Prof. Dr Danielle van den Heuvel

Danielle van den Heuvel researches the social dynamics of the home, investigating questions of household formation, domestic labour, segregation and mobility and their relation to material and spatial contexts of premodern cities in Europe and Asia.

Dr Britta Schilling

Britta Schilling researches the cultures, technologies and politics of the home in colonial sub-Saharan Africa, colonial memory in European homes, and questions of heritage and preservation.

Dr Tatiana Acevedo Guerrero

I am a researcher and teacher from Santander, Colombia. I currently work as Assistant Professor at the Copernicus Institute, Utrecht University. I have experience in interdisciplinary social-environmental studies, learned from, mostly Colombian, schools and universities, but also through the environmental and political struggles which I have had the honor to accompany. My work is situated broadly at the intersection of urban studies and feminist political ecology, but I also cultivate interests in Caribbean, Colombian and Latin American studies.

Dr Richard Calis

Richard Calis is interested in households as sites of art, science, and knowledge making. His work investigates how the gendered organisation of early modern households made it possible for men and women to develop themselves intellectually (though not equally) in a variety of scholarly and artistic fields—from collecting botanical specimens to copying ancient manuscripts. As such, his research aims to make visible the various forms of labour essential for intellectual and artistic work as well as the social-cultural circumstances that made science in the period after 1500. 

Dr Janna Coomans

Janna Coomans studies the social history of the Middle Ages with a focus on cities, materiality and health. She had published books on precarity and daily life (Dievenland: Overleven in de Middeleeuwen) and public health (Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries).  

Yasmin Morgan

Yasmin is a Research Master’s Student of Modern and Contemporary History and research assistant for the Thuis project. They are interested in histories of colonialisation, material culture, circular practices and the home.

Dr Bas Spliet

Bas Spliet is a Doctor in History and works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Economic and Social History group of Utrecht University. His research interests converge around the birth of our modern economy and society between 1600 and 1900, including developments in housing inequality, residential segregation, and living standards.

His latest article, forthcoming in Urban History, examines the emergence of apartment-style dwellings in early modern Amsterdam.

Chris Vlam

Chris Vlam researches the political and social contributions of housing associations and their overarching interest organisations in the Netherlands in the 19^th and 20^th centuries. She analyses how these bottom-up associations have impacted individual and community wellbeing and studies key differences between housing association and private market housing, particularly regarding housing affordability, quality, and shortages.

­­Dr Wendy Wiertz

Wendy Wiertz explores the historical and societal impact of objects and women’s lived experiences in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She specifically investigates how physical everyday objects, – particularly textiles and craft -, act as tools for identity, domesticity, communities, and international networks in times of peace, war and crisis.

Dr Flore Janssen

Flore Janssen’s interest in the home has grown out of her research into nineteenth-century narratives around social activism. She is particularly interested in questions of gender and social class and has studied the role and representation of the home in the context of socio-economic marginalisation. This has included research into home-based work, urban street life, accommodation provision by social and charity institutions, and model housing. 

Dr Monica Jansen

Monica Jansen investigates the concepts of home, housing and belonging through the lenses of transnational, postmigrant and postsecular Italy. She is especially interested in modernist architectural dialogues between Italy and the Netherlands; the meaning of home in postgenerational guestworker narratives; representations of labor mobilities in literature, cinema and photography. 

Dr Manuela Pinto

Manuela research explores language as a social and human phenomenon, with a particular focus on migration, multilingualism, identity, and belonging. She is currently involved in several projects examining how migration shapes identities, languages, memories, and experiences of home across generations. She is committed to engaged humanities, combining academic research with close collaboration with societal partners and knowledge exchange beyond academia.