Dr. Annette de Wit is a socio-economic historian and senior curator at the Maritime Museum Rotterdam. In her role as curator-in-residence at the Rotterdam Centre for Modern Maritime History she encourages the development of research activities in maritime history connecting university researchers and teachers, and museum curators.
She obtained her PhD in History from Leiden University, where her doctoral research focused on life, work, and religious practices in seafaring communities in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. (2008) Maritime history has formed a consistent thread throughout her academic and professional career, encompassing positions as researcher, curator, and head of public engagement and exhibitions in the Dutch Navy Museum.
Her current research interests include the rights of seafarers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, women as intermediaries in maritime labour markets in the nineteenth century, and methodological questions concerning objects—particularly ship models—as historical sources.
Contact
Email address: dewit@eshcc.eur.nl
Phone: +31 6 10983233