Biography
Maarten Van Dijck (1980) is associate professor in history and theory of the social sciences at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His teaching concerns the theories and methodologies used in historical and social research. Maarten is specialised in urban history from long-term perspective. His PhD research dealt with the complex relation between criminalization, urbanization and behavior changes in the urban societies of the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period. This thesis claims that urban growth in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries caused the decline of interpersonal violence in Europe. Homcide rates tend to be lower in larger cities, especially after 1500. He also studied the evolution of democracy, civil societies and public spheres in the Low Countries during the late medieval and the early modern period. A third research line deals with the unequal distribution of social resources in the Low Countries during the early modern period.
Maarten's research makes use of concepts from the social sciences to understand long-term historical developments such as the rise of democratic societies. Methodologically, he makes use of digital humanities techniques in his research such as GIS and Social Network Analysis.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- vandijck@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Maarten van Dijck (2024) - Inclusive institutions?: Access to political power in the city of Tainan (Fort Zeelandia) in Dutch Formosa (1655-1662) - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2023) - "Changez vos Feuilles, Gardez Vos Racines": A Personal Vision on History Education at the Erasmus University - Erasmus Student Journal of History Studies (History Collective), 1, 96-101 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2020) - Violent classes?: Interpersonal violence and social inequality in Mechelen, 1350-1700 - doi: 10.1484/M.SEUH-EB.5.120453 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2019) - Antwerpen is het stad en de rest is parking - Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 132, 319-321 - doi: 10.5117/TVGESCH2019.2.008.BESP - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2018) - Rotterdam and the beginnings of global trade in the early modern period - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2017) - Democracy and Civil Society in the Early Modern Period: The Rise of Three Types of Civil Societies in the Spanish Netherlands and the Dutch Republic - Social Science History, 41 (1), 59-81 - doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.38 - [link]
- Maarten F. Van Dijck, Bert De Munck & Nikolas Terpstra (2017) - Relocating Civil Society: Theories and Practices of Civil Society between Late Medieval and Modern Society - Social Science History, 41 (Special Issues 1), 1-17 - doi: 10.1017/ssh.2016.35 - [link]
- Maarten van Dijck (2015) - Measuring different forms of social capital in early modern Dutch towns. A comparison of Leiden and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century
- Maarten van Dijck (2015) - From sub to counterculture. The criminalization of youth culture in the Low Countries, 1400-1800
- Maarten van Dijck, A Van Hiel & E Raspoet (2015) - Monkey see, monkey do: de vele oorzaken van agressie - Knack, 114-118
- Maarten van Dijck (2022) - Historicidagen 2024 (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Maarten Dijck & Jeroen Euwe (2019) - The Wine Business in Rotterdam, 1600-1900 (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Maarten Dijck (2018) - Dutch port cities in the early modern period: local responses to global challenges (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Maarten Dijck (2018) - Women in business in New Amsterdam and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Maarten Dijck (2017) - Economic networks in the seventeenth-century Dutch Atlantic. Social capital in early modern New Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Maarten Dijck (2016) - Gendered networks in early modern Dutch harbor towns. A comparison of Cape Town, New Amsterdam and Rotterdam during the seventeenth century (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Maarten van Dijck (2015) - Familiaal kapitaal. De familiale netwerken van testateurs in het zestiende-eeuwse Mechelen (Examiner)
Activiteit: Examination › Academic - Maarten Dijck (2015) - Social Capital and Economic Development in Cape Town and New Amsterdam (c. 1640-1680) (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Maarten van Dijck (2014) - Boundaries transcended. Sisters of religious confraternities in a small early modern town in the Southern Netherlands (Examiner)
Activiteit: Examination › Academic - Maarten Dijck (2014) - Settler strategies. Social networks in New Amsterdam and Cape Town in the second half of the seventeenth century (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
Philosophy of History
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2229
Applied History MA Project
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4052
Honours Class
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2100
Heuristic Skills and Sources
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH1104
History and Social Sciences
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH1106
World Politics after Empire
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH2221
The Public Role of Historians
- Level
- BA-3
- Year Level
- BA-3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH3051
The Origins of Global Order
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4017
Histories of Diversity
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4019
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4050
Creative Ind. in the Global Economy
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4011
Global Order in the Postcolonial World
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4020
Rise of the Global City
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CH4215