People

Danielle van den Heuvel

Danielle is an Associate Professor of Early Modern History and the project's leader. She has an interest in the history of women’s work, retailing, informality, food, material culture, and of course, streets.

Bob Pierik

Bob is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam. He is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to early modern urban history, gender history and issues in political economy.

Antonia Weiss

Antonia is a PhD candidate (buitenpromovendus) at the University of Amsterdam. She was trained as an architect and her interests as both designer and historian revolve around the social and political agency of public space.

Bébio Amaro

Bébio is a Doctor of Engineering, specializing in the architectural, urban and territorial history of Japanese port towns during the 16th and 17th centuries. Other interests include exchanges between Europeans and Asians during this period, as well as Medieval art.

As an affiliated researcher Bébio contributes to the Edo project.

Eva van Kemenade

Eva is a History Research Master student at the University of Amsterdam. She specialises in early modern History of the Book, History of Ideas and power relations within urban space as expressed in popular culture.

Eva works with Danielle on the Eurasian Perspective project

Visitors

Lisa Hellman

Lisa is a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate School Intellectual Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.

The project team with advisory board members Miki sugiura, takeshi ito and masashi haneda

Advisory Board

Professor Donatella Calabi, Emerita professor of Urban History, Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy.

Professor Laura Gowing, Department of History, Kings College London, United Kingdom.

Professor Masashi Haneda, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Professor Takeshi Ito, Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Professor Miki Sugiura, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University Tokyo, Japan.