Judith Brouwer
Dr.

Judith Brouwer

Research Data Manager
Department Data & Collections
Specialisation Specialisation Early Modern History; Historical Literary Studies
Contact judith.brouwer@huygens.knaw.nl
+31 (0)20-2246874

Biography

Judith studied Dutch Dutch Language and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in Historical Literature. She gained her doctorate at the University of Groningen in 2013 with a dissertation about never-delivered post from the “Disaster Year” of 1672. A commercial edition was published in 2014, Levenstekens. Gekaapte brieven uit het Rampjaar 1672 [Signs of Life. Captured letters from the Disaster Year of 1672” ].

In addition to her work for Data and Collections, Judith is also an editorial board member editor of Amstelodamum and a board member of the Flemish-Dutch Society for New History.

(Research)projects

Working within Data and Collections, Judith serves as research data manager for the collections of the Meertens Institute. She provides hands-on research support, advises on data management plans, helps with cleaning, systematising and storing datasets and research data, as well as offering other practical support. Her duties also include advising on open (FAIR) data, usage agreements and privacy legislation of research data. Judith is also the leader of the Data and Heritage Collections Team, one of the three sub-teams within Data and Collections. Finally, she works as a data curator on the ECARTICO database, which focuses on the cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries.