The Merchant as an Exponent of Dutch Identity. Image-Forming Processes in a Comparative Historical Perspective (1579-1795) A so-called 'Veni' project, funded by the Innovation Impetus of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, at VU University Amsterdam Duration of appointment: 2003-2007 Project leader and supervisor: Dorothee Sturkenboom More ... Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West: Part Two Research project financed by the American National Science Foundation, headed by Professor M.C. Jacob, at the University of California at Los Angeles Duration of postdoctoral appointment: 2000-2002 Project leader: Professor M.C. Jacob Research components on which Sturkenboom worked: - The Ladies’ Society of Natural Sciences in Middelburg, the Netherlands 1785-1887 - The integration of the sciences into the educational system of the Southern Netherlands, 1795-1830 More ... The Forming of Public Opinion in an Enlightened Age Research for an anthology of Dutch Spectatorial weekly magazines from the eighteenth century, financed by the Dutch Literary Society Duration: 1999-2000. Published in 2001, financially supported by the Prince Bernard Fund More ... Emotions and Gender in Dutch Spectatorial Writings Doctoral research financed by the Huizinga Institute, at the Institute for Genderstudies at the Radboud University Nijmegen Duration of assistant research fellowship: 1991-1996. Ph.D. thesis completed in 1998 Tutors: Professor W.Th.M. Frijhoff and Professor W.H.M. Jansen More ... Expression of Emotions Concerned with Death. Changes in Standards and Norms 1750-1988 Master’s thesis in Economic and Social History, Radboud University Nijmegen. Completed in 1989 Thesis supervisor: Dr. H.S.J. Jansen More ... The Criminal Prosecution of Vagrants, with Specific Reference to Guelderland between 1545 and 1798 Thesis for Bachelor’s degree in Economic and Social History, Radboud University Nijmegen. Completed in 1984 Thesis supervisor: Dr. H.S.J. Jansen More ...