Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (°1995) is a PhD Student at Ghent University (2018-2023, FWO aspirant) working at the intersection of historiography, the theory of history, the history of European integration, and the sociology of knowledge. She has obtained her BA in History at the University of Leuven (2016), holds an MA in History from Ghent University (2017) and an MA in the Social Sciences from The University of Chicago (2018), where she held a Fulbright Student Grant and B.A.E.F. Baillet Latour Fellowship (2017-2018). Marie-Gabrielle has also been awarded the André Schaepdrijver Prize (2018) and received a Vibeke Sørensen Grant from the European University Institute (2021).

Marie-Gabrielle's general research interests lie in the history of late 20th and 21st century historiography; in short, asking how historians' study of the past has changed over the past seventy years in practice, form, and function. Her current work touches on those questions by focusing on European Union sponsorship of historical research between 1970 and today. She is especially interested in the production and institutionalization of ideas about valuable knowledge and ‘good’ and ‘bad’ ways of knowing the past through peer review and selection mechanisms, as well as the changing relationships between the academy, funding organizations, and the state. Since March 2020, she has also been working on a collaborative side-project on ‘populist historicties’, analyzing the specific ways populists deal with the past and the way populists think about "knowing" history.

Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt (°1995) is doctoraatsstudent aan de Universiteit Gent (2018-2023, FWO-aspirant). Haar werk siuteert zich op het snijvlak van de historiografie, de theorie van de geschiedenis, de geschiedenis van de Europese integratie, en de sociologie van kennis. Ze behaalde haar BA Geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Leuven (2016), heeft een MA Geschiedenis van de Universiteit Gent (2017) en een MA in de Sociale Wetenschappen aan The University of Chicago (2018), waar ze met een Fulbright Student Grant en B.A.E.F. Baillet Latour Fellowship (2017-2018) studeerde. Marie-Gabrielle ontving in 2018 de André Schaepdrijver Prijs voor beste masterscriptie van de Opleiding Geschiedenis aan de UGent en ontving een Vibeke Sørensen Grant van het Europees Universitair Instituut (2021).

Marie-Gabrielle's algemene onderzoeksinteresses liggen in de geschiedenis van de laat 20ste en 21ste eeuwse geschiedschrijving. De centrale vraag die haar bezighoud is hoe de studie van het verleden door historici in de afgelopen zeventig jaar is veranderd in praktijk, vorm en functie. Haar huidig werk raakt aan die vragen door zich te richten op de sponsoring van historisch onderzoek door de Europese Unie tussen 1970 en nu. Ze is vooral geïnteresseerd in de productie en institutionalisering van ideeën over waardevolle kennis en 'goede' en 'slechte' manieren om het verleden te kennen via peer review en selectiemechanismen, en in de veranderende relaties tussen de academie, financieringsorganisaties en de staat. Sinds maart 2020 werkt ze ook aan een nevenproject over 'populistische geschiedschrijving', waarin ze de specifieke manieren analyseert waarop populisten omgaan met het verleden en de manier waarop populisten denken over het 'kennen' van de geschiedenis.

Projecten

Projecten als doctoraatsonderzoeker

Sponsoring a European historical culture. Representations of the past promoted by the Council of Europe and European Union, 1954-today (2018 - 2022)

Projecten als onderzoeker

TAPAS. Thinking about the past

Publicaties

Belangrijkste publicaties

On the emergence of anti-relativism in the EU's historical culture (2000-2020)(2022)
- Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt
Borgesian dreams and epistemic nightmares : the effects of early computer-use on French medievalists (1970-1995)(2019)
- Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt
Constructing and Deconstructing the “State”: the Case of the Low Countries(2017)
- Frederik Buylaert
- Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt

Meest recente publicaties

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Onderwijs

Marie-Gabrielle is currently assisting in the course Research Project (A004062) lectured by Frederik Buylaert in the Master Program in History. This course aims to familiarize advanced MA students who have an outspoken interest in academic research with the practice, management and societal outreach of academic research.

Dring the academic year 2020-2021, Marie-Gabrielle co-taught Historical Practice III: Bachelor paper (A004034) with Berber Bevernage (BA Program in History). Their module focused on the way populist groups and movements engage with the past and taught students to write a review article about a specific case.

During the academic year 2019-2020, Marie-Gabrielle was one of the lecturers for the course Historical Practice II: Modern and Contemporary History (A004030, Bachelor Program in History). Her specific seminar looked at culture and memory politics in the European Parliament since 1970 up to the present day. With her students, she covered various aspects of the historical métier: from source criticism to making a status quaestionis, developing a research problem and question, and finally writing a compelling historical paper.

Aankondigingen

Marie-Gabrielle is an active member of the research groups TAPAS/Thinking About the PAst and the International Network for the Theory of History. With TAPAS, she co-organized, among other things, a doctoral school series on practicing of history in super-diverse societies as well as an online reading group series on history and responsibility. The current INTH focus is on populist engagements with the past. For INTH, Marie-Gabrielle is also editor of the book reviews.

INTH Edited volume on Populist Historicities: Populist Engagements with the Past and the Challenges to Historical Thinking (call closed September 2020)
TAPAS Online Reading Group Series on "Responsibilizing History" (part 2 - Spring 2022)
TAPAS Online Reading Group Series on “Responsibilizing History" (part 1 -Spring 2021)
TAPAS Workshop Series and Doctoral School “Practicing History in Super-Diverse Societies”, Fall 2019-Spring 2020
TAPAS/CARAM Public Debate “Restitutie van koloniale collecties in België: Juridisch vraagstuk, politieke uitdaging, of morele plicht?” December 4, 2019
TAPAS/CARAM Conference “Restitution of Colonial Collections in Europe: Possibilities, Challenges, Dilemmas” December 2-3, 2019
INTH Research Profile

Marie-Gabrielle is also member of the Sarton Centre for the History of Science at Ghent University. For activities of the Sarton Centre, click here.

Dienstverlening

Marie-Gabrielle is an elected representative for the AAP staff (doctoral and postdoctoral staff) for the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (mandate for 2020-2022). As representative, she is seating in multiple commissions:

Faculty Commission for Scientific Research (Commissie Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, CWO)
Faculty Wellbeing and Environment Commission (Facultaire Commissie Welzijn en Milieu)
Faculty Teaching Evaluation Commission (Facultaire Onderwijsevaluatiecommissie)
Departmental Diversity Commission (Departementale Diversiteitscommissie)
Multiple ad hoc appointment committees

For more information about the work of our team, see our new webpage.

Marie-Gabrielle is also serving as Vice President of the Board (2022-2024) and was previously President of the Board (2020-2022) and Member of the Board (2018-2019) of the Alumni Association of Ghent University’s History program (Oud-Studenten Geschiedenis Gent). The association organizes lectures, museums visits, et al. for its members, facilitates networking between current students and alumni, and awards prizes for excellent Master's dissertations. As President, Marie-Gabrielle managed the organization of the Association’s 75th Anniversary which took place in 2022. With the board, she also launched an online discussion forum about the Flemish Government’s initiative to establish a Canon of Flemish History (Canon Van Vlaanderen), and co-led an interview project about historian’s professional experience called “Historici en hun jobs” in collaboration with Faculty Alumni Administration.