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Sophie De Schaepdrijver is Associate Professor of History at Perm State University, USA. She is an award-winning historian of the social and cultural history of the First World War.

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Birthdate
1961-09-11
Gender
female
Nationality
België
Birthplace
Kortrijk, Belgium
Education
University of Amsterdam (PhD, 1990)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1983)
European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Occupations
Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
Awards and honors
Resident Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University (2012)
Fellowship, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (2005-2006)
Belgian Free Speech Award (1999)
Fellowship, National Humanities Center (1995-1996)
Short biography
Sophie de Schaepdrijver (Kortrijk, 11 september 1961) is een Belgische historica. Zij publiceert over migratie, 19e-eeuwse steden, nationalisme, cultuur en de Verenigde Staten.

De Schaepdrijver studeerde geschiedenis aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1979-1983) en het European University Institute te Florence (1983-1986).

In 1983 trok ze naar Amsterdam, waar ze les gaf aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en verbonden was aan de Amsterdamse School voor Sociaal-wetenschappelijk Onderzoek. In 1990 promoveerde zij bij Prof Dr J. Goudsblom met een bekroond proefschrift Elites for the Capital? Foreign Migration to mid-nineteenth-century Brussels.

Zij doceerde moderne Europese geschiedenis aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (1990-1991) en aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (1991-1995).

Ze vertrok naar de Verenigde Staten om college te geven aan het National Humanities Center (1995-1996), de New York University (1996-2001) en de Princeton University (1999-2000).

Sinds 2000 doceert ze moderne Europese geschiedenis aan de Pennsylvania State University.

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Yes, it got a bit repetitive but i think life under occupation must have been very repetitive. I didn't know much about WWI except some English poets and a few novels, but this made me seek out some history. This is a book to read a bit at a time. If you want to do so, you can look up many of the people in the footnotes. I didn't do all of them, but did a number of them. I do wonder what became of Mary Thorp and if she wrote anything on WWII.
 
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Maya47Bob46 | Dec 28, 2017 |
Very well written, excellent book for a large audience. Insightful combination of internal Belgian history and wartime transformations, focusibng on mentality and representations, but never losing sight of the facts.
 
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