Hi there, my name is Jeroen Moes and you've just found my personal website. Here, I try to maintain a more or less coherent collection of personal and professional information about, ehm... Me!
I have my own personal blog in Dutch, which I mainly use to keep in touch with friends and family when I am abroad. I do plan to start an English blog soon. Untill that time, please use Google Translate or similar to understand what the *#*#* I'm talking about!
Besides posting stuff on my blog, I enjoy making websites. Not enough to make it my full-time activity though... I have, however, created a number of websites for friends and organisations I am/was involved in. Here are a few of them:
>>The 'Mediated Memories' blog that I created and maintain with Inge Melchior
>>MasterThesis.eu, where I publish theses and academic (draft) articles by myself and others. At the moment, there are only four documents available (among which my own thesis).
>> The Scouting LBP website (for a local scouting group in Maastricht, where I used to be a member)
>> This website! (JeroenMoes.eu/.nl/.com all link here)
>> Some domains I use as my 'playground': (Stories.by, LostFor.Info, and Grata.nl
>> Some other links that may be interesting to share with you...
I'm a researcher in the social and political sciences. At the moment, I'm working at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (well, strictly speaking it is located in San Domenico di Fiesole). There, I'm working on a PhD research project which has the provisional title: "Imagining Europe: Conceptualizations of Europe in a cross-national comparison across social groups and networks". You can download the research plan (April 2010) here (pdf), and here is an image that displays the general strategy of the project.
The central assumption of this project is that 'Europe' can mean something completely different to various individuals not only in different contexts and circumstances, but also according to individual characteristics and experiences. To give some examples: for some people, in certain contexts, 'Europe' may represent an image of modernity. For others in other contexts, it is an expression of cosmopolitan ideals. For others still, it symbolizes all that is wrong with globalisation. Additionally, in some cases, 'Europe' may feel practically synonymous with the EU while in other instances these may be perceived to be two radically different concepts.
>> read more about my research
Photography has become a big hobby of mine. A while ago, I bought my very first digital SLR camera (a Nikon D90), and I'm the proud owner of no less than two modest lenses (one zoom lens, one prime). In my limited free time, I like to go out and shoot some pictures.
Of course, I have an online photo album, though it has been having some functionality issues lately. You can also take a look at my Flickr account.
I live alternately in Florence (Italy), Tartu (Estonia), and in the Netherlands (either Amsterdam or Maastricht). Most of the time I can be quite hard to track physically, but I do check my e-mail very regularly at either Jeroen.Moes@eui.eu (my work address) or at JeroenM@gmail.com (my personal address).
Alternatively, you can call me at +31646250487 (Dutch), or contact me through Skype:
The easiest way to reach me, though, is to use the contact form after the click.
