About AboutHistorical researcher focusing on the point of contact between labor, social, and environmental history, with special attention to North America. His primary interests are in histories of labor and environmental justice, especially cases where organized labor or working-class communities resisted capital encroachment, pollution, and other impositions of environmental injustice. Experienced with digital humanities (can work with C, C#, and Python) and speaks fluent English and Dutch.
ResearchMaster’s Thesis: As part of my Master’s Degree program I completed a thirty-thousand word thesis on the ‘autoworker rebellion’ in Detroit in the late 1960s and the 1970s. The thesis explored this wave of wildcat strikes and worker resistance against degrading factory conditions through a combination of oral and print sources, unearthing a shared autoworker environmentalism that spurred a durable working-class environmental movement.
(Brief) CVResearch MA Modern and Contemporary History (Utrecht
University)
September 2023 - July 2025
Student Research Assistant (HIP-NL, Utrecht University)
June 2024 - April 2025
Internship Blue History
Network (Roosevelt Institute for American Studies)
September 2024 - January 2025
BA History (Utrecht University)
September 2020 - July 2023