Prof. Dr. Eveline G. Bouwers

* Hilversum (The Netherlands). Eveline Bouwers studied History, Art History and Political Science at Utrecht, Leuven and Amsterdam (2000–2005). In 2009, she obtained a doctorate from the European University Institute in Florence with a comparative analysis of remembrance cultures in Europe between 1790 and 1840. This was followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship at Bielefeld University (2009-2012) as well as a stints as visiting scholar at the universities of York (2007) and Harvard (2011) and affiliated scholar at KADOC Leuven (since 2013). Since 2013, Eveline Bouwers has been senior fellow at IEG as well as lecturer at Bielefeld University and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. From 2013 to 2019 she was moreover head of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Battles over Belief: Religion and Violence in Catholic Europe, 1848-1914”, financed by the German Research Council. She was included in AcademiaNet in 2015. In January 2025, she was habilitated at Universität Bielefeld.

Since October 2025, Professor for European Regional History at Duisburg-Essen University.

• Modern European History
• Comparative and transnational history
• Cultural and social history (especially memory studies, visual history, history of violence and protest, religious history)

• (ed.), Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World (London: Routledge, 2023). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003127857
• (ed. mit David Nash), Demystifying the Sacred. Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022). Open Access
• (ed.), Glaubenskämpfe: Katholiken und Gewalt im 19. Jahrhundert (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019). Open Access https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666101588
• Das Nationaldenkmal als Projektionsfläche: Eine großdeutsche Geschichtsidee von der Romantik bis zur Wiedervereinigung, Historische Zeitschrift 304:2 (2017). 332-369.
• Public Pantheons in Revolutionary Europe. Comparing Cultures of Remembrance, c. 1790-1840 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360983