About me
Hi, my name is Lieuwe.
First and foremost I am a craftsman. With my company, Livius Crafts, I give courses in traditional crafts such as spoon carving and leatherworking. I post pictures of the things I make and how I make them to Instagram pretty often. Trained as a historian, I also like to do nerdy things to historical sources. I kept a blog about the significance of analog and digital storage media for historians, titled Historage. For the past eight years I have worked as a teacher in secondary schools. I have tought rhetorics, philosophy and leadership classes to 12-18 year olds at the Praedinius Gymnasium, Dutch at the Kamerlingh Onnes College and History at the H.N. Werkman College. I also like to take pictures, usually of nature or architecture. You can check those out on my Flickr photostream. If you’d like to speak to me about anything I do, feel free to shoot me a message. You can also connect with me on LinkedIn.
This site is currently still under construction. But feel free to look around!
Resume
Employment
Owner2015 – present
Livius Crafts
Teacher2017 – 2018
H.N. Werkman Stadslyceum
I tought History here
Teacher2016 – 2017
Kamerlingh Onnes College
I tought Dutch as a first language to 12-14 year olds
Teacher2011 – 2017
Praedinius Gymnasium
I tought several courses, including Sloyd, Rhetoric and Philosophy at this secondary school. I also tought a leadership course to 16-18 year-olds. In the past I worked as a substitute teacher in several classes.
Student AssistantFebruary 2015 – September 2015
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Research AssistantFebruary 2014- December 2014
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Research AssistantJanuary 2014- Juli 2014
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Education
Research Master Modern History and International Relations2013 – 2015
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Thesis title: “Slavery Dynasty: Networks of Kinship around Transatlantic Slavery and Slave Trade in the Province of Groningen (1622-1863)”
Grade Point Average: 8 (equivalent to an American GPA of 4, or an “A”. Equivalent to “First” in the UK)
BA History2010-1013
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
BA Arts, Culture and Media2008-2010
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Passed the Propaedeutical exam, then switched to History
VWO2008-2010
Praedinius Gymnasium
C&M with Latin and philosophy. I was a member of the student board and the school council (medezeggenschapsraad), and very active in a school band as a guitarist and composer.
Languages
Dutch
English
German
French
Latin
Research and Visualisation
ATLAS.ti
NVivo
Pajek
Puck 2.0
Gephi
Zotero
Design, Video and Photography
Lightroom
Premiere Pro
Photoshop
Illustrator
Development Skills
HTML5
CSS3
WordPress
Portfolio
Contact
Groningen, where’s that?