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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).
Research interests
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 (eds), Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500-1930s (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018) 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.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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OZRSAB3: The regulation of mobility, labour and poor relief in European social policy, c. 1350-1914
1/10/20 → 30/09/24
Project: Fundamental
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OZR3601: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UGent, HELSEN Lore
10/01/20 → 9/01/24
Project: Fundamental
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SRP58: SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Inequality, Migration and Social Relations in Urban Brabant and Flanders, c. 1350-1914
Winter, A., Ryckbosch, W. & Deneweth, H.
1/03/19 → 29/02/24
Project: Fundamental
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CONI332: Inschrijvingen: Huldeboek en de studiedag in het kader van het emeritaat van Prof. H. Soly.
2/02/11 → …
Project: Fundamental
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Circuits of migration to a port in the making: Antwerp, 1760-1860
Winter, A., 2022, Port-Cities and their Hinterlands. Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the Early Seventeenth Century to 1939. Lee, R. & McNamara, P. (eds.). Routledge, p. 165-194 30 p. (Routledge Explorations in Economic History).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Non-Nationals between Belonging and Removal: Urban Practices of Policies towards Foreigners, c. 1830-1880
Debackere, E. & Winter, A., 2022, Belonging across Borders. Transnational Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Harders, L. & Schnicke, F. (eds.). Oxford University Press, p. 87-110 24 p. (Studies of the German Historical Institute London).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Cities in Motion: Mobility, Migration Selectivity and Demographic Change in Belgian Cities, 1846-1910
Greefs, H. & Winter, A., 2020, Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020). Blondé, B., Geens, S., Greefs, H., Ryckbosch, W., Soens, T. & Stabel, P. (eds.). Brepols Publishers, p. 79-100 22 p. (Studies in European Urban History; vol. 50).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Foreign Female Sex Workers in an Atlantic Port City: Elite Prostitution in Late Nineteenth-Century Antwerp
Greefs, H. & Winter, A., 2020, Migrants and the Making of the Urban-Maritime World: Agency and Mobility in Port Cities, c. 1570–1940. Christina, R. & Martin, Ö. (eds.). Routledge, p. 195-221 26 p. (Routledge Advances in Urban History; vol. 8).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Introduction: Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s
Greefs, H. & Winter, A., 2020, Migration Policies and Materialities of Identification in European Cities: Papers and Gates, 1500–1930s. Greefs, H. & Winter, A. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 3-23 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Prizes
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Prijs Professor Dr. R. de Bock-Doehaerd
Winter, Anne (Recipient), 2002
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Prize of the Vlaamse Wetenschappelijke Stichting for the Human Sciences
Winter, Anne (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Begging as Insurance in the Austrian Netherlands, c. 1750-1790
Anne Winter (Invited speaker)
7 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Identity Documents of Foreign Migrants Arriving in Antwerp (1850–1910)
Anne Winter (Speaker)
22 Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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PhD Defence Martin Schoups, Meesters van de straat. Collectieve actie en de strijd om de publieke ruimte: Antwerpen (1884-1936) (Event)
Anne Winter (Jury) & Antoon Vrints (Supervisor)
23 May 2022Activity: Membership › Member of PhD committee
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15th Conference of the European Association for Urban History: 'Inequality and the City'
Anne Winter (Chair) & Hilde Greefs (Chair)
3 Sep 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Foreign Female Sex Workers in an Atlantic Port City: Elite Prostitution in Late Nineteenth-Century Antwerp
Anne Winter (Speaker) & Hilde Greefs (Contributor)
2 Sep 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
Thesis
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De expat en de stad. Den Haag en Jakarta, 1945-2015: The expat and the city. The Hague and Jakarta, 1945-2015
Author: Winter, A. & Smit, A. X., 25 Jan 2018Supervisor: Lucassen, L. (External person) (Promotor), Willems, W. (External person) (Promotor) & Nordholt, H. S. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Divided interests, divided migrants: The rationales of policies regarding labour mobility in Western Europe, c. 1550-1914
Author: Winter, A. & Grafe, R., 1 Nov 2002Supervisor: Grafe, R. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Een arbeidersbuurt onder de rook van 'de Sphinx. Een sociaal-ruimtelijke geschiedenis van het Boschstraatkwartier-Oost te Maastricht, 1829-1904
Author: Winter, A. & van Vugt, T., 27 Feb 2015Supervisor: Knotter, A. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Mobiliteit in een transitieperiode: 'vagebonden' in Brabant, 1767-1776
Author: Winter, A. & Soly, H., 2001Supervisor: Soly, H. (Promotor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Un antisémitisme latent ? La criminalisation du juif de Cureghem par la Sûreté Publique et ses institutions partenaires (1880-1930)
Author: Winter, A. & Zian, Y., 3 May 2018Supervisor: Schreiber, J. (External person) (Promotor), Bergmann, W. (External person) (Promotor) & Wyrwa, U. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis