Anne Winter (MA VUB 2001, MSc LSE 2002, PhD VUB 2007) is Professor of History and part of the research team Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST) at the VUB, of which she was director from 2011 to 2021. She was awarded the 6-yearly prize I. Vanderschueren for the best PhD in the Human Sciences by the Research Council of the VUB (2010), and the 3-yearly prize of the Flemish Scientific Foundation (2011) awarded by the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, and was Francqui Research Professor at the VUB from 2012-2015. She spent extended research stays at Somerville College (University of Oxford) and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and held the Van Dyck Chair at University of California - Los Angeles during Spring Term 2017. She was/is editor of TSEG – Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (2010-2016), BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review (2017-2019), and Journal of Migration History (since 2019).

Anne Winter's research deals with the social and economic history of the Low Countries in the early modern period and long nineteenth century in an internationally comparative perspective, with a focus on the interactions between migration, social policy, urbanization and labour relations. Her teaching includes introductory and specialized courses on early modern Europe as well as long-term perspectives on social and economic history and urban history. She supervises BA, MA and PhD research on the history of migration, social policy, urban society, labour relations, crime and policing from the sixteenth to the long nineteenth centuries.

Selected publications include:

• Hilde Greefs & Anne Winter, The Democratization of Long-Distance Migration: Trajectories and Flows during the “Mobility Transition,” 1850–1910, Social Science History (2024, e-pub ahead of print)
• Anne Winter, ‘To help him recover from his losses’: Royal begging licences in the Austrian Netherlands’, 1760s-1780s, Cultural & Social History 21/2 (2024), pp. 207-227.
• Hilde Greefs & Anne Winter (eds), Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) 320p.
• Thijs Lambrecht & Anne Winter, An Old Poor Law on the Continent? Agrarian Capitalism, Poor Taxes and Village Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Coastal Flanders, Economic History Review 71/4 (2018) 1173-1198.
• Thijs Lambrecht & Anne Winter, Migration, Poor Relief and Local Autonomy: Settlement Policies in England and the Southern Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century, Past and Present 218/1 (2013) 91-126.
• Steven King & Anne Winter (eds), Migration, Settlement and Belonging in Europe, 1500–1930s: Comparative Perspectives (New York: Berghahn, 2013) 316p. (International Studies in Social History 23)
• Bert De Munck & Anne Winter (eds), Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012) 308p.
• Anne Winter, Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860 (London: Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 2009) 328p.
• Anne Winter, Vagrancy as an Adaptive Strategy: The Duchy of Brabant, 1767-1776, International Review of Social History 49 (2004) 249-278.