As of Wednesday 1 April 2015, Angélique Janssens has been appointed part-time endowed professor in Historical Demography at FASoS, with a special focus on gender and labour. She will be based at the Sociaal Historisch Centrum Limburg. She is also associate professor of Economic, Social and Demographic History at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
Her research interests are mainly focused on the study of fertility and mortality patterns in the past, but she is also interested in topics relating to the field of women’s work and patterns of male breadwinning. She has published on a wide range of topics relating to the history of the family. She is project leader of the NWO funded research project Genes, Germs and Resources on mortality and longevity in the past 200 years in the Netherlands. At FASoS she will concentrate on research into historical patterns of population and health in the Euregion, and on international comparative research on causes of death.
Angélique Janssens holds a PhD in History from Radboud University and has previously worked at Utrecht University and the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
