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Liesbeth van de Grift is Professor of International History and the Environment. She specializes in the history of political representation through the lens of rural and environmental governance in the twentieth century. A guiding question in her research is how the rise of 'nature' and 'the environment' on the political agenda has changed ideas and practices of democracy and interest representation. Her   studies the role of (public) interest groups and bottom-up mobilisation in the history of European governance. Topics that she has worked on before include practices of land reclamation and rural resettlement in interwar Europe and the post-1945 political transitions in Soviet-occupied Europe.

Van de Grift is director of the Research Institute History and Art History. At Utrecht University, she serves as programme board member of the strategic theme Pathways to Sustainability. She is also the initiator of the Network for Environmental Humanities. Liesbeth van de Grift teaches in the BA programs History and International Relations, the MA History of International Relations, and the Research Master History.

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