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Prof. dr. Willemijn Ruberg is a Full Professor of Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University since 2025 and Head of the Cultural History group. She is affiliated with the Humanities Research Institute for History and Art History and serves on the editorial board of the Journal for the History of Knowledge. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, law, forensic practices, and body history in modern Europe.
- Key Projects: Principal investigator for the ERC-funded FORCe project (2018-2024) on forensic practices in Europe (1930-2000).
- Leadership: Founded the Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body with Elwin Hofman.
Research Interests include:
- Cultural History of Bodily Integrity Rights (19th-21st Century)
- Gender and Forensic Expertise
- History of Medical Jurisprudence
- Emotions in Legal Contexts
- Material Turn in Humanities
Recent Publications span edited volumes and articles on forensic cultures, bodily integrity, and gender in legal history. She has contributed to Law and History Review, Gender and History, and History of Psychiatry.
Scientific Awards:
- ERC Consolidator Grant (2018)
- Praemium Erasmianum (2025) as co-promotor
- Aspasia Grants (2014, 2015)
- DAAD Scholarship (2003)
Supervision includes PhD students on topics ranging from queer bar heritage to forensic psychiatry and Roman borderlands. She serves on doctoral committees at Ghent and KU Leuven.
Additional Roles: Coordinating editor for the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (2012-2016), current board member of Huizinga Institute.
