Recent Publications

Books

Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire. Co-edited with Berny Sèbe. London: Routledge, 2020.


The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock: Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2019.

Reviews

Reviews: De Standaard (3 May 2019); The Dutch Review of Books (2019); H-France 19 (2019); African
Research and Documentation 136 (2019); Contemporanea 42 (2020); Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial
Studies 11 (2020); BMGN—Low Countries Historical Review 135 (2020); French Studies 74, no. 2 (2020);
Journal of Design History (2020); H-Soz-Kult (2020); Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste geschiedenis (2020);
American Historical Review (2020); English Historical Review (2021); African Studies Review (2024).


European Overseas Empire, 1879-1999: A Short History. Medford, MA: Wiley, 2018.

Reviews

Reviews: H-Empire (Jan. 2021).


Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 378 pp. Paperback, 2015.

Reviews

Reviews: The Wall Street Journal (March 12, 2012); Revue belge de Philologie et d’Histoire/Belgisch
Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis (2012); Choice (Sept. 2012); H-Soz-u-Kult (Dec. 2012);
Contemporary French Civilization 38, no. 1 (2013); H-Empire (Jan. 2013); Spectrum: Journal of Global
Studies 5, no. 1 (2013); H-France 13 (April 2013); American Historical Review (2013); Tijdschrift voor
Geschiedenis 126, no. 4 (2013); African Studies Quarterly 13, no. 3 (Winter 2013); Journal of Belgian
History 43, no 4 (2013); The Historian 75, no. 3 (2013); Journal of Retracing Africa 3, no. 1 (2016).


European Empires and the People: Popular Responses to Imperialism in France, Britain,
Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. Co-authored with John M. MacKenzie
(editor), Giuseppe Finaldi, Bernhard Gissibl, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Berny Sèbe.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 233 pp.

Reviews

Reviews: Choice 49, no. 3 (Nov. 2011); Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, no. 5 (Dec.
2011): 833-845; Journal of Contemporary European Studies 20, no. 2 (2012): 249-250; Tijdschrift voor
Geschiedenis 2 (Aug. 2012): 247-248; English Historical Review 128, no. 530 (Feb. 2013): 195-197.

Published Articles & Book Chapters

“The Belgian Colonial Empire,” in The Routledge History of the First World War, ed. Paul Bartrop. Routledge, 2024.

“Remembering Belgium’s Colonial Past in the Congo.” In Saloul, I., Baillie, B. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_112-1.

“Colonial Propaganda: The Awakening of a Belgian Colonial Consciousness?” in Colonial Congo: A History in Questions. Eds. Idesbald Goddeeris, Amandine Lauro, and Guy Vanthemsche. Brepols, 2024.

« La mémoire coloniale à Mons. » In Identités Décoloniales : de l’Afrique à Mons. Mons, 2023.


Selected Reviews

Review of Martin Thomas, The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization (Princeton University Press, 2023). Journal of Development Studies, 2024.

Review of Pierre-Philippe Fraiture’s Unfinished Histories: Empire and Postcolonial Resonance in Central Africa and Belgium (Leuven University Press, 2022).  French Studies, 2023.

Review of Vincent Viaene, Bram Cleys, and Jan De Maeyer (eds.), Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 (Leuven University Press, 2020). TSEG-The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 2021.

Review of The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium by M. Van Ginderachter (Stanford University Press, 2019). Journal of Social History, 2021.