Mayke de Jong
Dutch historian
Mayke de Jong (13 October 1950, Amsterdam) is a Dutch historian and Professor Emerita of Medieval History at Utrecht University. Her research focuses on the political and religious history of the early Middle Ages.
Career
De Jong received her MA degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1977. She achieved her PhD with honours (cum laude) at the same university in 1986 with a thesis entitled Kind en klooster in de vroege middeleeuwen (Child and monastery in the early Middle Ages.)
During this time, she worked as a lecturer in Medieval History at the Catholic University of Nijmegen and as a lecturer in Medieval History and Cultural Anthropology at the School for Arts and Literature in The Hague.
She was appointed Professor in Medieval History at Utrecht University in 1987, one year after receiving her doctorate. She continued in this role until her retirement in 2016. In this time she was also a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.
She has served as Principal investigator for national and international research projects including Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages, Cultural Memory, and the Resources of the Past, 400-1000 and Charlemagne’s Backyard? Rural society in the Netherlands in the Carolingian Age. An archaeological perspective.
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