Antoon De Baets#
| Membership Number: | 6806 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.concernedhistorians.org/about |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5734-8193 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Emeritus professor of history, ethics and human rights
- 1989 - 2022 University of Groningen History Department: lecturer, senior lecturer, professor
- 1979 - 1989 University of Ghent Third World Department: assistant professor
Fields of Scholarship
- Attacks on history
- History of history
- Abuses of history
- Censorship of history
- Theory of history
- History and human rights
- Ethics of historians
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Best essay prize of the Royal Netherlands Historical Society for the essay “Wisdom in Hindsight as a Compass” (in Dutch) [English version, “The Historian-King"]
- 1989 History prize of the province of East-Flanders, Belgium
