Home>Anne Van Mourik
Research Interest(s): War against civilians, Famine and Starvation, Economic Warfare, Colonial history of Netherlands and Germany, Politisation of Victimhood; Modern German History, First World War and Second World War, Global and transnational history
Discipline(s): History
Language(s): English
Biography
Anne van Mourik is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre d’Histoire of Sciences Po, working on the ERC Advanced Grant project "The Global War on Civilians: 1905–1945", led by Professor Sheldon Garon.
Anne van Mourik defends her PhD titled Mobilizing Hunger: War and Textbooks in Germany 1914-2020 at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies and University of Amsterdam in 2025.
Anne van Mourik is interested in how societies deal with war and mass violence. She explores the significance of German war related hunger periods in German education and shows how these afterlives became crucial for German identity formation and state building.
Previously she was involved in projects on the role of the Dutch Red Cross during WWII and Dutch violence in Indonesia (1945-1950).
Anne is the creator of the NIOD-Rewind Podcast on war and violence and her recent publications include articles in The Journal of Transatlantic Studies and Holocaust and Genocide Studies (2024, 2025).
