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Full Professor of History at KU Leuven
Idesbald Goddeeris is a Slavist and a historian, and a full professor at the KU Leuven Research Unit MoSa (Modernity and Society 1800-2000). He teaches courses on colonial history, history of Poland, and history of India. His research mainly focuses on the relationship of our society with other cultures and political regimes, and he has examined this by means of the history of migration, European identities, transnational social movements, East-West and North-South contacts, communist secret services during the Cold War, and postcolonial memories. His current project is on the history of missionaries after decolonization, particularly in India and the DRC. He was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (2009), the University of Pennsylvania (2014), and the University of Oxford (2022) and recently also lectured at the universities of, inter alia, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Kinshasa, Krakow, and Irkutsk