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Dr. Jan Vandersmissen
Dr. Jan Vandersmissen
jan.vandersmissen@ugent.be
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-2208
Department
Department of History
Research group(s)
ECC - Economies, Comparisons, Connections
SARTON - Sarton Centre for History of Science
SocialHistory - Social History since 1750
Other institution(s)
Member and Past President (2019) - Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences (Brussels)
Board member & Treasurer (2017-2025) - Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences (Paris)
Research Focus
History
Research Period
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Research Region
Africa
Belgium
Western Europe
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as postdoc
The road to Alexandria. The sensation of landscapes in European travel writing, 1919-1939
(
2021
-
2025
)
Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology, 1830-1952
(
2018
-
2022
)
'Les Indes africaines' versus 'Le Congo minotaure'. Climate, acclimatization, hygiene and the contested idealization of the imperial project of Leopold II in Congo, 1876-1908
(
2017
-
2020
)
Environment as object and actor of conquest and conservationism in (post)imperial Africa
Publications
Most recent publications
Vandersmissen, Jan, and Christophe Verbruggen. “Governing Belgian Expansionism in Egypt : The Practice of Interlocking Directorates (1893-1947).”
JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 53, no. 3, 2023, pp. 18–46.
Huskens, Gert, et al. “Lifting the Veil of Levantine Cosmopolitanism : Diplomatic Networking in Egypt, 1873-1914.”
DH_Budapest_2022 & DARIAH DAYS Conference, Abstracts
, 2022.
Verbruggen, Christophe, et al. “Social Reform International Congresses and Organizations (1846-1914) : From Sources to Data.”
JOURNAL OF OPEN HUMANITIES DATA
, vol. 8, 2022, doi:10.5334/johd.69.
D’haeninck, Thomas, et al. “Public Health, Hygiene and Social Activism.”
Medical Histories of Belgium : New Narratives on Health, Care and Citizenship in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
, edited by Joris Vandendriessche and Benoît Majerus, vol. 41, Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 134–68, doi:10.7765/9781526151070.00010.
Vandersmissen, Jan, and Lisa van Diem. “‘Les Indes Africaines’ versus ’Le Congo Minotaure’ : Debatten over Klimaat, Acclimatisatie, Hygiëne En de Idealisering van Het Imperiaal Project van Leopold II in Congo, 1876-1908.”
JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 51, no. 3, 2021, pp. 8–35.
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