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Pepijn Brandon

Senior Researcher

Pepijn Brandon is senior researcher at the IISH and assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His work focuses on three connected themes: the history of capitalism, war and economic development, and slavery.

Brandon obtained his MA in history in 2007 (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, and his PhD in history (cum laude) in 2013 at the same institution.

His dissertation, published in 2015 as War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) (Leiden: Brill 2015; paperback edition Chicago: Haymarket Books 2017) was awarded 'Best dissertation of the year 2013' by the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Culture and History and won the D.J. Veegens Award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.

From September 2014 until January 2016, Brandon has worked at the University of Pittsburgh on an NWO-Rubicon fellowship. In 2016, he obtained an NWO Veni-scholarship for his project Naval shipyards: Laboratories of capitalism.

Publications: Pepijn Brandon – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

IISH Staff | Pepijn Brandon - Photo by Martin van Welzen

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