dr. (Maarten) MF van Dijck

Biography

Maarten Van Dijck (1980) is associate professor in history and theory of the social sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His teaching concerns the theories and methodologies used in historical and social research. Maarten is specialised in urban history from long-term perspective. His PhD research dealt with the complex relation between criminalization, urbanization and behavior changes in the urban societies of the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period. This thesis claims that urban growth in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries caused the decline of interpersonal violence in Europe. Homcide rates tend to be lower in larger cities, especially after 1500. He also studied the evolution of democracy, civil societies and public spheres in the Low Countries during the late medieval and the early modern period. A third research line deals with the unequal distribution of social resources in the Low Countries during the early modern period. 

Maarten's research makes use of concepts from the social sciences to understand long-term historical developments such as the rise of democratic societies. Methodologically, he makes use of digital humanities techniques in his research such as GIS and Social Network Analysis.

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

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

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Work

  • Maarten Dijck & Jeroen Euwe (2019) - The Wine Business in Rotterdam, 1600-1900
  • Maarten Dijck (2018) - Dutch port cities in the early modern period: local responses to global challenges
  • Maarten Dijck (2018) - Women in business in New Amsterdam and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century
  • Maarten Dijck (2017) - Economic networks in the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic. Social capital in early modern New Amsterdam and Rotterdam
  • Maarten Dijck (2016) - Gendered networks in early modern Dutch harbor towns. A comparison of Cape Town, New Amsterdam and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century
  • Maarten Dijck (2015) - Social Capital and Economic Development in Cape Town and New Amsterdam (c. 1640-1680)
  • Maarten Dijck (2014) - Settler strategies. Social networks in New Amsterdam and Cape Town in the second half of the seventeenth century
  • Maarten Dijck (2014) - Sociale verhoudingen in de Spaanse Nederlanden en de Republiek. Sociale ongelijkheid, sociaal kapitaal en sociale cohesie in zeventiende-eeuws Mechelen en Leiden
  • Maarten Dijck (2014) - Stadsgeschiedenis (Journal)
  • Maarten Dijck (2013) - Stadsgeschiedenis (Journal)

Global Order in the Postcolonial World

Year Level
MA, MA
Year
2023
Course Code
CH4020

World Politics after Empire

Year Level
BA-2, BA-2
Year
2023
Course Code
CH2221

Rise of the Global City

Year Level
MA, MA
Year
2023
Course Code
CH4215

Sustainable Development in Hist. Persp.

Year Level
MA, MA
Year
2023
Course Code
CH4022

Heuristic Skills and Sources

Year Level
BA-1, BA-1
Year
2023
Course Code
CH1104

Honours Class

Year Level
BA-2, BA-2
Year
2023
Course Code
CH2100

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