Scholar
Inger Leemans
Google Scholar ID: xUJYH3YAAAAJ
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Citations & Impact
Citations
403
H-index
11
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She is a member of the Royal Netherands Society of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der Wetenschappen. She is a board member of the American Historical Review, the Dutch National Research Council for Cultural Heritage (NOE), the National Graduate School for Cultural History Huizinga Institute, the Thijssen-Schoute Stichting, and the Raad voor Geesteswetenschappen (KNAW Council for the Humanities). As chair of the Humanities Committee for Nationale Commissie Sectorplannen, Leemans advises the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW).
Research Experience
- Coordinated the Odeuropa project on olfactory heritage and sensory mining; also coordinated projects on the cultural history of finance, early modern visual culture and the culture of violence, and collaborated in various digital humanities projects (e.g., Clariah+, Golden Agents). For the Global Knowledge Society project, she coordinated the working group 'Knowledge and the Market', resulting in the volume 'Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies: Knowledge – Market – Affect' (Routledge).
Education
- No specific educational background information provided.
Background
- Professor of Cultural History at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and PI of NL-Lab, a research group on Dutch Culture and Identity at the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Her research focuses on early modern cultural history, the history of emotions and the senses, cultural economy, history of knowledge, and digital humanities. She has published about the history of pornography, (radical) Enlightenment, cultural infrastructure, stock markets, and financial crises. Her textbook on eighteenth-century literature 'Worm en donder. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur 1700-1800' (co-author Gert-Jan Johannes) was hailed in the press as ‘a masterpiece’.
Miscellany
- Her research often triggers media attention, such as articles in Financiële Dagblad, Elsevier, NRC, and Trouw, and her TedX Talk on 'Making Sense of Finance'.
