Biography
Gijsbert Oonk holds the endowed (Jean Monnet) chair: Europe in Globalizing World: Migration, Citizenship and Identity. This chair promotes education and research in the field of Global History, European Studies and National Identity. The Jean Monnet chairs are an initiative of the European Commission to promote education, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies at higher education institutions. Oonk is director of the Sport and Nation research program at Erasmus University Rotterdam. This interdisciplinary research program focuses on talented athletes with a migrant background within football and the Olympic Games in the context of changing citizenship, multiple citizenship and elite migration. For more information see: www.sportandnation.com
Oonk is also one of the academic advisers of EUROCLIO (European Association of History Educators). The chair will inspire the EUROCLIO program: Engaging History Education through memories and legacies of Europe's favorite sports. This program aims to promote the historical thinking of young people through football. The shared history of Europe generates a strong sense of togetherness and responsibility. This feeling can bring about active citizenship, especially among young people who are often less interested in study and history. Another goal of the project is to write a textbook: The Constitution in Utopia? Towards a just world in ten cases. The intended target groups are students, history teachers in secondary education, journalists and policy makers.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Full professor | Department of History
- oonk@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Gijsbert Oonk (2024) - No Birds of Passage.: A History of Gujarati Muslim Business Communities, 1800–1975: Edited by Michael O’ Sullivan, Harvard University Press 2023, 386 pp, illus, maps. ISBN: 9780674271906 (cloth). Business History, 1–2. - Business History, 1-2 - doi: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2354941
- Gijsbert Oonk (2023) - We played for 95.000 people but came home to a ban”: Reclaiming Herstory: The Untold Triumphs of Past Women Footballers Unearthed Despite FIFA’s Neglect - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk & Alexander Oonk (2023) - ‘This Is Not a Problem but an Issue’: Chinese-Born Table Tennis Players Representing Another Country at the Olympics, 1988–2020 - International Journal of the History of Sport, 40 (4), 350-369 - doi: 10.1080/09523367.2023.2186857 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Who Represents the Country? A Short History of Foreign-Born Athletes in the World Cup - [link]
- Jasmin Seijbel, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Expressing rivalry online: antisemitic rhetoric among Dutch football supporters on Twitter - Soccer and Society, 23 (8), 834–848 - doi: 10.1080/14660970.2022.2109800 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk & Jorn Schulting (2022) - Nationality Swapping in World Athletics: Cases and Contexts from the Middle East (1998– 2016) - doi: 10.4324/9781003032915-37 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Sport and nationality: towards thick and thin forms of citizenship - National Identities, 24 (3), 197-215 - doi: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1815421 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (2021) - Who May Represent the Country?: Football, Citizenship, Migration, and National Identity at the FIFA World Cup - The International Journal of the History of Sport, 37 (11), 1046-1065 - doi: 10.1080/09523367.2020.1844188 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (2020) - Gevestigde buitenstaanders. De Indiase Diaspora in Oost-Afrika, 1880-2000. - Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift (Leiden), 35 (3), 1-22
- Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - Who Are We Actually Cheering On? Sport, Migration, and National Identity - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - Has the World Cup become more migratory? A comparative history of foreign-born players in national football teams, c. 1930-2018. (accepted for publication) - Comparative Migration Studies, 7 (22) - doi: 10.1186/s40878-019-0118-6 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - Diaspora Networks - doi: 10.4324/9781315277813-15 - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - Who counts as a migrant footballer? A critical reflection and alternative approach to migrant football players in national tems at the FIFA World Cup 1930-2018 - The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35, 1071-1090 - doi: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1581769 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (2018) - Disconnecting from home: Contesting the salience of the diaspora - doi: 10.4324/9781315209050 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk & Gijs van Campenhout (2018) - Hyperdiversiteit wordt nieuwe norm WK?voetbal, opiniestuk in de Volkskrant 14-06-2018 - De Volkskrant - [link]
- Joost Jansen, Gijsbert Oonk & Godfried Engbersen (2018) - Nationality swapping in the Olympic field: towards the marketization of citizenship? - Citizenship Studies, 22 (5), 523-539 - doi: 10.1080/13621025.2018.1477921 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk, Alex van Stipriaan Luiscius & Sandra Manickam (2018) - Histories of Encounters; History @ Erasmus. Rotterdam
- Gijsbert Oonk, Alex van Stipriaan Luiscius & Sandra Manickam (2018) - Preface - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk & Gijs van Campenhout (2018) - The Emergence of Hyperdiversity at the World Cup Football 1930-2022 - [link]
- Gijsbert Oonk (1 February 2024) - Interview met NRC: 01-02-2024: Rel tekende de Afrika Cup voor Marokkko
- Gijsbert Oonk (28 November 2023) - Handballers uit Burundi gevlucht. Trouw 28/9. Interview.
- Gijsbert Oonk (28 October 2023) - Meer dan een rollende bal, interview met Theo Toebosch Elsevier Magazine
- Gijsbert Oonk (26 August 2023) - US women’s World Cup domination has ended. But the nation remains a global talent factory, Interview by By Jessie Yeung, CNN
- Gijsbert Oonk (7 August 2023) - US Womens World Cup
- Gijsbert Oonk (14 December 2022) - De cruciale rol van de diaspora op het WK,
- Gijsbert Oonk (8 December 2022) - How Migration has shaped the World Cup
- Gijsbert Oonk (8 December 2022) - How Migration shaped the World Cup
- Gijsbert Oonk (29 November 2022) - De Coup van Qatar
- Gijsbert Oonk (29 November 2022) - Het verlies van Qatar; interview in NRC 29-11-2022
- Thomas Peeters, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Gijsbert Oonk & Sandra Meeuwsen (2023) - Creation new Minor (BA-3) Sports @ Society, ESHCC with faculties of Economy (main coordinator) and Philosophy (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Football Makes HIstory (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Wie mag ons land representeren. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Nationality Swapping in the Olympic Field. Cases and Contexts from the Middle East 1998- 2016 (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Moderator of an international panel: Pass it to the classroom. (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Teaching the teachers on anti-semitism and nationalism (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - The FIFA World Cup: Football, Citizenship, and National Identity 1930-2022 (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2020) - Sport and Nation (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2020) - Euroclio (External organisation) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic - Gijsbert Oonk (2017) - Who may represent the Nation? Sport, migration and citizenship, and opportunities for football to address global (migration) history (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Robert Schuman Fellowship
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - “Football Makes History: Schools and Football Club Museums Unlocking Local Heritage education”. Projectnummer: 2021-2-NL01-KA220-SCH-000049248 PI 400.000=
- Gijsbert Oonk (2018) - Jean Monnet (ad Personam) Chair on Migration, Citizenship and Identity
- Gijsbert Oonk (2017) - Sport in the city: Anti-semitism and Football in Rotterdam
- Gijsbert Oonk (2015) - Sport and National Identity: Changing Citizenship and the Global Battle for Talent
- Gijsbert Oonk (2014) - Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
- Gijsbert Oonk (2014) - Honorary research affiliate of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg.
- Gijsbert Oonk (2011) - Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Fellow in Business History
Huiznga Instituut
- Start date approval
- May 2024
- End date approval
- May 2027
- Place
- NEDERLAND -DIVERS
- Description
- ik ben namens ESHCC lid van deze onderzoeksschool
Educational Minor History
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH9000
History, Memory and National Identity
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4234
Minor Sports and Society
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB53120
Minor Sports and Society
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB53120M
Global History
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH1101
Migration, Citizenship and Identity
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2205
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4050
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4052
