Biography
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen is associate professor at the History Department of Erasmus University Rotterdam and is the EuroClio Endowed Chair Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University. He is co-lead of the research cluster Heritage & Identity and is executive director of the Center for Historical Culture.
He received his PhD cum laude from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2013. Adriaansen's research focuses on historical culture and historical consciousness, in the past and in the present. In 2015 he published the monograph The Rhythm of Eternity: The German Youth Movement and the Experience of the Past, 1900-1933 (Berghahn, 2015). His current research focuses on the impact of digitization on historical consciousness, historical culture, and history education.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Associate professor | Department of History
- adriaansen@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Robbert Jan Adriaansen & Ruben Zeeman (2026) - Teaching on Thin Ice: Social Media, Epistemic Conflict, and the Targeting of History Educators - doi: 10.5117/9789048577118-14 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2026) - Moments that matter: Critical incidents and history teachers’ historical consciousness - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Hilde Sennema, SJJM Thissen & Ben Wubs (2026) - De stad als ruimtelijk narratief: vijf parallelle ‘Rotterdammen’ op reisapp FindPenguins
- Maria Grever, Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Arnaldo Martin Szlachta Junior & Wilian Junior Bonete (2025) - Cultura Histórica: um conceito revisitado - Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica, 43 - doi: 10.51359/2525-5649.2025.268080
- Robbert Jan Adriaansen & Rik Smit (2025) - Collective memory and social media - Current Opinion in Psychology, 65 - doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102077 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Winds of Change podcast, Episode 4: Robbert-Jan Adriaansen - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2025) - Instant Nostalgia?: Instagram Filter Use at European Heritage Tourism Sites - doi: 10.1515/9783111360874-020
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Digitalisering en historische cultuur: Internet memes als multimodale historische analogieën - [link]
- Lise Zurné & Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Immersed in the past.: What historical re-enactment reveals about rules and boundaries - The Sociological Review Magazine - doi: 10.51428/tsr.zgaf5356
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2024) - Multimodal meaning-making: How social media shapes students’ historical understanding - Teaching History, 58 (2), 40-43 - [link]
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (22 September 2026) - Duitse dokter Kern redde veel Arnemuidse levens: ‘Door hem nodigen we Duitsers uit voor de herdenking’
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 September 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (12 September 2024) - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen appointed EuroClio Chair of Historical Culture in Transition at Ghent University – an interview
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (1 July 2023) - De la Compagnie des Indes aux supertankers: le fabuleux destin historique de Rotterdam
- RJ (Robbert-Jan) Adriaansen (30 September 2021) - A party holiday and a philosophical book complement each other
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (22 June 2018) - De Ochtendspits
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & JR Stackhouse (1 January 2017) - The Rhythm of Eternity
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2026) - Historical Culture & History Didactics (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen & Tina van der Vlies (2026) - Research seminar Heritage & Identity: Beyond Historonormativity: Parallel Historicities in the Age of Populism (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies, Iwona Gusc, Denise Schreuder, Susan Hogervorst & Marloes Hülsken (2026) - Oral History Research Group: First meeting (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies, Charlotte Bruns & Ofra Klein (2026) - Lunch meeting H&I + VISUAL: The figure of the colonial monster (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2026) - Beyond Emplotment: Digital Platforms and the Transformation of Historical Time (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2026) - Memes as Multimodal Analogies. Historical Meaning-making on the Subreddit r/HistoryMemes (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2026) - Tiende Nationale Geschiedenisonderwijscongres (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Maria Grever, Herman Paul & Pieter Huistra (2026) - Werkbijeenkomst doceren theorie van de geschiedenis & filosofie van de geesteswetenschappen (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen (2026) - Building belonging, agency and civic mindedness through history education in Europe (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies & Lenia Marques (2026) - Research meeting Heritage & Identity: From Textile Mills to Territorial Capital (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic
Universiteit Gent
- Start date approval
- February 2025
- End date approval
- August 2027
- Place
- GENT
- Description
- Bijzonder hoogleraar
Hist. Cult. in a Glob. World
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- CH4001
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- CH4052
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- CH4053
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- CH4055
