Evelien Walhout
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. E.C. Walhout
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6412
- e.c.walhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Evelien Walhout is Assistant Professor of Economic and Social History, with a special interest in historical demography and gender history. She obtained her PhD on morbidity and mortality patterns of infants and children in 19th and early 20th-century Netherlands in 2019 (Sociology, Tilburg University). She is President of the International Committee for Historical Demography (ICHD). She is member of the board of the Yearbook of Women's History, a peer-reviewed academic annual covering all aspects of gender connected with historical research throughout the world. She is also affiliated member of the Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History in Nijmegen.
Fields of interest
Specific research interests include gender history, child health, health in (port) cities, family and care, adoption practices, maternal mortality and (cause specific) mortality. Besides her affiliation with Leiden University, she participated in various national inquiries: violence in the Dutch youth care system after 1945, commissioned by the De Winter Commission (2019) and the national inquiry on relinquishment for adoption in the Netherlands between 1956 and 1984 (Ministry of Safety and Justice, The Hague).
Key publications
2021 (with Erik Beekink) 'Just Another Crisis? Individual’s Experiences and the Role of the Local Government and Church During the 1866 Cholera Epidemic in a Small Dutch Town', Historical Social Research 33 special issue epidemics.
2021 (with Jan Kok et al.), 'Hostages of time. Policy, practice and experiences of relinquishing a child for adoption in the Netherlands between 1956 and 1984', Annales de Démographie Historique.
2021 (with H. Sommerseth), 'The Gendering of Infectious Disease: Classifying Male and Female Causes of Death in the Netherlands and Norway, 1880-1910', Social History of Medicine.
2019: An Infants’ Graveyard? Region, religion and infant mortality in North Brabant, 1840-1940 (Dissertation Tilburg University).
2018 (with A. Janssens) ‘Gateways of disease? Do port cities have different cause-of-death patterns compared to other cities, the case of the Netherlands, 1875-1899’, ed. by Paul Puschmann and Tim Riswick, Building bridges. Scholars, history and historical demography (Nijmegen 2018).
2012 (with N. Bohnert, H.L. Jastad and J. Vechbanyongratana), ‘Offspring sex preference in Frontier America', Journal of interdisciplinary history 42 (Spring) 4, 519-541.
2010: ‘Is breast best? Evaluating breastfeeding patterns and causes of infant death in a Dutch province in the period 1875-1900', The history of the family 15 (1) 76-90.
2009 (with F. van Poppel and J. Schellekens) ‘Oversterfte van jonge meisjes in Nederland in de negentiende en eerste helft twintigste eeuw', Tijdschrift voor sociale en economische geschiedenis 6 (4) 37-69.
2009 (with H. van Dalen and F. van Poppel), ‘Diffusion of a social norm: tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922', Economic History Review 62 (1) 99-127.
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
- Walhout E.C. & Poppel F.W.A. van (2022), Eene statistiek naar de geloofsbelijdenis: Onderzoek naar de samenhang tussen godsdienst en mortaliteit in Nederland, 1775-1940. In: Krijger T. & Trigt P. van (Eds.) Pandemieën en protestanten. De omgang met infectieziekten in protestants Nederland sinds 1800. Utrecht: Kok Boekencentrum Uitgever.
- Muurling S. & Walhout E.C. (2021), Criminal life courses in context, Historical Life Course Studies 10(3): 30-33.
- Sommerseth H.L. & Walhout E.C. (2021), The gendering of infectious disease: classifying male and female causes of death in the Netherlands and Norway, 1880–1910, Social History of Medicine : 1-28 (hkab084).
- Walhout E.C., Dane J., Hilevych Y. & Kok J. (2021), Hostages of time. Policy, practice and experiences of relinquishing a child for adoption in the Netherlands between 1956 and 1984, Annales de démographie historique (2): 1-19.
- Walhout E.C. & Beekink E. (2021), Just another crisis?: Individual's experiences and the role of the local government and church during the 1866 cholera epidemic in a small Dutch town, Historical Social Research = Historische Sozialforschung / Supplement 33: 54-78.
- Walhout E.C. & Dane J. (2020), Picturing the East. A Visual Analysis of Dutch Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Educational Tools from the Collection of the Dutch National Museum of Education. In: Jouwe N., Buchheim E., Hoegen E., Reichgelt M., Schulte Nordholt L., Vandeweerdt N., Walhout E.C. & Wyffels H. (Eds.), Gendered Empire. Intersectional perspectives on Dutch post/colonial narratives no. 39. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers. 159-187.
- Jouwe N., Buchheim E., Hoegen E., Reichgelt M., Schulte Nordholt L., Vandeweerdt N., Walhout E.C. & Wyffels H. (Eds.) (2020), Yearbook for Women's History: Gendered Empire. Intersectional perspectives on Dutch post/colonial narratives. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 39. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Jouwe N., Buchheim E., Walhout E., Hoegen E, Reichgelt M., Schulte Nordholt L.R.C. & Vandeweerdt N. (Eds.) (2020), Gendered empire: Intersectional perspective on Dutch post/colonial narratives . Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 39. Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren.
- Walhout E.C. (2019), Fleskinderen. Voeding en zuigelingensterfte in Noord-Brabant tussen 1840 en 1940, Jeugdbeleid 13: 92–98.
- Walhout E.C. (25 January 2019), An infants’ graveyard? Region, religion and infant mortality in North Brabant, 1840-1940 (Dissertatie, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University): Tilburg University. Supervisor(s): Bijsterveld A.J.A., Engelen T.L.M. & Janssens A.A.P.O.
- Walhout E.C. (2019), Een kinderkerkhof? Regio, religie en babysterfte in laat negentiende-eeuws Noord-Brabant, InBrabant 10(2): 18-27.
- Sommerseth H.L. & Walhout E.C. (2019), Death in the city. A view from 19th-century church registers from Norway. In: Glavatskaya E., Thorvaldsen G., Fertig G. & Szoltysek M. (Eds.), Nominative Data in Demographic Research in the East and the West. Ekaterinburg: Ural University Press. 185-201.
- Derks M., Buchheim E., Bultman S., Groot M., Reichgelt M., Walhout E.C. & Zwarte I. de (Eds.) (2019), Building Bodies. Transnational Historical Approaches to Sport, Gender and Ethnicities. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 38. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Janssens A. & Walhout E.C. (2018), De haven, de stad en de dood. Doodsoorzakenpatronen van Nederlandse steden, 1875-1899, Ex Tempore 37(2): 77-98.
- Janssens A. & Walhout E.C. (2018), Gateways of disease? Do port cities have different cause-of-death patterns compared to other cities, the case of the Netherlands, 1875-1899. In: Puschmann P. & Riswick T. (Eds.), Building bridges. Scholars, history and historical demography. A festschrift in honor of Professor Theo Engelen. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers. 332-361.
- Kok J., Boomen N. van den, Hilevych Y., Hoedemaeckers J. & Walhout E.C. (2017), Beklemd in de scharnieren van de tijd. Beleid, praktijk en ervaringen van afstand ter adoptie door niet-gehuwde moeders in Nederland tussen 1956 en 1984 no. WODC-ONDERZOEK 2707. Nijmegen: Radboud University Nijmegen.
- Willems N., Holla S., Buchheim E., Bultman S., Groot M., Walhout E.C. & Zwarte I. de (Eds.) (2017), Gender and Archiving: Past, Present, Future. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 37. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Bock B., Duncan J., Buchheim E., Bultman S., Groot M., Walhout E.C. & Zwarte I. de (Eds.) (2017), Gendered Food Practices from Seed to Waste. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 36. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Aerts M., Buchheim E., Bultman S., Churampi Ramírez A., Groot M., Rasterhoff C., Schuurmans P., Walhout E.C. & Zwarte I. de (Eds.) (2015), Gender and Activism: Women’s Voices in Political Debate. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 35. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Buchheim E., Futselaar R., Bultman S., Churampi Ramírez A., Groot M., Jonker E., Müller-Schirmer A., Rasterhoff A., Verheul I. & Walhout E.C. (Eds.) (2014), Under Fire: Women and World War II. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 34. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Horstman K., Huijer M., Buchheim E., Bultman S., Groot M., Jonker E., Müller-Schirmer A., Walhout E.C. & Zande. H. van der (Eds.) (2013), Gender & Genes. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis no. 33. Hilversum: Verloren Publishers.
- Walhout E.C. (2010), Is breast best? Evaluating breastfeeding patterns and causes of infant death in a Dutch province in the period 1875-1900, History of the Family 15(1): 76-90.
- Dalen H. van, Poppel F. van & Walhout E.C. (2009), Diffusion of a social norm: tracing the emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922, The economic history review 62(1): 99-127.
- Poppel F. van, Schellekens J. & Walhout E.C. (2009), Oversterfte van jonge meisjes in Nederland in de negentiende en eerste helft twintigste eeuw, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis = The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 6(4): 37-69.