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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
Outsiders and the Law. Uncovering Criminal Justice Trajectories in Nineteeth-Century Belgium - OUTLAW
(
2021
-
2025
)
Projects as co-supervisor
Negotiating justice and (in)equality. Criminal justice trajectories in nineteenth-century Belgium, 1870-1910
(
2023
-
2027
)
Publications
Key publications
Police–public relations in transition in Antwerp, 1840s–1914
(2017
)
Margo De Koster
Barbara Deruytter
Antoon Vrints
Tweehonderd jaar justitie: historische encyclopedie van de Belgische justitie
(2015
)
Dirk Heirbaut
Xavier Rousseaux
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.
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.
De Koster, Margo. “Kind Als Gevaar : Het Risicokind.”
Een Beeld van Een Kind : Inleiding in de Pedagogiek
, edited by Lieselot De Wilde et al., Owl Press, 2023, pp. 301–11.
De Koster, Margo, and Ayfer Erkul. “Removing Local Nuisances, Arresting Masterless Strangers, and Granting ’nights on Request’ : The Policing of Vagrancy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Antwerp and Brussels.”
TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR SOCIALE EN ECONOMISCHE GESCHIEDENIS
, vol. 20, no. 1, 2023, pp. 121–52, doi:10.52024/tseg.13642.
De Koster, Margo, and Laura Nys. “Archieven : Schatkamers Vol Levens.”
De Publieke Historicus : Bruno De Wever En Zijn Vak
, edited by Koen Aerts et al., Lannoo, 2023, pp. 193–214.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Historical Criticism
History of Belgium
Historical Criticism of Pictures and Text in Mass Media