{"id":2377,"date":"2024-02-21T16:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/blog\/people\/machteld-venken\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:17:12","slug":"machteld-venken","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/people\/machteld-venken\/","title":{"rendered":"Machteld VENKEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"person-template\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-people-person-hero wp-block-unilux-blocks-hero\">\n            <section id=\"hero-page\" class=\"section py-0\">\n            <div class=\"max-w-screen-3xl mx-auto wp-block-unilux-blocks-hero\">\n                <div class=\"hero hero--overflow-none\">\n                    <header class=\"hero__header\">\n                        <div class=\"hero__container\">\n                            <span class=\"hero__title__subject\">\n                                Our People                            <\/span>\n                            <h1>\n                                Prof                                Machteld                                VENKEN                            <\/h1>\n                        <\/div>\n                    <\/header>\n                    <div class=\"hero__visual\">\n                        <img\n                                class=\"object-cover w-full h-full\"\n                                src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMzg2MTVfX01hY2h0ZWxkIFZFTktFTg==\"\n                                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMzg2MTVfX01hY2h0ZWxkIFZFTktFTg==--thumbnail 150w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMzg2MTVfX01hY2h0ZWxkIFZFTktFTg==--medium 300w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMzg2MTVfX01hY2h0ZWxkIFZFTktFTg==--medium_large 768w,https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/person-image\/NTAwMzg2MTVfX01hY2h0ZWxkIFZFTktFTg==--large 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<strong>\n                    Research stays in                <\/strong>\n            <\/h4>\n        <\/header>\n        <div class=\"list-highlighted__body\">\n            Belgium, Germany, Austria, Canada, France, Poland        <\/div>\n    <\/li>\n    <li class=\"list-highlighted__item\">\n        <header class=\"list-highlighted__header\">\n            <h4 class=\"title\">\n                <strong>\n                    Online presence                <\/strong>\n            <\/h4>\n        <\/header>\n        <div class=\"list-highlighted__body\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a><br><a href=\"www.machteldvenken.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal website<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0358-0827\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ORCID<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Machteld-Venken-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer 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class=\"wp-block-unilux-people-person-details\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary\">\n    <a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/orbilu.uni.lu\/profile?uid=50038615\" target=\"_blank\">Publications on ORBilu<\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section\n    id=\"tabpanel-a6575430-f082-438f-b067-dfe4886136e2\"\n    aria-labelledby=\"tab-a6575430-f082-438f-b067-dfe4886136e2\"\n    class=\"tab-panel fade hidden is-hidden\"\n>\n    \n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper \">\n        \n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list list-highlighted list-highlighted--architectural\"><li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"current-position\"\n    >\nCurrent position<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Machteld Venken is a Full Professor \/ Head Scientist 1 in Contemporary Transnational History and Head of the Research Group \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/research-groups\/contemporary-history-of-luxembourg\/\">Contemporary History of Luxembourg<\/a>\u2019 at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History of the 糖心Vlog.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"research\"\n    >\nResearch<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Her main research interests are transnational, transregional and comparative histories of Europe, migration, borderlands, oral history, the history of families and children, and citizen science. She has been a Principal Investigator of nine research projects funded in five European countries. Ongoing research projects are: Social Politics in European Borderlands. A Comparative and Transnational Study, 1870s-1990s (<a href=\"https:\/\/sociobord.eui.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sociobord<\/a>). She currently supervises the following PhD candidates: Johanna Jaschik, V\u00e9ronique Faber, Nicolas Arendt, Ira Yeroshko, Joanna Urbanek, Alex Relicovschi and Christelle Al Haddad.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"teaching\"\n    >\nTeaching<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Machteld Venken currently teaches the MA course \u2018History of Cross-Border Cooperation\u2019 and the PhD Strand Colloquium \u2018Transnational History and Digital Methods\u2019. She also offers MA thesis supervision: Alma Sabotic (2022), Endrita Avdimetaj (2023), Benjamin Juchem (2024), Dany Rodriguez Goncalves (2025) and Alessio Nardecchia (2025).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"outreach\"\n    >\nOutreach<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Recent outreach activities include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qVeQWMz_0Jw&amp;t=6s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prof. Machteld Venken explains why she became a mentor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/813071482?h=24fc187956\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Interview about her second monograph \u2018Peripheries to the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe\u2019: Intervista, European University Institute, 11.11.2021<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/unigr-cbs\/episodes\/ON-AIR---Border-Temporalities-e2hnmm0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ON AIR &#8211; Border Temporalities by ON AIR \u2013 UniGR-Center for Border Studies (spotify.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"awards-distinctions\"\n    >\nAwards\/Distinctions<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Machteld Venken has been awarded research funding as Principal Investigator from the Polish Ministry of Sciences and Higher Education, The Austrian Science Fund, the Imre Kertesz Kolleg \/ Institute of Advanced Studies of the Friedrich Schiller University, Innoviris (Belgium), and the Luxembourg National Research Fund.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"list-highlighted__item  wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item\">\n    <header class=\"list-highlighted__header wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-header\">\n    \n<h4 class=\"title text-18 font-bold has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"work-experience\"\n    >\nWork experience<\/h4>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-bigtext\">\n    <span>\n        \n    <\/span>\n<\/div><\/header><div class=\"list-highlighted__body wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-body\">\n    <div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-highlighted-list-item-free-content-area\">\n    \n<p>Venken joined the 糖心Vlog in November 2019 after a Visiting Scholarship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg \/ Institute of Advanced Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) and an Attract Brains for Brussels Fellowship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). 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