Academic Career

Since 2025 Eveline G. Bouwers is full professor of European Regional History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She studied history, art history and political science at University College Utrecht (BA, 2003), at KU Leuven (MA, 2004) and at the University of Amsterdam (MA, 2005). In 2009, she obtained her doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence, comparing remembrance cultures in revolutionary Europe. She subsequently was a postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University and a senior research fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History, where she was Principal Investigator of an Emmy Noether Research Group, which was funded by the German Research Council and ran from 2013 to 2018. In 2025, she received her ‘Habilitation’ (second book) at Bielefeld University with a comparative study on Catholic protest and violence in Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. She has also been a visiting or affiliated researcher at the University of York (2007), Harvard University (2011) and KU Leuven (2013-19).

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Research Interests

• European history, 18^th through 21^st centuries

• Comparative and transnational history

• Microhistory and history of everyday life

• Region and nation

• Violence and protest

• Memory, monuments, and visual history

• Religion, criticism of religion, and atheism

Selected Publications

• (ed.), Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World (London: Routledge, 2023).

• with David Nash (ed.), Demystifying the Sacred. Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022). Open Access

• Not so Parallel Lives: the ‘Exempla Virtutis’ in the German and Italian Tradition, in: Journal of Modern Italian Studies 25:3 (2020) 372-386.

• Challenging the Republic from the Provinces: An Analysis of Crowd Action after the French Separation Law (1905), in: Eveline G. Bouwers & Niall Whelehan (eds.), Homelands and Hostlands: The Spatial Dynamics of Political Mobilisation in the Early-Twentieth Century World (= Immigrants & Minorities 35:3 (2017)) 157-176.

• Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe. Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

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