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Timon de Groot

Researcher

Timon de Groot is a researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He is currently working on a three-year research project titled A Just Transition: Comparing the Natural Gas Transition with the Renewable Energy Transition, for which he has received the Instituut Gak-KNAW award.

Timon previously researched the history of the Dutch Labour Authority, culminating in the book Een mens is geen machine | De Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie, 1890-2025 (A human being is not a machine | The Dutch Labour Authority, 1890-2025), published by WBooks in May 2025.

His doctoral research led to the publication of the book Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933, published by Berghahn Books in April 2023. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800739581 

From 2021 to 2023, Timon also worked for the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on Natural Gas Extraction in Groningen, and prior to that he was part of a research project focused on flexible working arrangements in the Netherlands, mainly with regard to part-time jobs.

Timon holds an MA in History (2013) and an MA in Philosophy (2012) from the University of Amsterdam, as well as a PhD in History (2018) from the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Publications: Timon de Groot – Research output — Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Selected other Publications:

  • "Part-Time Employment in the Breadwinner Era: Dutch Employers’ Initiatives to Control Female Labor Force Participation, 1945–1970," Enterprise & Society (2022). DOI: 10.1017/eso.2022.12
  • "Making Part-Time Work a Fully-Fledged Alternative: How the Dutch Social Partners Responded to a Dual Labour Market, 1966–1993," Labor History, 62(5–6) (2021), pp. 762–780. DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2021.1994533
  • "The Criminal Registry in the German Empire: The ‘Cult of Previous Convictions’ and the Offender’s Right to Be Forgotten," German History, 39(3) (2021), pp. 358–376. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghab039 
  • "Politieke misdadigers of eerloze criminelen? De invloed van de opstanden van 1848/49 op de plaats van het begrip eerloosheid in het Duits en Nederlands strafrecht," Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 132(1) (2019), pp. 21–47. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGESCH2019.1.003.GROOT 
Timon de Groot