Marie-Gabrielle Verbergt — news

Lecture series “The Politics of Historicization”

With the Ghent Center for Meta- and Public History, we are organising a reading group and lecture series on what it means to ‘historicize’ — to treat a phenomenon as ‘historical’.

History, agency, competitive funding

Article out in Quaderni Storici, which opens their new section on the impact of research policy on historians.

Call for Abstracts “Histories of Scholarly Evaluation in the Sciences and Humanities”

Workshop to be held in Leuven, 27–29 September 2026. Deadline for abstracts on 31 January 2026.

Special Issue on the History of Peer Review in the Humanities

Six articles and an introduction on the past and present of peer review in the humanities in Minerva, edited together with Sjang ten Hagen.

Apache interview “Wetenschappelijke vrijheid gaat ook over geld”

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT

In Dutch.

Interviewed by two investigative journalists from Apache magazine about the rise of innovation consultancy in academia.

Dissertation review

Review of The Price of History in the Yearbook for the History of Intellectual Culture.

CAT Group “Freedom to Research”

Received a grant for a new CAT network on changing funding regimes and academic freedom, supported by the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study.

The Europeanisation of Universities

Job alert: briefly joining “The Europeanisation of Universities” project of Johan Östling at Lund University, February–July 2025.

Descartes Fellowship in Utrecht

Received a Descartes Fellowship to join the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities and work with Sjang ten Hagen, November–December 2024.

FWO Junior Postdoc Fellow 2024

A project on the history of peer review in the European humanities was selected by the Flemish Research Council (FWO) for funding.

University budget cuts in the Netherlands

A piece for the Belgian public about the Dutch budget cuts in the higher education sector. International awareness and solidarity are much needed here.

Wonderkamer 10

Essay (in Dutch) for the latest edition of Wonderkamer about scholarly vices — on research funding, grant consultants and greed. Order here.

Research featured in Knack

Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT

My research on the history of research funding was featured in the Belgian weekly magazine Knack.

Vlaamse PhD Cup

The Vlaamse PhD Cup is a science communication competition for young doctors to share their work with a broad public. I am one of the 16 participants in the 2024 edition.

The Price of History

After five and a half years in the making, I defended my dissertation on the history of research funding in June 2024.

PhD in Svenska Dagbladet

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

My dissertation was reviewed in Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden’s second biggest newspaper. Read (in Swedish) here.

Eos blog: Wie betaalt de rekening?

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT

In Dutch.

Eos Wetenschap is an independent and critical magazine about science for the broader public. I wrote a piece for them (in Dutch) on scientists and their money.

Claiming the People’s Past

Together with Berber Bevernage, Eline Mestdagh and Walderez Ramalho, I edited a volume about the way populist parties and leaders engage with the past. Find it on Cambridge University’s website.

Fresh Faces database

Selected as a young expert by Fameus to be part of their Fresh Faces database. Find me and the others here.