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Tom Verschaffel

Professor of History at KU Leuven

About me

Tom Verschaffel (1964) studied History at KU Leuven and the European University Institute in Florence. He obtained his doctorate in 1996 with a dissertation on the historiography in the Austrian Netherlands. His research focuses on the historiography and the broad historic culture of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century, public history and the visual representation of the past, cultural nationalism, and the history of cultural institutions in the fields of literature and the visual arts.

Some of his recent publications are De hoed en de hond. Geschiedschrijving in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden 1715-1794 (1998), Mise-en-Scène. Keizer Karel en de verbeelding van de negentiende eeuw (ed. with Robert Hoozee and Jo Tollebeek, 1999), , Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century. Architecture, Art and Literature (ed. with Linda van Santvoort and Jan de Maeyer, 2008), Historism and cultural identity in the Rhine-Meuse region (ed. with Wolfgang Cortjaens, 2008), Cultural mediation in Europa, 1800-1950 (ed. with Reyne Meylaerts and Lieven D’hulst, 2017), De weg naar het binnenland. Geschiedenis van de Nederlandse literatuur, 1700-1800: de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (2016), and Sculpting abroad. Nationality and mobility in the nineteenth century (ed. with Marjan Sterckx, 2020).