Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

(Julian) J.C.F. Schaap MSc

(Julian) J.C.F. Schaap MSc

PhD Candidate Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Department of Arts & Culture Studies
Location
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Room
M 7-05
Telephone
+31 10 4082458
Email
j.schaap@eshcc.eur.nl

Latest academic publication

H. Savigny & J.C.F. Schaap (2018). Putting the ‘studies’ back in to metal music studies. Metal Music Studies, 4 (3).

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Julian Schaap (Rotterdam, 1988) is a PhD-lecturer in cultural sociology at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies.

Together with Pauwke Berkers and Koen van Eijck (EUR), Julian received a five-year grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) as a part of Doctorates in Humanities (‘Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen’) to pursue his PhD on the topic of whiteness, gender and rock music. The international project is entitled ‘Elvis has finally left the building? Boundary work, whiteness and the reception of rock music in comparative perspective.’ For this research project, Julian received additional grants from Fulbright (for a visiting scholarship at Emory University, Atlanta, GA) and the Erasmus Trustfonds (for joint research with Jeroen van der Waal and Willem de Koster (ESSB) and Harvard's Project Implicit). Moreover, multiple articles based on this project have been shortlisted by the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities (EGSH) awards for PhD excellence. He started his PhD and work as a lecturer in October 2013 and is due to finish in late 2018. 

Due to his research and valorization activities, the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) selected him to become one of the Netherlands’ Faces of Science.

Julian’s research focuses on social and cultural stratification on the basis of whiteness, race-ethnicity and gender in various cultural fields. He has developed extensive expertise in cognitive sociology, including methodologies based on latency measures, such as the Implicit Association Test. Together with Pauwke Berkers he has published various papers and a book (out in June 2018) on gender inequality in metal music production. He has also published on religion and spirituality in online video games together with Stef Aupers (KU Leuven).

Julian obtained his bachelor degree in History from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2011, graduating on the topic of the UN Peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia, 1991-1995. Shortly after, he followed a summer school on fear culture at Tallinn University in Estonia, triggering his interest in sociology. He enrolled in the Research Master in Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts at the same university. As a part of this programme, he studied one semester at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. In 2013 he graduated (cum laude) on the topic of whiteness and rock music with his master thesis ‘Just like Hendrix: Whiteness and the critical and consumer reception of rock music in the United States, 2003-2013.’

 

        • J.C.F. Schaap (2017). Hoe wordt smaak bepaald? In A. Rinnooy Kan & B. de Graaf (Eds.), Hoe zwaar is licht? Meer dan 100 dringende vragen aan de wetenschap (pp. 261-263). Amsterdam: Balans
        • J.C.F. Schaap (2016). Waar is de Rotterdamse lelijkheid gebleven? In E Liukku & S Mandias (Eds.), Help, we zijn populair! Rotterdam: Stad in verandering. Rotterdam: nai010uitgevers

      • J.C.F. Schaap (2014). Gebonden aan witheid: witte identiteiten en de onbedoelde (re)productie van racisme [Bespreking van het boek White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race]. Sociologie, 1(10), 78-83.

      • P.P.L. Berkers, T. Trinh Thanh & J.C.F. Schaap (2017). Hearing whiteness: Race, ethnicity and evaluation of rock music. 19th Biennial IASPM Conference: Kassel (2017, juni 26 - 2017, juni 30).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2017). Elvis has finally left the building? Gender, race-ethnicity and social marking in rock music classification. Conference Cultural Sociology Lowlands: Amsterdam (2017, juni 19 - 2017, juni 20).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2017). Gender inequality in metal music production. Conference Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures: Helsinki (2017, juni 28 - 2017, juni 30).
      • P.P.L. Berkers & J.C.F. Schaap (2017). From t(h)rash to profit : A history of the legitimation of metal music. 19th Biennial IASPM Conference: Kassel (2017, juni 26 - 2017, juni 30).
      • T. Trinh Thanh, P.P.L. Berkers & J.C.F. Schaap (2016). Hearing whiteness: race, ethnicity and the evaluation of rock music. Keep it simple, make it fast! DIY cultures, spaces & places: Porto, Portugal (2016, juli 15 - 2017, juli 22).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2016). (De)constructing a white male space: Gender, race-Ethnicity, and rock music in comparative perspective. American Sociological Association annual meeting: Seattle, United States (2016, augustus 19 - 2016, augustus 23).
      • P.P.L. Berkers, J.C.F. Schaap & F. Weij (2016). Guitar wielding women: gender inequality in metal music production in comparative perspective. Keep it simple, make it fast! DIY cultures, spaces & places: Porto, Portugal (2016, juli 17 - 2016, juli 21).
      • J.C.F. Schaap, J. van der Waal & W. de Koster (2016). The Merits of the Implicit Association Test for Sociological Research. American Sociological Association annual meeting: Seattle, United States (2016, augustus 19 - 2016, augustus 23).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2015). Whiteness and the online critical and consumer reception of rock and heavy metal music. International Academic Research Conference: Modern Heavy Metal - Markets, Practices and Cultures: Helsinki, Finland (2015, juni 8 - 2015, juni 11).
      • J.C.F. Schaap (2015). (De)constructing a white space: Boundary work, whiteness and the reception of rock music in Rotterdam. The porous walls of fortress Europe: Contemporary media discourses of cultural belonging: Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2015, november 19 - 2015, november 20).
      • P.P.L. Berkers & J.C.F. Schaap (2015). (De)constructing a white space: Boundary work, whiteness and the reception of rock music in Rotterdam. Conference Keep it simple, make it fast! Crossing borders of underground music scenes: Porto, Portugal (2015, juli 13 - 2015, juli 17).
      • J.C.F. Schaap (2015). (De)constructing a white space: Boundary work, whiteness and the reception of rock music in Rotterdam. 12th European Sociological Association Conference: Differences, Inequalities and the Sociological Imagination: Prague, Czech Republic (2015, augustus 25 - 2015, augustus 28).
      • J. Peters, S. Aupers & J.C.F. Schaap (2015). The bearable lightness of being, of “shit happens”. Hoe Nederlandse a-religieuzen omgaan met leven, lijden en dood. NSV Dag van de Sociologie: Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2015, mei 27).
      • J. Peters, S. Aupers & J.C.F. Schaap (2015). The bearable lightness of being or “shit happens”: How Dutch religious nones deal with life, death and suffering. 12th European Sociological Association Conference: Differences, Inequalities and the Sociological Imagination: Prague, Czech Republic (2015, augustus 25 - 2015, augustus 28).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2014). Sounds like Bad Brains: Whiteness and the critical reception of rock music in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands. IASPM Benelux conference A long way to the top: The production and reception of music in a globalized world: Rotterdam (2014, november 6 - 2014, november 7).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2014). Net zoals Jimi Hendrix: Whiteness, etno - raciale grenzen, en de receptie van rock muziek in de Verenigde Staten, 2003 - 2013. Dag van de Sociologie: Antwerpen (2014, mei 28).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2014). So You Think You Can Grunt: Gender and Musical Careers in Online and Offline Metal Scenes. Symposium Metal and Marginalisation: Gender, Race, Class and Other Implications for Hard Rock and Metal: York (2014, april 11).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & S.D. Aupers (2013). Spirituele ontmoetingen in Azaroth: Religieuze reflectie in World of Warcraft. NSV Dag van de Sociologie: Nijmegen, Nederland (2013, mei 30 - 2013, mei 30).
      • P.P.L. Berkers & J.C.F. Schaap (2013). So you think you can grunt? Gender and musical careers in online and offline metal scenes. ESA Conference, Sociology of Culture Section: Torino (Italy) (2013, augustus 28 - 2013, augustus 31).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & S.D. Aupers (2013). Spiritual encounters in Azaroth: Religious reflexivity in World of Warcraft. ESA Conference, Sociology of Religion Section: Torino, Italy (2013, augustus 28 - 2013, augustus 31).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2013). Grunting Alone: Online Gender Inequality in Extreme Metal Music. Etmaal van de Communicatiewetenschap: Rotterdam (2013, februari 7 - 2013, februari 8).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2013). Grunting Alone: Online Gender Inequality in Extreme Metal Music. POPID Conference: Popular Music Heritage, Cultural Memory and Cultural Identity: Rotterdam (2013, januari 30 - 2013, februari 1).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2013). Just like Hendrix: Whiteness and the reception of rock music in the United States, 2000-2013. Conference 'Traveling Whiteness: Interchanges in the Study of Whiteness': Turku (Finland) (2013, oktober 18 - 2013, oktober 19).
      • P.P.L. Berkers & J.C.F. Schaap (2013). So you think you can grunt? Gender and musical careers in online and offline metal scenes. Conference 'Music Gender Difference: Intersectional and Postcolonial Perspectives on Musical Fields': Vienna (Austria) (2013, oktober 10 - 2013, oktober 12).
      • J.C.F. Schaap & P.P.L. Berkers (2012). Tough Girls, Tough Luck: Gender Inequality in the Online and offline Metal Scene. European Sociological Association Conference: Culture, Communication and Creativity: Berlijn (2012, september 7 - 2012, september 7).

      • J.C.F. Schaap (2013, mei 24). Op vakantie naar de loopgraven: 100 jaar slagveldtoerisme van 1914 tot nu. Maarn (Nederland), Studiedag Stichting Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog (SSEW).

  • PhD Candidate

    University
    Erasmus University Rotterdam
    School
    Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
    Department
    Department of Arts & Culture Studies
    Country
    Nederland
    Telephone
    +31 10 4082458

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    Start Date
    Mar/2017

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