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Anaïs Maes

Anaïs Maes (1984) obtained a Master in History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2005, and she finished her secondary teacher training in 2007. As of 2007, she is preparing a Ph.D. on freemasonry and the construction of national identities in Belgium in the 19th and early 20th centuries. She is a member of the research group FREE.

 
 
Core publications
  • Anaïs Maes, 'Charles Magnette, Belgian Grand Master in 1914: Cosmopolitan or Nationalist Icon?', Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 1 (2010) 94-119.
  • Anaïs Maes, The birth of the Belgian nation-state: masonic 'national' discourses', paper presented at the Second International Conference on the History of Freemasonry, Edinburgh, May 2009.
  • Anaïs Maes, La franc-maçonnerie belge en exil pendant la Première Guerre mondiale: rencontre exceptionnelle ou repli identitaire?, paper presented at the XII Symposium Internacional de Historia de la Masoneria Española. La Masoneria Española Represion y Exilios, Almeria, October 2009.
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