Princeton fellowship for LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema
Jacqueline Hylkema, a cultural historian at LUC, will be appointed at Princeton University from January to June 2026. There, she will conduct research on the concept of truth in Dutch political forgeries from the 17th century.
Jacqueline Hylkema has been awarded the Shelby Cullom Davis Fellowship at Princeton University’s Department of History. Her research in Princeton, ‘Faking Truth and Truthfulness in the Dutch Republic, 1608-1688’, builds on the research project ‘Mapping the False Republic (1550–1800)’, which she has been carrying out since November 2022 at the Special Collections of Leiden University Libraries and which has been made possible thanks to the Leids Universiteits Fonds.
Hylkema is very much looking forward to her time at the prestigious university in the United States. Last September, she visited Princeton for a seminar and engaged in discussions with other historians.
'The intellectual exchange of ideas, the interaction and the curiosity were so stimulating. The place is buzzing with energy. I think it’s wonderful that I get to spend half a year in that environment thinking, reading, talking and writing. I also have access to the most fantastic sources in the field of political, intellectual and social history of the early modern period in Princeton’s Firestone Library.'
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The research in Princeton builds on the research project ‘De Valse Republiek in Kaart (1550-1800)’.