Prof. Dr. Jan De Maeyer

• University

  

  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Naamsestraat 22
  B 3000 – Leuven
  Belgium
  
  Jan De Maeyer
  Kapucijnenvoer 46
  B 3000 – Leuven
  Belgium

• Other activities
  • Member of the Steering Committee for the project,‘The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Church, State and Society in Northern Europe, c.1780-c.1920’.’ (Free University of Amsterdam and the University of Wales, 2004-2014)

  • Successively board member, Vice-Chair and, since 2009-2018, Chair of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome (as KU Leuven representative)

  • Member of the Board of Directors of Academia Belgica in Rome (2009- >)

  • Chairman of the Advisory Commission for Cultural Heritage of the Flemish Community (2017-2023)

  • Board of Editor’s of Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique

  • Academic supervisor of the Archives of the University of Leuven (2018 - >)
• Research focus in the field of religious and church history
  • History of the Church and religion from 1750
  • History of ideologies including ultramontanism, corporatism, social realities;
  • History of the labour movement and working-class culture;
  • The aristocracy and haute bourgeoisie
  • The relationship of religion and art from c. 1750 (architecture, visual and applied arts)
• Selected publications in the field of religious and church history
  • Suenens K. 'Too robust to be saint'. Female congregation founders in 19th-century Belgium: double-voiced agency, religious entrepreneurship and gender tension.Supervisor: De Maeyer, J.. 30 Oct 2018 (PhD Thesis)
  • Missionary Places, 1850-1950. Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities. Editors: Cleys, Bram, De Maeyer, Jan, De Meulder, Bruno, Howard, Allen. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2019 (Book Chapter)
  • Thekkemuriyil Antony M. Constructing Counter-culture through Theology of Liberation: Sebastian Kappen SJ (1924-93)Supervisor: Goddeeris, Idesbald. 09 Feb 2018 (PhD Thesis)