Charlotte Van Riet

Education

• Ma History
• Ma Art History & Archaeology 
• Ba Art History & Archaeology

Short bio

Charlotte obtained an MA in History & Archaeology (2021) and an MA in History (2023) at VUB. In 2023, she successfully completed her MA thesis on the development of the Sint-Niklaas parish in Late-Medieval Ypres, adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Awarded an FWO-fellowship, she will further   develop this in her doctoral research. Supervised by Bart Lambert (VUB, History), Christophe Snoeck (VUB, Bio-Archaeology) & Bram Vannieuwenhuyze (uVa, Cartography), Charlotte will research the earliest city-dwellers in medieval Ypres. Specifically, she will try to find out what these people’s socio-economic background was and where they originated from. This will help understand how and why they created the first urban environments and how they experienced living within them. In order to answer these questions, isotopic research on the skeletal remains of Ypres’ medieval inhabitants will be integrated with information from historical sources and cartographic evidence. Charlotte is part of the research groups SHOC (Social History of Capitalism) and AMGC (Archaeology, Envrionmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry) at VUB.