Jessica den Oudsten (1995) is a PhD candidate at Radboud University. Her PhD project āIntegration and Social Mobility: The Descendants of Early Modern Immigrants in Amsterdam, 1660-1811ā addresses one of the major questions in Dutch migration history: what happened to the descendants of the hundreds of thousands of Germans, Flemings and Scandinavians who migrated to the Dutch Republic in the early modern period? The project zooms in on Amsterdam between 1660 and 1811 and focuses on the processes of integration and social mobility of the descendants of early modern immigrants.
Jessica studied History at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University. Her research master thesis is about the social mobility and integration of the descendants of early modern Norwegian and Danish immigrants in Amsterdam.
At Huygens ING, she previously worked on the āDutch Prize Papersā project, in which she helped develop the Virtual Research Environment (VRE). She was also a researcher within the projects āSailors on Dutch merchant marine, c. 1850-2000ā and āMaritime careersā, where she worked on sailorās biographies.
In addition to her work as PhD candidate, she is a data curator at the Amsterdam City Archives, within the āAlle Amsterdamse Aktenā project. The aim of this project is to digitise and index the rich notarial archive of Amsterdam.
Publications
Jessica den Oudsten en Ramona Negrón, De grootste slavenhandelaren van Amsterdam. Over Jochem Matthijs en Coenraad Smitt (Walburg Pers, 2022).
Jessica den Oudsten, Judith Brouwer and Jelle van Lottum, āVan schoenlapper tot drossaard. De vroegmoderne Amsterdamse migrantenfamilie Wigtendaalā, Gen. Tijdschrift voor familiegeschiedenis 25:4 (2019) 14-19.
Research projects
Publications
- contribution to journal
- contribution to book anthology
- working paper
- book (author)
- conference participation