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Eleá de la Porte is an assistant professor specializing in Political History at Radboud University. She focuses on Dutch and European Enlightenment with a particular attention to intellectual history. Currently, she is involved in a new research project on the political position of women between 1750 and 1850. She studied History at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her PhD in 2019 with a research project on historical thinking and identity formation during the Dutch Enlightenment. Her thesis, 'Enlightened Stories: The Engagement with the Past of the Dutch Enlightenment', is set to be published this year by Amsterdam University Press. In 2021, she served as a research fellow at the Teylers Foundation in Haarlem, exploring the origins of Teylers Library (1780-1837). As an independent historian, she has contributed articles to Geschiedenis Magazine. Previously, she taught Early Modern and Dutch History at the University of Amsterdam and has been an editor and interviewer at the Historisch Café Amsterdam since 2011. She is also a board member of the Working Group Eighteenth Century and chairs the science committee of the Teylers Foundation.
Radboud University • Nijmegen
Teaching and researching political history, focusing on Dutch and European Enlightenment.
Independent •
Writing articles and conducting research.
University of Amsterdam •
Taught courses and conducted research.
Historisch Café Amsterdam •
Engaged with public history through interviews and editorial work.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).