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...

Roles

  • 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
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1 Book Chapter

Transforming secondary education in the Belgian–German borderlands (1918–1939)

Authors Machteld Venken
Year 2022
Journal Name History of Education
3 Journal Article

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
4 Book Chapter

Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook

Authors Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto, Chiara Brambilla
Year 2021
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
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5 Journal Article

Citizenship participation and Global Migration. Implications for theory research, and teaching

Authors Machteld Venken
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Borderlands Studies
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6 Journal Article

Nationalization campaigns and teachers’ practices in Belgian–German and Polish–German border regions (1945–1956)

Authors Machteld Venken
Year 2014
Journal Name Nationalities Papers
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7 Journal Article

Families, Foreignness, Migration

Authors Leen Beyers, Machteld Venken, Idesbald Goddeeris
Year 2009
Journal Name HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
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8 Journal Article

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
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9 Journal Article

Arrival declaration forms. A new gateway for mapping migration to Luxembourg

Authors Machteld Venken, Arnaud Sauer
Year 2022
Journal Name Frontiers in Human Dynamics
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10 Journal Article

Children, Young People and Borders

Authors Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto, Chiara Brambilla
Year 2022
11 Book

Debordering and Rebordering

Authors Machteld Venken, Steen Bo Frandsen
Year 2022
12 Book

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
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13 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Bodily memory: Introducing immigrant organizations and the family

Authors Machteld Venken
Year 2009
Journal Name HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
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1 Journal Article
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