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Sanne Muurling

Project Manager

Sanne Muurling is Assistant Professor of Social History at Radboud University, with an expertise in the dynamics of gender and social inequalities in the lives of ordinary people between 1600 and 1900. Through topics such as crime and mortality she asks how categories such as gender, socio-economic status, single motherhood, migration background, or the place where someone lived determined what opportunities someone had in life. To this end, she employs a mixed-methods approach, combining archival sources such as legal records and local registers with Digital Humanities techniques, including GIS and statistical methods.

She studied socioeconomic history at VU Amsterdam and received her PhD in 2019 with research on gender dynamics in crime in the early modern period. Her book 'Everyday crime, criminal justice and gender in early modern Bologna' was published by Brill in 2021. She is an editor at TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History and The History of the Family.

At the IISH, Sanne works as a project manager for the ERC project Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean and the VIDI project Resisting Enslavement: A Global Historical Approach to Slavery in the Dutch Atlantic and Asian Empire (1620-1815).

Sanne Muurling