Historian of the Early Modern Era
I am a curious historian with a special interest in social dynamics, migration, identity, and concepts of power in premodern Europe. After working in the publishing industry as a software developer and manager for many years, I decided in 2020 to return to university and reunite with my past and present love: history. I hold a Research Master’s degree in Renaissance Studies from Utrecht University.
My academic journey has evolved around historical research focussed on early modern Italy. In 2023, I completed my BA in History at the University of Amsterdam, including a minor in Italian and participation in the honours program. I continued my academic training in the Renaissance track of the AMRS research Master at Utrecht University. During this program, I contributed as an intern to the project Correspondence of Christofforo Suriano (1616-1623) at the Huygens Institute, where I worked on the missives of Ambassador Extraordinaire Trevisano.
I have experience in archival research, palaeography, digital humanities tools such as Transkribus and Nodegoat, and am proficient in reading Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian documents and literature.
With over 30 years experience, I have a solid background as an entrepreneur and programmer. During my study and the internships that were part of it I have further honed my skills, specialising in what is generally called Digital History. After completing university I have developed some plug-ins for the Zotero annotation tool. These plug-ins use AI to generate summaries of documents, but there is also one that can transcibe area's of scanned archival documents.
If you are interested in these plug-ins, or in custom development for your historical research project, feel free to contact me.