Patricia Van den Eeckhout
Department of Political Science (POLI)
Patricia Van den Eeckhout has a Ph.D. in History (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1980). She is a part-time Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where she teaches 'Contemporary economic history', 'The history of daily life', 'Political rhetoric' and 'Information retrieval in the social and behavioural sciences'. She published reference books on information retrieval in the social sciences and the humanities, and on Belgian archives and sources of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research focusses on supervision and authority in 19th-century European industry, the language of labor in the 19th century, customs and contracts in 19th-century labor relations, the history of social housing policy, the history of publicity in the 19th century, the history of consumption and in particular of food consumption, the rhetoric of social statistics, the history of daily life, and the historiography of social history. She was a member of the editorial board of various historical reviews. As a member of FOST, she is co-supervisor of the Ph.D. thesis of Nelleke Teughels.