Annemieke Romein studied History of Society (Maatschappijgeschiedenis) in Rotterdam (BA and MA), with additional minors in Medievalism and Didactics (Leiden University). She consequently obtained both a Master’s in teaching History and Civics and a Master’s in teaching Social Sciences (both from ICLON, Leiden University). After teaching for 4 years at secondary schools, she returned to academia in the summer of 2011. She consequently obtained her PhD at Erasmus University in 2016 on a comparative study of the political terminology of fatherland, patria and patriot in Hessen-Kassel, Gulik and Bretagne.
After a brief period of teaching at Universities for Applied Sciences, she received an NWO Rubicon grant (2017) with which she worked in Ghent from September 2017 to February 2020 on a project on political-institutional / legal history, a comparison between the regions of Flanders and Holland between 1576-1702.
She was also the project leader of the Digital Humanities “Entangled Histories” project at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague; here she was a Researcher-in-Residence from May to October 2019.
From 2020 until September 2024 she was working at Huygens ING where she continued her research into early modern provincial regulations with her NWO Veni project ‘A Game of Thrones?’. This was a comparison between Holland, Guelders and Bern in the period 1576-1702. Several publications on Digital Humanities and techniques have resulted from this project.
From Sept. 2023 until Nov. 2024 Annemieke completed an additional study as specialist in giftedness (ECHA – European Council for High Ability) at the University of Münster (in German). She graduated cum laude on the topic of gifted students at universities and their experiences with the educational academic system.
As of October 2024, Annemieke is a postdoc in the HAICu-project, at the UTwente, in Enschede. She works on the workpackage AI with Humans in the Loop; while focussing on the Provincial State Archive (1528/1578-1795) to open this for the wider audience.
Her research interests can be found at the intersection of political-institutional and legal history and digital history/ digital humanities techniques. In the academic year 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 she has been teaching Digital Humanities and Social Analytics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a frequent guest lecturer and workshop/trainer with regard to Handwritten Text Recognition (esp. with regard to Transkribus).
In 2022 she founded the Open Access Journal for Digital Legal History together with Dirk Heirbaut and Florenz Volkaert.
Since May 2023, Annemieke Romein represents the members (and users) of the READ-COOP SCE in the Board of Directors of the READ-COOP. She fulfills the role of honorary Community Director.
A list of publications can be found here