Anne Gerritsen (born 1967) is professor of history at the

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. Between 2013 and 2018 she held the

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Chair in the study of Asia-Europe Exchange, with special attention to art, material culture and human dynamics at Leiden University.

Biography

Gerritsen has a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from

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in 2001. Gerritsen was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2020. She is also a Fellow of the

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and the

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. She is a member of

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Select publications

*Cleetus, B. and Gerritsen, A. (eds) 2023. ''Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World: Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000''. Bloomsbury. *Gerritsen, A. "Reading Late-Imperial Chinese Merchant Handbooks in Global and Micro-History", ''Journal of Early Modern History'' 27 (1-2), 132–155. *Gerritsen, A. and Grasskamp, A. (eds) 2022. ''Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels As Transcultural Enclosures''. *Gerritsen, A. 2022. "The Tiger's Teeth: Local Gazetteers as Sources for Images Related to the Performance of Ritual", ''Journal of the European Association of Chinese Studies'' 3.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gerrtisen, Anne Living people Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Higher Education Academy 1967 births Academics of the University of Warwick Harvard University alumni