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Prof. Dr. Margo De Koster
Prof. Dr. Margo De Koster
margo.dekoster@ugent.be
Department
Department of History
Research group(s)
SocialHistory - Social History since 1750
Other institution(s)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Department of Criminology
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Projects
Projects as supervisor
Connecting home, family, and community. A study into the trajectories and roles of Turkish migrant women in Ghent between 1964 and 1979
(
2025
-
2028
)
Negotiating justice and (in)equality. Criminal justice trajectories in nineteenth-century Belgium, 1870-1910
(
2023
-
2027
)
OUTLAW. Outsiders and the law. Uncovering criminal justice trajectories in nineteeth-century Belgium
(
2021
-
2026
)
Police surveillance and mobility of Russian migrants in Belgian cities, 1880-1914
(
2020
-
2027
)
NaPol-Intel. Nationalizing police intelligence in Belgium (1918-1961)
(
2019
-
2025
)
Publications
Key publications
Archieven : schatkamers vol levens
(2023
)
Margo De Koster
Laura Nys
Removing local nuisances, arresting masterless strangers, and granting ‘nights on request’ : the policing of vagrancy in late-nineteenth-century Antwerp and Brussels
(2023
)
Margo De Koster
Ayfer Erkul
The new police as agents of class control? : Urban policing and its socio-geographical focus in nineteenth-century Antwerp
(2020
)
Margo De Koster
Antoon Vrints
Negotiating controls, perils, and pleasures in the urban night : working-class youth in early-twentieth-century Antwerp
(2020
)
Margo De Koster
Most recent publications
Nys, Laura, and Margo De Koster. “Historians of Crime and Stories of True Crime : Historians, Emotion and True Crime Stories on Incarcerated People in the 19th Century.”
“Behind Bars” Penal Heritage Symposium, Abstracts
, 2025.
Geelhoed, Fiore, et al. “Oude En Nieuwe Lijnen in de Culturele criminologie : Inleiding Op Het Varia-Nummer.”
TIJDSCHRIFT OVER CULTUUR & CRIMINALITEIT
, vol. 15, no. 2, 2025, pp. 3–9, doi:10.5553/TCC/221195072025015002001.
Campion, Jonas, et al., editors. “La Police et Maintien de l’ordre.”
JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 55, no. 3–4, 2025.
Campion, Jonas, et al. “Comprendre Les ‘Chagrins Des Belges’? Bilans et Perspectives de l’historiographie Policière et de La Sécurité En Belgique (Périodes Moderne et Contemporaine).”
JOURNAL OF BELGIAN HISTORY-REVUE BELGE D HISTOIRE CONTEMPORAINE-BELGISCH TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR NIEUWSTE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 55, no. 3–4, 2025, pp. 10–31.
Vrints, Antoon, and Margo De Koster. “Van Bovenaf, van Onderuit En Weer Terug? Tendensen in Het Onderzoek over Politie in de Moderne Stad.”
STADSGESCHIEDENIS (LEUVEN)
, vol. 19, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1–7.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Historical Criticism
History of Belgium
Historical Criticism of Pictures and Text in Mass Media
