Pepijn Brandon is Professor of Global Economic and Social History at the Vrije Universiteit. He also is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History. Brandon’s PhD dissertation, published in 2015 as War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) (Leiden: Brill 2015; paperback edition Chicago: Haymarket Books 2017) won the D.J. Veegens Award of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. He obtained an NWO Rubicon in 2013 and an NWO Veni in 2014. His current NWO Vidi project (awarded 2021) examines the dispossession of land in the Dutch Empire (16th-18th centuries).   

Brandon is the editor of BMGN/The Low Countries Historical Review. He has held fellowships at the Huntington Library, the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University and Brown University (ongoing), and was visiting professor at Harvard University during the 2020 Spring semester. 

(Photographer: Patrick Siemons)