Sophie, Baroness De Schaepdrijver (b.

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, 11 September 1961) is a Belgian historian.

Education

She graduated in history at the

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(

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) and obtained a PhD with a dissertation on ''Elites for the Capital? Foreign Migration to mid-nineteenth-century Brussels'' at the

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Career

From 1986 until 1988, de Schaepdrijver was assistant professor at the department of history of the

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. From 1988 until 1990, she worked as a dissertation fellow at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research. She worked from 1990 until 1991 as associate professor at the department of history of

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. From 1991 until 1995, she worked as associate professor at

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. She left for the

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in 1995, where from 1995 until 1996, she was a fellow at the

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, N.C. . From 1996 until 2001, she was a visiting associate professor at

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. From 1999 until 2000 she worked as a visiting fellow at

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. Since 2001, she is associate professor of modern European history at the

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. In 2005-2006 she was a fellow at the ''Netherlands Institute for Advances Study'' (NIAS) in

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Bibliography

* ''De Groote Oorlog: het Koninkrijk België in de Eerste Wereldoorlog'' (E: The Great War: the kingdom of Belgium in the First World War), (1997) * Taferelen uit het burgerleven, (2002) * Gent: een stadsmuseum in Vlaanderen (2002).

Awards

* 1990 - Maurits Naessens Award (Bank van Parijs en de Nederlanden) for her dissertation. * 1999 -

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. * 2016 - by Royal Decree of 10 July 2016 de Schaepdrijver was given the non-hereditary title of baroness.Volgende Belgen worden in adelstand verheven
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References

Sources

(archive) De Groote Oorlog
(in Dutch)
Sophie De Schaepdrijver
1961 births Living people 20th-century Belgian historians Belgian women historians Vrije Universiteit Brussel alumni People from Kortrijk Historians of Belgium Pennsylvania State University faculty 21st-century Belgian historians {{Belgium-historian-stub