Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH). She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of eight research projects funded in four European countries. Venken joined the University of Luxembourg in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg / Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1236 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0358-0827 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/de/people/machteld-venken |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
Methods
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Either/Mixed
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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Scope
Roles
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Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (University of Luxembourg)
Research Institute, esch-sur-alzette, Luxembourg
Full Professor -
University of Luxembourg
University, Belval, Luxembourg
Full Professor in Contemporary Transnational History / Head of the research area 'Contemporary History of Luxembourg' -
European University Institute
University, Fiesole, Italy
Research Associate -
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Other, Brussels, Belgium
Innoviris Project Leader -
Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
Other, Jena, Germany
Long-Term Visiting Fellow -
University of Vienna
University, Vienna, Austria
Top Citizen Science Grant Project Leader -
University of Vienna
University, Vienna, Austria
External Lecturer -
University of Vienna
University, Vienna, Austria
Elise Richter Fellowship -
University of Vienna
University, Vienna, Austria
Lisa Meitner Fellowship -
Kolegium Europejskie - Kampus Natolin w Warszawie
Other, Warsaw, Poland
Bronislaw Geremek Fellowship -
German Historical Institute
Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Postdoctoral Researcher -
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Other, Leuven, Belgium
Postdoctoral Researcher -
University of Warsaw
University, Warsaw, Poland
Visiting Scholar -
Embassy of the Netherlands in Warsaw
Other, Warsaw, Poland
Attaché for Social Affairs -
KU Leuven
Other, Leuven, Belgium
Scientific Co-operator in History -
Gas Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Other, Geneva, Switzerland
Intern
Research
History Education in Luxembourg’s Secondary Schools in the 1950s–1970s: Ideas and Experiments
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | History Education at the Edge of the Nation | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Native Borderland Children in the Belgian-German and Polish-German Borderlands. Comparing Verification and Nationalisation Narratives After the Second World War
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2023 |
| Book Title | No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Transforming secondary education in the Belgian–German borderlands (1918–1939)
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | History of Education |
Dialoguing Borders in the Post-Soviet Space through Citizen Science – Ukrainian Borderland Perspectives
| Authors | Johanna Jaschik, Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Post-Soviet Borders |
Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook
| Authors | Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto, Chiara Brambilla |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Borderlands Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Citizenship participation and Global Migration. Implications for theory research, and teaching
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Borderlands Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Nationalization campaigns and teachers’ practices in Belgian–German and Polish–German border regions (1945–1956)
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Nationalities Papers | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Families, Foreignness, Migration
| Authors | Leen Beyers, Machteld Venken, Idesbald Goddeeris |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | HISTORY OF THE FAMILY | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Editorial: Migration studies and the digital: datafication, implications and methodological approaches
| Authors | Lorella Viola, Machteld Venken, Jaap Verheul |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Human Dynamics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Arrival declaration forms. A new gateway for mapping migration to Luxembourg
| Authors | Machteld Venken, Arnaud Sauer |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Frontiers in Human Dynamics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Children, Young People and Borders
| Authors | Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto, Chiara Brambilla |
| Year | 2022 |
Gemengd huwen, nationaliteit en de verschillen voor mannen en vrouwen. Poolse oudgedienden en Ostarbeiterinnen in België tijdens de Koude Oorlog.
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Bodily memory: Introducing immigrant organizations and the family
| Authors | Machteld Venken |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | HISTORY OF THE FAMILY | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |