prof.dr. (Gijsbert) G Oonk

Biography

Gijsbert Oonk holds the endowed (Jean Monnet) chair: Europe in Globalizing World: Migration, Citizenship and Identity. This chair promotes education and research in the field of Global History, European Studies and National Identity. The Jean Monnet chairs are an initiative of the European Commission to promote education, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies at higher education institutions. Oonk is director of the Sport and Nation research program at Erasmus University Rotterdam. This interdisciplinary research program focuses on talented athletes with a migrant background within football and the Olympic Games in the context of changing citizenship, multiple citizenship and elite migration. For more information see: www.sportandnation.com

Oonk is also one of the academic advisers of EUROCLIO (European Association of History Educators). The chair will inspire the EUROCLIO program: Engaging History Education through memories and legacies of Europe's favorite sports. This program aims to promote the historical thinking of young people through football. The shared history of Europe generates a strong sense of togetherness and responsibility. This feeling can bring about active citizenship, especially among young people who are often less interested in study and history. Another goal of the project is to write a textbook: The Constitution in Utopia? Towards a just world in ten cases. The intended target groups are students, history teachers in secondary education, journalists and policy makers.

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Full professor | Department of History
Email
oonk@eshcc.eur.nl
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

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Work

  • Gijsbert Oonk (7 August 2023) - US Womens World Cup
  • Gijsbert Oonk (14 December 2022) - De cruciale rol van de diaspora op het WK,
  • Gijsbert Oonk (8 December 2022) - How Migration has shaped the World Cup
  • Gijsbert Oonk (8 December 2022) - How Migration shaped the World Cup
  • Gijsbert Oonk (29 November 2022) - De Coup van Qatar
  • Gijsbert Oonk (29 November 2022) - Het verlies van Qatar; interview in NRC 29-11-2022
  • Gijsbert Oonk (24 October 2022) - De Bijzondere afkomst van premier Sunak
  • Gijsbert Oonk (8 February 2022) - Radio 1 BE (VRT): Olympische Spelen en Nationale Identiteit
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2 February 2022) - De nationale mal van de Spelen begint te wringen
  • Gijsbert Oonk (8 January 2022) - Heimwee naar de Elfstedentocht

  • Thomas Peeters, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Gijsbert Oonk & Sandra Meeuwsen (2023) - Creation new Minor (BA-3) Sports @ Society, ESHCC with faculties of Economy (main coordinator) and Philosophy
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Football Makes HIstory
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Wie mag ons land representeren.
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Nationality Swapping in the Olympic Field. Cases and Contexts from the Middle East 1998- 2016
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Moderator of an international panel: Pass it to the classroom.
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Teaching the teachers on anti-semitism and nationalism
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - The FIFA World Cup: Football, Citizenship, and National Identity 1930-2022
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2020) - Sport and Nation
  • G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2020) - Euroclio (External organisation)
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2017) - Who may represent the Nation? Sport, migration and citizenship, and opportunities for football to address global (migration) history

  • Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Robert Schuman Fellowship
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - “Football Makes History: Schools and Football Club Museums Unlocking Local Heritage education”. Projectnummer: 2021-2-NL01-KA220-SCH-000049248 PI 400.000=
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2018) - Jean Monnet (ad Personam) Chair on Migration, Citizenship and Identity
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2017) - Sport in the city: Anti-semitism and Football in Rotterdam
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2015) - Sport and National Identity: Changing Citizenship and the Global Battle for Talent
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2014) - Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2014) - Honorary research affiliate of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg.
  • Gijsbert Oonk (2011) - Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Fellow in Business History

Feeling Orange

Level
BA and MA
Year Level
BA and MA
Year
2023
Course Code
FC0030

Master Thesis

Year Level
MA, MA
Year
2023
Course Code
CH4050

Migration, Citizenship and Identity

Year Level
BA-2, BA-2
Year
2023
Course Code
CH2205

Minor Sports and Society

Year
2023
Course Code
FEB53120

Minor Sports and Society

Year
2023
Course Code
FEB53120M

Global Governance and its Discontents

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2023
Course Code
CH4233

Global History

Year Level
BA-1, BA-1
Year
2023
Course Code
CH1101

News regarding prof.dr. (Gijsbert) G Oonk

Gijsbert Oonk in Elsevier Magazine: football is also history

Prof.dr. Gijsbert Oonk was interviewed by Elsevier Magazine about the Erasmus+ project "Football Makes History".
Portrait picture of Gijsbert Oonk

Where has Burundi's handball team gone? Gijsbert Oonk on Radio 1 about disappeared sports teams

Gijsbert Oonk was a guest on Radio 1 to tell the story behind the disappearance of the Burundi handball team.
Burundi handball team

Gijsbert Oonk on CNN on the influence of U.S. women's soccer

Gijsbert Oonk is interviewed by CNN on on the dominance of U.S. women's soccer and American players in other national teams.
Women football

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