Dr. Anne Petterson

Biography

Anne Petterson is an Associate Professor at Radboud University specializing in Political History within the Department of History. Her research interests center around local and national political identity formation, particularly focusing on the daily lives of ordinary citizens during the 19th and 20th centuries, including broader Dutch and European developments. Currently, she is exploring Dutch rural societies from 1900, investigating the social changes affecting rural populations and the division between urban and rural areas. Petterson earned her Doctorate in History from Leiden University, defending her dissertation on popular nationalism in 19th-century Amsterdam in 2017. Her dissertation, titled 'Eigenwijs vaderland', was published by Prometheus and recognized with the Dirk Jacob Veegens Prize by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences in 2018. She has served as a university lecturer at both Leiden University and Utrecht University, and from 2016 to 2018, she was the managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal 'Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis'. In the academic year 2019-2020, she was a Research Fellow at the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. In 2019, alongside colleagues, she secured funding from the KNAW for a research project titled 'Redelijkheid omstreden. Debatregels en de toegang tot democratie, 1870-1940', running from 2020 to 2023.

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