Bart Verheijen
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. L.J. Verheijen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1743
- l.j.verheijen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6687-3101
Bart Verheijen is an Assistant Professor in Colonial and Global history, with a main research interest in the political culture and the development of national identities in the early nineteenth century in Europe and The Dutch Indies. He completed his PhD on Napoleonic history in 2017 and since then he has worked in Myanmar, Bali and Makassar.
More information about Bart Verheijen
PhD candidates
Fields of interest
- Political culture of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era
- Enlightenment debates
- Javanese learned societies and the transfer of abolitionist ideas in the Dutch East Indies
- Colonial citizenship
Research
Bart Verheijen is an Assistant Professor in Colonial and Global history, with a main research interest in the political culture and the development of national identities in the early nineteenth century in Europe and The Dutch East Indies. He completed his PhD on Napoleonic history in 2017 and since then he has worked in Myanmar, Bali and Makassar.
Grants and awards
2019 - Fellowship Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
2019 - Research Grant from Udayana University, Bali
2013 - Valorisation Grant Graduate School for Humanities, Radboud University
2010 - Prix de Paris
Curriculum Vitae
Bart Verheijen studied History and political philosophy in the Netherlands (Radboud University), Belgium (KU Leuven) and France (l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris). In 2017 he completed a PhD in political and cultural history on the Napoleonic era. He worked as a University Teacher in Yangon, Myanmar and Indonesia, and as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam.
Key publications
- Het Javaasch Menschlievend Genootschap en de afschaffing van de slavernij in Nederlands-Indië, 1816-1825. Nieuw Letterkundig Magazijn 38, 25-30.
- Asriyani, H., & B. Verheijen (2020). Protecting the Mbau Komodo in Riung, Flores: Local Adat, National Conservation and Ecotourism Developments. Forest & Society, 20-34.
-Verheijen, B., & I.N.D. Putra (2019). Balinese Cultural Identity and Global Tourism: The Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park. Asian Ethnicity, 1-19.
- Nederland onder Napoleon. Partijstrijd en natievorming (1801-1813) (Nijmegen: Vantilt 2017).
- C. Lefort, Wat is politiek (Amsterdam: Boom 2016). Selection, introduction and translation of French essays from Claude Lefort, by B. Verheijen, & P.C.L. van de Wiel.
-‘Singing the Nation. Protest and national thought in the Netherlands during the Napoleonic annexation (1810-1813)’, in: Lotte Jensen (Ed.), The Roots of Nationalism. National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2016) pp. 309-327.
- Geschiedenis onder de guillotine. Twee eeuwen geschiedschrijving van de Franse Revolutie (Nijmegen: Vantilt 2013).
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Algemene Geschiedenis
- Verheijen L.J. & Jansen R.H.T. (2024), The ambiguous legal position of ‘native Christians’ in the Dutch East Indies in the nineteenth century, Trajecta: Religie, cultuur en samenleving in de Nederlanden / Religion, Culture and Society in the Low Countries 32(1): 63 - 92.
- Lefort C. (2024), Democratie en totalitarisme [L’invention démocratique. Les limites de la domination totalitaire] (translation: Wiel P.C.L. van de & Verheijen L.J.). Amsterdam: Boom.
- Verheijen L.J. (2024), Een staat zonder burgers? De betekenis van politiek burgerschap voor Indo-Europeanen en ‘inlandse christenen’ in Nederlands-Indië in de negentiende eeuw. In: Fatah-Black K. & Lauret L. (Eds.), Koloniaal burgerschap: Geschiedenis en Erfenis. Amsterdam: Boom. 123-140.
- Verheijen L.J. (2024), The Java Benevolent Society and the abolition of slavery (1816-1830). Voices of Resistance in and against Dutch empire 11 September 2024 - 13 September 2024. Utrecht.
- Verheijen L.J., Lammers L. & D'Hanis B. 11 August 2024, Napoleon Bonaparte. Iconen van de geschiedenis 7 & 8 [podcast].
- Rosendaal J.G.M.M. & Verheijen L.J. (2023), Satirische Oranjeliedjes voor radicaal-republikeinen. In: Turpijn J. & Van Zanten J. (Eds.), Notenkraken. Amsterdam: Promotheus. 75-85.
- Verheijen L.J. 1 June 2022, Grote vragen: Frankrijk, de guillotine, en de terreur. Grote vragen 12 [podcast].
- Hansma L. & Verheijen L.J. (2022), Orangisme en Republikanisme: Partijtwisten na de Revolutie, 1800-1806, De Moderne Tijd 6(1): 27-50.
- Verheijen L.J. (2022), Daniel François van Alphen en de herovering van Java. : Symposium ‘Een Koloniale staat in wording?’ Nederlands-Indië in de vroege 19e eeuw .
- Verheijen L.J. (2022), Staatsburgerschap in Nederland en Nederlands-Indië. Historicidagen 25 August 2022 - 27 August 2022. Rotterdam, 25/08/2022-27/08/2022: Historicidagen.
- Verheijen L.J. (2021), Staatsburgerschap en Nederlanderschap in Nederlands-Indië in de negentiende eeuw, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 134(3): 448-472.
- Dharmiasih W., Fisher M., Dwiyanti N.L.E., Yudha Bhismaya I.G. & Verheijen L.J. (2021), Apertures of knowledge co-production. Facilitating multi-generational photovoices at Bali’s UNESCO Cultural Landscape. In: Acabado S. & Kuan D.W. (Eds.), Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific.Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment. London: Routledge. 151-167.
- Darma Putra I Nyoman, Verheijen L.J. Ardika I Wayan & Yanthy Putu Sucita (2021), Affinity tourism and exotic tourism in Bali. The Chinese and Indian tourist gaze in the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Park, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 19(4): 427-443.
- Batiran K., Sirimorok N., Verheijen L.J., Fisher M.R. & Sahide M.A.K. (2021), Creating commons: reflections on creating natural resource management regimes in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Forest and Society 5(2): 619-630.
- Verheijen L.J. (2021), Het Javaasch Menschlievend Genootschap en de afschaffing van de slavernij in Nederlands-Indië, 1816-1825, Nieuw Letterkundig Magazijn 38: 25-30.
- Asriyani H. & Verheijen L.J. (2020), Protecting the Mbau Komodo in Riung, Flores: Local Adat, National Conservation and Ecotourism Developments, Forest and Society 4(1): 20-34.
- Verheijen L.J. & Nyoman Darma Putra I. (2020), Balinese cultural identity and global tourism: the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park, Asian Ethnicity 21: 425-442.
- Fisher M.R., Verheijen L.J. & Sahide M.A.K. (2020), Community and conservation in Wallacea: making the case for the region, a methodological framework, and research trends, Forest and Society 4(1): 1-19.
- Verheijen L.J. (2020), Review of: Judge J. (2018), The United States of Belgium: the story of the first Belgian revolution. Leuven: Leuven University Press. BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review 135.
- Verheijen L.J. (2020), Natievorming in de napoleontische tijd. In: Jensen L. (Ed.) Napoleons nalatenschap. Sporen in de Nederlandse samenleving.: De Bezige Bij. 152-163.
- Verheijen L.J. (2018), Cornelis van der Aa en de orangistische geschiedschrijving in de Bataafs-Franse tijd. In: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis. no. 25 Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging, Nijmegen/Leiden 2018: Uitgeverij Vantilt. 169-183.
- Verheijen L.J. (2017), Nederland onder Napoleon. Partijstrijd en natievorming (1801-1813). Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt.
- Verheijen L.J. (2016), Singing the nation : protest songs and national thought in the Netherlands during the Napoleonic annexation (1810-1813). In: Jensen L. (Ed.), The Roots of Nationalism National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 no. 1. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 309-327.
- Verheijen L.J. (2013), Geschiedenis onder de guillotine. Twee eeuwen geschiedschrijving van de Franse Revolutie. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt.
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