Ik ben als historicus werkzaam in Londen. Ik schrijf columns voor de Volkskrant, en mijn essays en opiniestukken zijn verschenen in NRC en De Groene Amsterdammer. In oktober 2024 verscheen De mythe van het gezin bij Uitgeverij Pluim.

I am a historian of modern Europe. I am a 2023-26 Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. My research interests include the political, legal and social history of the twentieth century, and the history of feminism, gender, and sexuality. My monograph-in-progress examines 1970s feminist thought and praxis, and the transformation of gender-based violence—in public perception, social science, and the law—from a private matter to a state concern. My second book-length project, a feminist history of the present, deals with narratives of progress and regression.

I hold a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and an M.A. from the University of Amsterdam.

My academic writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in Global Intellectual History, CSSAAME, New German Critique, German Politics and Society, and several edited collections including The Routledge Handbook in the History and Sociology of Ideas (2023). I previously served as Managing Editor of International Labor and Working-Class History. I am deeply committed to writing for a wide audience alongside my academic work.

In 2021 I received an Emerging Scholar Award from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. My work has been generously funded by organizations including the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright, the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, DAAD, the Cultuurfonds, the American Historical Association, the New York Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, the Central European History Society, the Council for European Studies and the Columbia Heyman Center for the Humanities.