Most popular programs
Trending now
Postdoctoral Researcher in History at KU Leuven
Sara Cosemans studied history at KU Leuven and obtained a dual degree in International and World history at Columbia University and the London School of Economics. In December 2021, she defended her PhD, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and conducted at KU Leuven, entitled 'The Internationalization of the Refugee Problem. Resettlement from the Global South during the 1970s'. For this project on the international resettlement of the Ugandan Asians, Chileans and Vietnamese, she conducted research in over 20 archives in 8 countries on 5 continents, including the UNHCR archives in Geneva, and the American, British, Australian, Ugandan, Vietnamese, and Chilean National archives. Together with an interdisciplinary team, she developed a groundbreaking method to deal with large collections of research data, consisting of digitized typewritten and digitally-born sources (such as electronic telegrams that started to emerge in the 1970s). More information on the method can be found in Grant, Philip, Ratan Sebastian, Marc Allassonnière-Tang and Sara Cosemans. 2021. Topic Modelling on Archive Documents from the 1970s: Global Policies on Refugees. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Advance articles: 1-22. doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab018
She currently works as Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Group Cultural History since 1750 at KU Leuven and as an assistant professor at the School of Social Sciences at UHasselt. She is currently setting up a project regarding debates on human mobility and freedom of movement in the context of the creation of international law between the 1940s and 1960s.