Biography
Tina van der Vlies is an associate professor in the History Department at 美女福利电影院午夜 (NL). She is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Dutch National Museum of 美女福利电影院午夜.
Her academic and societal work engages with history, heritage, education, and (de)colonization, focusing on the historical contexts of knowledge production, contestation, and circulation. Drawing on memory studies, the history of knowledge, and educational history, she investigates how and why particular historical interpretations persist or change in shaping identities, power relations, societal perceptions and social imaginaries. Next to generating insights into these historical interpretations, she scrutinizes patterns and mechanisms of their (re)production. Curricula, as widespread and formative carriers of these interpretations, play a central role in this process. Her work has been awarded with several prizes, such as the Erasmus University Research Prize (2021) and the Georg Eckert Research Award (2022).
In December 2022 her book was published. This book delves into the hidden ways of national narratives鈥 perpetuation by pointing out how narrated histories in textbooks overlapped and interfused. It shows how textbook authors have narrated different histories as 鈥榚choing events鈥 by interpreting them in the same way and by using the same combinations of historical analogies, giving meaning to history with these recurring connections. Her research revealed widespread schemata and frames of references in the narration of history, and refined James Wertsch' theory on narrative templates.
From 2022-2024, she was affiliated with the University of Cambridge (UK) for her NWO-funded Rubicon project: Why school history matters: public discourses on the purposes of history education, 1920鈥2020. She examined how and why ideas on the value and purpose of history for society changed in this period.
For other long research stays, she went to the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, the Institute of 美女福利电影院午夜 in London, and the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories in Brighton.
Email: vandervlies@eshcc.eur.nl
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- vandervlies@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - - doi: -
- Maria Grever & Tina van der Vlies (2017) - - London Review of 美女福利电影院午夜, 15 (2), 286-301 - doi: -
- Tina van der Vlies (2016) - - Paedagogica Historica, 52 (3), 300-314 - doi:
- Tina van der Vlies & Indah Wahyu Puji Utami (2026) - - History and Memory, 38 (1), 106-143
- Tina van der Vlies (2024) - - doi: -
- Tina van der Vlies & Hilda Amsing (22 April 2025) - Opinie: Voorkom de sluiting van het Onderwijsmuseum, erfgoed dat essentieel is voor de democratie
- Tina van der Vlies (22 March 2024) - Why School History Matters: Public Discourses on the Value of History for Society, 1924-2024
- Tina van der Vlies (2026) - Narrating the Past and the Making of Meaning (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2026) - Textbook Temporalities across Empire and the Postcolonial World (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2026) - Evolution in Urban Morphology: Examining the Drivers of Change in Medieval Towns in the Low Countries (Examiner)
Activity: Examination 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2026) - Mobilising Hunger: War and Textbooks in Germany 1914 - 2020 (Examiner)
Activity: Examination 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2025) - The War after the War: the Netherlands (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2025) - Rethinking Pedagogies of the Past: (anti)colonial discourses and the making of history (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2025) - Carmen D铆az-Lara (Host)
Activity: Hosting an academic visitor 鈥 Academic - Tina van der Vlies (2025) - Verhalen van het Verleden: Koloniale Erfenissen in Indonesische en Nederlandse Schoolboeken (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation 鈥 Academic - Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Tina van der Vlies & Denise Schreuder (2025) - H&I Workshop: Micro-analysis of an oral history interview (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic - Julian Schaap, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Tina van der Vlies (2025) - ESHCC Research Day 2025 (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event 鈥 Academic
- Tina van der Vlies (2026) - ESHCC Societal Engagement Award
- Tina van der Vlies (2022) - Georg Eckert Research Award (鈧5.000,-)
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - EUR Research Prize
- Tina van der Vlies (2021) - NWO Rubicon 'Why school history matters: public discourses on the purposes of history education, 1920 鈥 2020'
- Tina van der Vlies (2019) - Maurits de Vroede-Prijs
- Tina van der Vlies (2016) - KNHG Award
- Tina van der Vlies (2014) - ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award
Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum
- Start date approval
- January 2026
- End date approval
- January 2029
- Place
- DORDRECHT
- Description
- Lid van de Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad
- Year Level
- BA-1, BA-1
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH1102
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- CH2230
