Nadine Akkerman#
| Membership Number: | 6225 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://nadineakkerman.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3063-2610 |
| Twitter: | @misswalsingham |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-nadine-akkerman-frhists-32882612 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Tenured Associate Professor / Reader in Early Modern English Literature , Leiden University (LUCAS)
- 2018 - 2019 One Year Visiting Fellowship, All Souls College, Oxford, UK-
- 2015 - 2016 One Year NIAS Fellowship, The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2011 - 2015 NWO VENI Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of English Language and Culture, LUCAS
- 2010 - 2011 NWO RUBICON Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Institute of History, Leiden University at Leiden since 2007, holding lectureships and fellowships, before which: -
- 2006 - 2007 Junior Lecturer in English Literature (0.3 FTE) Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- 2006 CELL Visiting Fellowship, Centre of Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), Queen Mary, University of London
- 2002 - 2006 PhD student/Junior Lecturer in English Literature (0.8 FTE), VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Epistolary writing
- Thirty Years' War
- Women's history
- Intelligence studies
- Manuscript studies
- Intelligence (i.e. espionage) studies
- Women's writing
- Epistolary studies
- Masques
- Women's studies
- Anglo-Dutch relations
- Early modern literature and history
- Diplomatic history
- Editing
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Runner-up for the Janette Harley Prize of the British Records Association
- 2021 Nominated by the The Young Academy (DJA/KNAW) for the Heineken Prize for History 2022 (€200,000)
- 2021 Nominated by colleagues for the Dan David Prize, one of the largest history prizes in the world ($300,000)
- 2021 - present Elected Member of Academia.Net, nominated by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-
- 2021 Honourable mention at the Dutch Computable Awards (nominated by the public) for a contribution to digital humanities
- 2021 Winner of the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize (€25,000)
- 2021 Winner of the LUCAS Audience Prize for communication of research findings to the general public
- 2020 Awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project FEATHERS (€2M)-
- 2019 Winner of De Nationale Wetenschapsquiz (The Dutch science quiz) with Casper Albers, RUG
- 2019 Winner of the Ammodo Science Award (€300,000), a Dutch prize for fundamental research
- 2018 - present Elected Member Young Academy at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- 2018 - present Elected Member of the Society of Authors
- 2018 Invisible Agents named 'best book on women and gender' by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
- 2018 On the VIVA-400 list of the most inspiring women of the Netherlands
- 2017 - present Elected FRHistS, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London
- 2017 Winner of the World Cultural Council (WCC) Special Recognition Award
- 2016 Winner of an Aspasia, a NWO premium ‘to help more female scientists to progress to associate or full professorships’
- 2009 Winner of Studieprijs Stichting Praemium Erasmianum, national award, for the completion of an extraordinary PhD
