Houssine Alloul

I am an Assistant Professor of Modern Global History at the University of Amsterdam. My research deals mainly with the cultural and social history of prewar diplomacy, especially in relation to class power and the state/finance nexus. Other research interests include popular Orientalism and Western travel in the eastern Medditerranean. At present, I am completing a book on the long, but forgotten history of Belgian-Ottoman encounters. I have also embarked on a new research project on the peripatetic lives of late Ottoman resident envoys in Europe. My previous publications can be accessed here.

Holden Carroll

I’m a PhD candidate at UvA’s Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, having embarked in February 2024 on the ‘Sonic Histories of Foreign Relations’ project. Prior to this appointment, I obtained an MPhil in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in Political Science from Montréal’s Concordia University. I am interested in critical histories of the international system and new frontiers of enquiry in international studies.

Josephine Hoegaerts

I’m Professor of European Culture after 1800. My research ranges widely and eccentrically from parliamentary politics to parrots, but (almost) always centres on vocal practices, and the effect they have on the world. I am currently finishing a book on the social history of speech and song in modern Western Europe. In the past, I have published on histories of gender, disability, and representation as well as on the methodological possibilities and challenges of including sounding voices in historical research.

Melvin Wevers

Since 2020, I am an Assistant Professor in Digital History at the University of Amsterdam. My research focuses on the application of computational methods to model historical processes. I do this by combining insights from the philosophy of history with the affordances of modeling techniques, such as time series analysis, bayesian statistics, deep/machine learning, and information theory.