Dr Machteld Venken
Professor of Contemporary Transnational History, Centre of Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Email: machteld.venken@uni.lu
Profile
Machteld Venken is a Professor of Contemporary Transnational History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and Head of its Research Area on the Contemporary History of Luxembourg. She studied Slavic Languages and Cultures, European Studies and History in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. Venken earned her PhD in 2008 at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and her habilitation in 2018 at the University of Vienna (Austria). She has been a Principal Investigator of nine research projects funded in five European countries.
Research
Publications
Gruziel, Dominika and Venken, Machteld (eds.). Children, Border(land)s and Mixed Economies of Welfare, in: Childhood (Special Issue) 32/1 (2025).
Venken, Machteld. Peripheries at the Centre. Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe, New York, Berghahn Books, 2021. DOI: 10.3167/9781789209679.
Kind-Kovács, Friederike and Venken, Machteld (eds.). 1918, 1945, 1989: Childhood in Times of Political Transformation: Part II, in: Journal of Modern European History (Special Issue) 19/3 (2021).
Venken, Machteld, Kaisto, Virpi and Brambilla, Chiara (eds.). Children, Young People and Borders: A Multidisciplinary Outlook, in: Journal of Borderlands Studies (Special Issue) 36/2 (2021).