dr. (Daniel) DR Curtis

Associate Professor Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Department of History

Location: Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Email: curtis@eshcc.eur.nl

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I have a new project funded by the NWO VIDI (800,000 euro), which goes by the title "Positively Shocking! The Redistributive Impact of Mass Mortality through Epidemic Diseases and Violent Conflict in Early Modern Northwest Europe". It looks to test recent arguments that catastrophic shocks such as violent conflict and epidemic diseases were the only times throughout history when societies became more equitable - in particular by trying to obtain much more systematic empirical evidence for the pre-industrial period. It is my contention that there were a number of societal and epidemiological conditions that allowed the direction of redistribution to deviate from this suggested pattern.

I am happy to hear from any prospective…

I am happy to hear from any prospective students (BA/MA/PhD) interested in the broad domain of environmental hazards, famines and diseases in the past, and their implications for social and economic development over the long term.

- D.R. Curtis & J. Roosen (2017). The Sex-Selective Impact of the Black Death and Recurring Plagues in the Southern Netherlands, 1349-1450. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 164 (2), 246-259. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23266 [go to publisher's site]
- D.R. Curtis (2014). Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements. (Rural Worlds: Economic, Social & Cultural Histories of Agricultures & Rural Societies). London: Routledge [go to publisher's site]
- - D.R. Curtis & J. Roosen (2017). The Sex-Selective Impact of the Black Death and Recurring Plagues in the Southern Netherlands, 1349-1450. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 164 (2), 246-259. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23266 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis (2014). Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements. (Rural Worlds: Economic, Social & Cultural Histories of Agricultures & Rural Societies). London: Routledge [go to publisher's site]
- - Q. Han & D.R. Curtis (2020). Social Responses to Epidemics Depicted by Cinema. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 26 (2), 389-394. doi: 10.3201/eid2602.181022 [go to publisher's site]
  - Q. Han & D.R. Curtis (2020). Suspicious minds: cinematic depiction of distrust during epidemic disease outbreaks. BMJ Medical Humanities. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-011871
  - J. Roosen & D.R. Curtis (2019). The Light Touch of the Black Death in the Southern Netherlands: An Urban Trick? The Economic History Review, 72 (1), 32-56. doi: 10.1111/ehr.12667 [go to publisher's site]
  - B. van Bavel, D.R. Curtis, M. Hannaford, M. Moatsos, J. Roosen & T. Soens (2019). Climate and society in long-term perspective: Opportunities and pitfalls in the use of historical datasets. WIREs Climate Change, 10 (6), 1-18. doi: 10.1002/wcc.611 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis & J. Roosen (2018). On the importance of history: response to Black as Death. Inference : International Review of Science, 4 (2). [go to publisher's site]
  - J. Roosen & D.R. Curtis (2018). Dangers of Noncritical Use of Historical Plague Databases. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 24 (1), 103-110. doi: 10.3201/eid2401.170477 [go to publisher's site]
  - B. van Bavel, D.R. Curtis & T. Soens (2018). Economic inequality and institutional adaptation in response to flood hazards: a historical analysis. Ecology and Society, 23 (4):30. doi: 10.5751/ES-10491-230430 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis & J. Roosen (2017). The Sex-Selective Impact of the Black Death and Recurring Plagues in the Southern Netherlands, 1349-1450. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 164 (2), 246-259. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23266 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis & J. Dijkman (2017). The escape from famine in the Northern Netherlands: a reconsideration using the 1690s harvest failures and a broader Northwest European perspective. The seventeenth century. doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2017.1410494 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis (2016). Did the Commons Make Medieval and Early Modern Rural Societies More Equitable? A Survey of Evidence from across Western Europe, 1300-1800. Journal of Agrarian Change, 16 (4), 646-664. doi: 10.1111/joac.12101 [go to publisher's site]
  - B. van Bavel & D.R. Curtis (2016). Better Understanding Disasters by Better Using History: Systematically Using the Historical Record as One Way to Advance Research into Disasters. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 34 (1), 143-169.
  - D.R. Curtis (2016). Was Plague An Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality between City and Countryside in the 17th-Century Low Countries. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 47 (2), 139-170. doi: 10.1162/JINH_a_00975
  - D.R. Curtis, B. van Bavel & T. Soens (2016). History and the Social Sciences: Shock Therapy with Medieval Economic History as the Patient. Social Science History, 40 (4), 751-774. doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.30 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis (2016). Danger and Displacement in the Dollard: The 1509 Flooding of the Dollard Sea (Groningen) and its Impact on Long-Term Inequality in the Distribution of Property. Environment and History, 22 (1), 103-135. doi: 10.3197/096734016X14497391602288 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis (2015). An Agro-Town Bias? Re-Examining the Micro-Demographic Model for Southern Italy in the Eighteenth Century. Journal of Social History, 48 (3), 685-713. doi: 10.1093/jsh/shu149
  - D.R. Curtis (2014). The Effects of Land Accumulation and Consolidation on Population Trends in the Pre-Industrial Period: Two Contrasting Cases in the Low Countries. Historical Research, 87 (236), 194-228. doi: 10.1111/1468-2281.12050
  - D.R. Curtis & M. Campopiano (2014). Medieval Land Reclamation and the Creation of New Societies. Comparing Holland and the Po Valley, 800-1500. Journal of Historical Geography, 44, 93-108. doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2013.10.004
  - D.R. Curtis (2013). The Emergence of Concentrated Villages in Medieval Western Europe: Explanatory Frameworks in the Historiography. Canadian Journal of History, 48 (2), 223-251. doi: 10.3138/cjh.48.2.223
  - D.R. Curtis (2013). Tine De Moor’s ‘Silent Revolution’. Reconsider her Theoretical Framework for Explaining the Emergence of Institutions for the Collective Management of Resources. International Journal of the Commons, 7 (1), 209-229. doi: 10.18352/ijc.354 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis (2013). Trends in Rural Social and Economic History of the Pre-Industrial Low Countries: Recent Themes and Ideas in Journals and Books of the Past Five Years (2007-2013). Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (online), 128 (3), 60-95. doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9204 [go to publisher's site]
  - D.R. Curtis (2013). Is there an Agro-Town Model for Southern Italy? Exploring the Diverse Roots and Development of the Agro-Town Structure through a Comparative Case Study in Apulia. Continuity & Change, 28 (3), 377-419. doi: 10.1017/S0268416013000362
  - D.R. Curtis (2012). Florence and its Hinterlands in the Late Middle Ages: Contrasting Fortunes in the Tuscan Countryside, 1300-1500. Journal of Medieval History, 38 (4), 472-499. doi: 10.1080/03044181.2012.719830
- - B. van Bavel, D.R. Curtis, J. Dijkman, M. Hannaford, M. De Keyzer, E. Van Onacker & T. Soens (2020). Disasters and History: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press doi: 10.1017/9781108569743
  - D.R. Curtis (2014). Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements. (Rural Worlds: Economic, Social & Cultural Histories of Agricultures & Rural Societies). London: Routledge [go to publisher's site]
- - D.R. Curtis (2020). Preserving the Ordinary: Social Resistance during the Second Pandemic Plagues in the Low Countries. In C Gerrard, P Forlin & PJ Brown (Eds.), Waiting for the End of the World? New Perspectives on Natural Disasters in Medieval Europe (Society for Medieval Archaeology, 43) (pp. 280-297). London: Routledge doi: 10.4324/9781003023449-18
  - D.R. Curtis, J. Dijkman, T. Lambrecht & E. Vanhaute (2017). The Low Countries. In G. Alfani & C. Ó Gráda (Eds.), Famines in European history (pp. 119-140). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1017/9781316841235.006
- - D.R. Curtis & B. van Besouw (2020, april 14). Not Learning from History. Learning from COVID-19. . Retrieved Jun 22, 2020, from https://repub.eur.nl/pub/126243/
- - D.R. Curtis & B. van Besouw (2020). Not Learning from History. Learning from COVID-19. (blog). Wiley: COVID-19 Resources for the Research Community. (available: 14 Apr 2020).
  - D.R. Curtis (2020). Epidemics in Movies. (podcast). CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). (available: 30 Mar 2020).
- - - D.R. Curtis (2019). The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720. [Bespreking van het boek The Frigid Golden Age: Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560–1720]. American Historical Review, 124(2), 602-605. doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhz236
  - - D.R. Curtis (2016). [Bespreking van het boek Crises in Economic and Social History: a Comparative Perspective]. Continuity and Change, 31(3), 421-423. doi: 10.1017/S0268416016000291
    - D.R. Curtis (2015). [Bespreking van het boek Commerce and the Countryside. The Rural Population's Involvement int the Commodity Market in Flanders, 1750-1910]. Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 45(4), 136-139.
    - D.R. Curtis (2015). [Bespreking van het boek Beyond Lords and Peasants: Rural Elites and Economic Differentiation in Pre-Modern Europe]. Scripta : Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 5(1), 327-330.
    - D.R. Curtis (2015). [Bespreking van het boek Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem revisited]. Historia Agraria, 65(1), 201-204.
    - D.R. Curtis (2014). [Bespreking van het boek Food supply, demand and trade: aspects of the economic relationship between town and countryside (middle ages–19th century)]. The Economic History Review, 67(2), 597-598. doi: 10.1111/1468-0289.12067_16
    - D.R. Curtis (2014). [Bespreking van het boek Landscapes or Seascapes? The History of the Coastal Environment in the North Sea Area Reconsidered]. The Medieval Low Countries, 1(1), 284-287. doi: 10.1484/J.MLC.5.103719
    - D.R. Curtis (2014). [Bespreking van het boek Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (Thirteenth–Twentieth Centuries)]. Landscape History, 35(1), 102-103. doi: 10.1080/01433768.2014.916917
    - D.R. Curtis (2013). [Bespreking van het boek Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen]. Bijdragen en Mededelingen betreffende de Geschiedenis der Nederlanden (online), 128(4), 98-100. doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9311
- - D.R. Curtis (Interview) (2020, mrt 17). Hollywood pandemics. [radio-uitzending]. In The Current. Toronto, Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/15766101-bill-blair-on-covid-19-and-travel-restrictions-ordinary-canadians-helping-those-hardest-hit-protecting-your-mental-health-hollywood-pandemics
History of Early Modern Societies
Title
History of Early Modern Societies
Year
2020
Year level
(BA-1) (BA-1)
Internship History
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Internship History
Year
2020
Year level
(BA-3) (BA-3)
Epidemic Disease, Famine and Development
Title
Epidemic Disease, Famine and Development
Year
2020
Year level
(BA-2) (BA-2)
Associate Professor
University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
School
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Department
Department of History
Country
The Netherlands

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dr. (Daniel) DR Curtis

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