Dr. Dries Raeymaekers

Biography

Dries Raeymaekers teaches Early Modern History at Radboud University. His specialization lies in political culture during the early modern period, with a particular focus on the history of royal and princely dynasties, courts, and the aristocracy of Western Europe. Raeymaekers has published extensively on topics such as princely favorites, ladies-in-waiting, and the politics of access at early modern courts. He studied History at the University of Leuven and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Antwerp in 2009. Following this, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). His doctoral dissertation focused on the Habsburg Court in Brussels during the reign of Archdukes Albert and Isabella (1598-1621) and received the Provincial Prize for Historical Research in 2010 from Flemish-Brabant, Belgium. He was awarded the Encouragement Prize for Young Scholars by the University of Antwerp. In 2015, he received the University Teaching Award from Radboud University. He also held a Fulbright Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in early 2010. As a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London) in Spring 2019, he conducted research related to his academic interests. In 2022, he was a guest researcher at the Centre Roland Mousnier (Paris-Sorbonne) and the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles. In 2025, he is set to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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