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Prof. Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek

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Professor of Museum Studies

Contact
2/F, T. T. Tsui Building
Telephone: +852 3917 5508
Email Joost Schokkenbroek

Education
Ph.D. in History, Leiden University (2008)
M.A., in History, Leiden University 

Bio

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Professor Joost C.A. Schokkenbroek joined HKU's Faculty of Arts as Professor Museum Studies in August 2023. After finishing his history study at Leiden University, Schokkenbroek set off on a long international journey spanning several decades, serving both the museum sector and academia. Between 1988 and 2023 he held various curatorial and management positions in four different museums covering three continents - lately as Museum Director of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum. Schokkenbroek was Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – with his inaugural address emphasizing the importance of material culture as sources of information - and Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He has lectured on history, heritage and museology at universities and museums in a.o. the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Russia, Canada, USA, Japan and China. Schokkenbroek has promoted his various fields of interest widely via radio and television, has (co)authored five books, has been (chief) editor of many monographs, and published dozens of peer reviewed articles - often related to (maritime) history, museum matters, and the importance of artifacts.​

Research Interests

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  • Maritime History

  • Heritage and Museology

  • Material Culture

  • Museum Management

Courses

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Selected Publications

Books

  • The transformation of Maritime Professions. Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, c.1850-2000 (London: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2023). 290 pages. [With Karel Davids, eds.].

  • Ships and Maritime Landscapes: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012 (Eelde, 2017). [With Jerzy Gawronski and Andre van Holk], 525 pages.

  • Trying-out. An Anatomy of Dutch whaling and sealing in the nineteenth century, 1815-1885 (Amsterdam: Aksant Publishers, 2008), 366 pages. PhD Dissertation.

 

Articles

  • ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Museum educational strategies for the preservation and promotion of port cities’, Naturalist Freshwater (Journal of the Tamsui Historical Museum, Taiwan), Vol. 16 (November 2024), 1-8. 

  • ‘Economics without ethics? Medical treatment of African slaves aboard Dutch West India Company and private slave ships’, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. 34, nr. 1 (February 2022), 1-24. [With C. van denBroeke et al.,].

  • ‘Quo patet orbis Dei: Dutch Deputies for maritime affairs and their global network in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, International Journal of Maritime History, vol. 31, nr. 1 (Februray 2019), 19-33. [With C.Van den Broeke].

  • ‘Figuring out local and global relations: Cantonese facemakers and their sitters in the 18th century’, Pepijn Brandon, Sabine Go and Wybren Versteegen (eds), Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge, and Nature. Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. C.A. Davids (Brill: Leiden 2018), 170-197.

  • ‘Een zee aan mogelijkheden. Niet-geschreven bronnen en maritieme geschiedenis’. Inaugural address as Professor in Maritime History and Maritime Heritage at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. 26 pages. September 2013.

  • ‘Havens. Plaatsen van herinnering of vinexlocaties van de toekomst?’, in: Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, 45stejrg, nr. ¾ (2013),110-116.

  • ‘Setting Sails on a New Course! Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam after its Renovation’, in: Drassanes. Journal of the Barcelona Maritime Museum, nr. 21 (2013), 152-163.

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