Danielle van den Heuvel
Danielle van den Heuvel (co-organizer of the 2022 Conference) is Associate Professor in Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History. Her research has an interdisciplinary focus and centres around two main themes: the impact of institutions on groups in the margins of early modern society, and life in city streets before industrialisation. She is the author of the prize-winning Women and entrepreneurship. Female traders in the Northern Netherlands c.1580-1815 (Amsterdam 2007), and her work has appeared in journals such as SIGNS, Continuity and Change, Journal of Urban History, and The Historical Journal.
Since 2016 she directs The Freedom of the Streets Project, a large research project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. In the context of the project she is working on a book project on gendered urban experience in Edo, Amsterdam and Batavia. She is also editor of the Early Modern Streets: A European Perspective (forthcoming with Routledge), and has partnered with the UvA MA Education, HvA, F-Site and Studio Bertels to translate research findings from the Freedom of the Streets project into educational materials for secondary schools. Abstract
