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Current projects

Contesting fiscal fairness. Explaining fiscal reform in the 18th-century Austrian Netherlands (1749-1794).

Managing Markets: Commercial Institutions in the Principalities of the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries Compared

The Make-Up of the City: A Transdisciplinary Study of Urban Society in the Pre-Modern Low Countries

Product quality and governance in the making of the consumer society: selling meat in late- and post-corporative Brussels (1770- 1860)

Policing mobility. Daily interactions between the Brussels police and 'marginal migrants', c. 1880-1914.

Inequality, Migration and Social Relations in Urban Brabant and Flanders, c. 1350-1914

History of the European city in the High and Late Middle Ages (c. 1000 - 1500)

DH-CoDe – Digital Historical Collection of Court Depositions from the Southern Low Countries (18th-19th centuries)

Interdisciplinary Research Program: Cities and Newcomers: Arrival infrastructure, multi-scalar statehood and professional intermediaries

Interdisciplinary Research Program: Tradition and naturalness of animal products within a societal context of change

Surviving old age: coping strategies of the elderly labouring poor in Gent, Brussels and Antwerp, 1750-1850.

Domestic energy consumption before and during the early industrial revolution: Belgium and the Netherlands compared (1600-1850)

Gender, migration and distance. Maidservants as agents of change in the democratization of long-distance migration in Antwerp and Brussels, 1850-1900

HOTSPOTS – Social Hotspots, Procesdossiers als bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de vroegmoderne Nederlanden

Building Brussels. Brussels city builders and the production of space, 1794-2015

The Urban Socio-professional spaces in a comparative perspective. Bruges and Mechlin, 14th-16th centuries