Personal profile
Expertise
Reinout Vander Hulst is a lecturer in history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and is part of the team coordinating the transfer of the “Africa Archives” to the Belgian State Archives. He studied history and political science at the VUB, and obtained his PhD in 2023 at KU Leuven with a dissertation on the interactions between colonialism, medicine, and Catholicism. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Kinshasa and at the Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre in Paris. His research specializes in the history of Belgian colonialism, with particular attention to African intermediaries, colony-metropole relations, violence, and bureaucratic power. He is currently studying the functioning of colonial military justice within the framework of the DIGICOLJUST-2 and GUSANGIRA projects.
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Projects
- 3 Active
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OZR4446: FORwARD – Force Publique: Analyzing the Remains and Dynamics of Military Culture between Colony and Metropole (ca. 1878-1994)
Vander Hulst, R. (Administrative Promotor)
1/02/26 → 31/01/30
Project: Fundamental
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SRP101: Living with capitalism: comparative histories of inequality (1200-2000)
Lambert, B. (Administrative Promotor), Ryckbosch, W. (Administrative Promotor), Ryckbosch, W. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Lambert, B. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Winter, A. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Henriet, B. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Van Gelder, K. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), de Mûelenaere, N. (CoI (Co-Promotor)), Gijbels, J. (CoI (Co-Promotor)) & Vander Hulst, R. (CoI (Co-Promotor))
1/03/24 → 28/02/29
Project: Fundamental
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FEDTWIN5: Gusangira: Improving access to and sharing the colonial archives on Rwanda and Burundi
Henriet, B. (Administrative Promotor), Vander Hulst, R. (Mandate) & Luyckfasseel, M. (PI (Promotor, Principal Investigator))
1/09/23 → 31/08/28
Project: Fundamental
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Military Justice in the Field: Law, Order and Violence in the Prosecutors’ Archives of Belgian Colonial Troops at ‘War’
Vander Hulst, R., 25 Jan 2026, In: Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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'Des blancs comme vous': intersubjectivity and colonial nostalgia in Congolese memories of Lovanium University
Vander Hulst, R., 2025, In: Oral History. 53, 2, p. 80-90 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Emizet François Kisangani, The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State: Revisiting Colonialism: /
Vander Hulst, R., 31 Oct 2025, In: BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review. 14038, 38, 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book review
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Aligning Faith with Medicine: Medical Ethics, Reproduction and Catholic Morality in Francophone and Anglophone Normative Literature, c. 1840-1960
Gijbels, J., Lancaster, C., Maehle, A.-H. & Vander Hulst, R., Sept 2022, In: Journal of Religious History. 46, 3, p. 439-459 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Physician-apostles for Christ. The Belgian Saint Luc Society and the making of a Catholic medical identity, 1900-1940.
Vander Hulst, R. & Vandendriessche, J., 2021, In: Histoire, médecine et santé. 17, p. 133-154 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
- 1 Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Missionaries and Violence
Vander Hulst, R. (Speaker)
23 Jan 2026Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar