Biography
Gijsbert Oonk holds the endowed (Jean Monnet) chair: Europe in Globalizing World: Migration, Citizenship and Identity. This chair promotes education and research in the field of Global History, European Studies and National Identity. The Jean Monnet chairs are an initiative of the European Commission to promote education, research and reflection in the field of European integration studies at higher education institutions. Oonk is director of the Sport and Nation research program at ֱ. This interdisciplinary research program focuses on talented athletes with a migrant background within football and the Olympic Games in the context of changing citizenship, multiple citizenship and elite migration. For more information see:
Oonk is also one of the academic advisers of EUROCLIO (European Association of History Educators). The chair will inspire the EUROCLIO program: Engaging History ֱ through memories and legacies of Europe's favorite sports. This program aims to promote the historical thinking of young people through football. The shared history of Europe generates a strong sense of togetherness and responsibility. This feeling can bring about active citizenship, especially among young people who are often less interested in study and history. Another goal of the project is to write a textbook: The Constitution in Utopia? Towards a just world in ten cases. The intended target groups are students, history teachers in secondary education, journalists and policy makers.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- oonk@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Jasmin Seijbel, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Gijsbert Oonk, Joram Verhoeven & Willem Wagenaar (2025) - - doi:
- Gijsbert Oonk (2024) - - Business History, 1-2 - doi:
- Gijsbert Oonk (2023) - -
- Gijsbert Oonk & Alexander Oonk (2023) - - International Journal of the History of Sport, 40 (4), 350-369 - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - -
- Jasmin Seijbel, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - - Soccer and Society, 23 (8), 834–848 - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk & Jorn Schulting (2022) - - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - - National Identities, 24 (3), 197-215 - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk (2021) - - The International Journal of the History of Sport, 37 (11), 1046-1065 - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk (2020) - - Leidschrift. Historisch Tijdschrift (Leiden), 35 (3), 1-22
- Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - -
- Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - - Comparative Migration Studies, 7 (22) - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - - doi: -
- Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - - The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35, 1071-1090 - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk (2018) - - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk & Gijs van Campenhout (2018) - - De Volkskrant -
- Joost Jansen, Gijsbert Oonk & Godfried Engbersen (2018) - - Citizenship Studies, 22 (5), 523-539 - doi: -
- Gijsbert Oonk, Alex van Stipriaan Luiscius & Sandra Manickam (2018) -
- Gijsbert Oonk, Alex van Stipriaan Luiscius & Sandra Manickam (2018) - -
- Gijsbert Oonk (1 February 2024) - Interview met NRC: 01-02-2024: Rel tekende de Afrika Cup voor Marokkko
- Gijsbert Oonk (28 November 2023) - Handballers uit Burundi gevlucht. Trouw 28/9. Interview.
- Gijsbert Oonk (28 October 2023) - Meer dan een rollende bal, interview met Theo Toebosch Elsevier Magazine
- Gijsbert Oonk (26 August 2023) - US women’s World Cup domination has ended. But the nation remains a global talent factory, Interview by By Jessie Yeung, CNN
- Gijsbert Oonk (7 August 2023) - US Womens World Cup
- Gijsbert Oonk (14 December 2022) - De cruciale rol van de diaspora op het WK,
- Gijsbert Oonk (8 December 2022) - How Migration has shaped the World Cup
- Gijsbert Oonk (8 December 2022) - How Migration shaped the World Cup
- Gijsbert Oonk (29 November 2022) - De Coup van Qatar
- Gijsbert Oonk (29 November 2022) - Het verlies van Qatar; interview in NRC 29-11-2022
- Robbert-Jan Adriaansen, Iwona Gusc, Tina van der Vlies, Chiel Rozendaal, Han Entzinger, Jeanine Quene & Gijsbert Oonk (2025) - Award Ceremony and Research Seminar – Han Entzinger Master’s Thesis Award 2024 (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Gijsbert Oonk (2024) - Football Makes History (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Professional - Gijsbert Oonk (2024) - Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre Governance of Migration and Diversity (External organisation) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of network › Academic - Thomas Peeters, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Gijsbert Oonk & Sandra Meeuwsen (2023) - Creation new Minor (BA-3) Sports @ Society, ESHCC with faculties of Economy (main coordinator) and Philosophy (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Sport, Migration, Citizenship, ‘Race’ and National Identity: Towards a new research agenda (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Huizinga Institute (External organisation) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of board › Academic - Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Football Makes History (Participant)
Activity: Other › Academic - Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Huizinga Institute (External organisation) (Chair)
Activity: Membership of board › Academic - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Football Makes HIstory (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - G (Gijsbert) Oonk (2021) - Wie mag ons land representeren. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Robert Schuman Fellowship
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - “Football Makes History: Schools and Football Club Museums Unlocking Local Heritage education”. Projectnummer: 2021-2-NL01-KA220-SCH-000049248 PI 400.000=
- Gijsbert Oonk (2022) - Robert Schuman Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence
- Gijsbert Oonk (2018) - Jean Monnet (ad Personam) Chair on Migration, Citizenship and Identity
- Gijsbert Oonk (2018) - Jean Monnet Chair
- Gijsbert Oonk (2017) - Sport in the city: Anti-semitism and Football in Rotterdam
- Gijsbert Oonk (2015) - Sport and National Identity: Changing Citizenship and the Global Battle for Talent
- Gijsbert Oonk (2014) - Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London.
- Gijsbert Oonk (2014) - Honorary research affiliate of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg.
- Gijsbert Oonk (2011) - Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Fellow in Business History
Huiznga Instituut
- Start date approval
- May 2024
- End date approval
- May 2027
- Place
- NEDERLAND -DIVERS
- Description
- ik ben namens ESHCC lid van deze onderzoeksschool