Two IISH junior researchers, Jelle van Lottum and Danielle van den Heuvel, have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Scientific funding organisation Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO). The grant will allow the two historians, who will defend their PhD this fall, to develop their international research experience.
Danielle van den Heuvel's project is called 'Commercialization and Institutional Forces. Retail Guilds and the Rise of Consumer Society in North-Western Europe, c. 1600-1800'. She starts from the fact that the ground for the present day Consumption Society was laid in West Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She will look into how guilds influenced the modernisation of shops and consumer behaviour in Germany, England and the Netherlands. She will be based at the Economics Faculty of the University of Cambridge, and work under the supervision of prof. Sheilagh Ogilvie.
Jelle van Lottum's project is called 'Labour migration in a changing World: The case of England and the Netherlands, 1600-1900'. He focuses on migration and the connection with economic development. Jelle van Lottum will look at the way these two processes influenced each other in Northwestern Europe between 1600 and 1900. He will be based with the Cambridge Group of Population and Social Structure van de University of Cambridge (Geography Department), and work under the supervision of prof. Richard Smith.
In the Netherlands 33 researchers received a Rubicon grant in the present round of the programme. These candidates were selected from 89 proposals on the basis of their ability to do innovating research in a excellent scholarly environment.