keppens, Kathleen Vandenberghe
Digitalization: Anne Chardonnens, Mathias Tuybens, Somaya Bounekoub, Moussa Lasouad
Communication & Events : Isabelle Ponteville
Journal of Belgian History: Nico Wouters, Dirk Luyten, Hilde Keppens, Michael Auwers

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