Dr. Remco Ensel
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Biography
As a senior researcher, Remco Ensel conducts research into the history of anti-Semitism and Holocaust remembrance. Between 2010 and 2016, he was affiliated with NIOD as a researcher in the NWO project Contemporary Anti-Semitism, which resulted in the book Haatspraak. Antisemitisme - een 21-eeuwse geschiedenis van antisemitisme (2014) (Hate Speech. Antisemitism - a 21st-century history of antisemitism) and an edited volume with Evelien Gans, The Holocaust, Israel and ‘The Jew’. Histories of Antisemitism in Dutch Postwar Society (2017).
Ensel is also interested in the history of colonial science. In the future, a book will be published on economics as a science in colonial Indonesia. This book is the result of a research project on the history of science in the shadow of war and colonialism, which he carried out between 2022 and 2024 on behalf of the NIOD.
Remco Ensel studied cultural anthropology and history in Amsterdam. He conducted research based on anthropological fieldwork, interviews and archival research. As a cultural historian, he focuses on the history of ideas, science and culture: photography, film, theatre, science and everyday knowledge. In 2022, Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage was published. Performance, Memory, Affect (2022), in which Ensel focuses on the dramatisation of Anne Frank's diary as a key moment in the post-war memory of the Holocaust, which can also serve as an example of the role that theatre can play in dealing with and processing experiences of mass violence.
Remco Ensel is also an associate professor of cultural history at Radboud University in Nijmegen.