NWO Veni Grant for Daniel Curtis
Daniel Curtis of the Faculty of Humanities has been awarded a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
Daniel Curtis: ‘Why do some epidemic diseases lead to hatred? An investigation into the impact of economic inequality on the extent of blame, persecution, hatred, and violence after early modern plagues in the Northern Low Countries’
Throughout history, epidemics have provoked hatred and fear of the Black Death, cholera, HIV / AIDS and Ebola. Alternatively epidemic diseases can also be a powerful unifying force within communities. The project of Daniel Curtis explores the reasons for different reactions to epidemics based on the plague in the early modern Low Countries.
NWO TALENT SCHEME (VERNIEUWINGSIMPULS)
In total, NWO awarded 161 Veni grants, of which 28 for Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ researchers. The Veni grants are part of NWO's Talent Scheme (Vernieuwingsimpuls), which offers individual grants to talented, creative researchers. This enables them to conduct the research of their choice. The Talent Scheme has three funding instruments - Veni, Vidi, Vici - tailored to various phases in researchers' scientific careers.