Joost Schokkenbroek
Head of Academic Programs and Curator of Material Culture, Nederlands Scheepvartmuseum Amsterdam (National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam)
October 16, 2008 at 6:30 PM, The Bard Graduate Center,
410 West 58th Street
Joost Schokkenbroek (b.1961) holds a degree in history from Leiden University, in the Netherlands. After his graduation (with a specialization in Maritime History) he worked for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and as Curator and Librarian at the Kendall Whaling Museum in Sharon, Mass. (USA). Schokkenbroek stayed in the United States for almost three years (1988-1990). In 1991 he returned to the Netherlands to start his work as Curator at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Here Schokkenbroek currently holds the position of Head of Academic Programs. He is an Advisory Curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Mass. (USA), and Guest Lecturer the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. (USA). In 2008 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at Leiden University, Trying-out. An Anatomy of Dutch Whaling and Sealing in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1885.
Schokkenbroek has published on topics related to maritime and art history, such as Whaling, Spanish Armada, Trade with the Baltic, and the Dutch East Indies Trade with the Baltic, and the Dutch East Indies. He served as Senior Editor of the prize-wining Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History (four volumes: Oxford/New York 2007). Schokkenbroek also participated in a number of television documentaries (for the BBC - on the Spanish Armada of 1588 and on the History of Europe; and for Chinese National Television on development of Amsterdam as a staple market in a global network), as well as radio projects related to the maritime historical field.
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