Marion Pluskota
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. M. Pluskota
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 8568
- m.pluskota@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0868-0640
Marion Pluskota is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.
Office Hours
Monday 14.00-15.00.
Fields of interest
My main fields of interest are crime, gender and urban history from the 18th- to the early 20th-century in Europe and in the colonies. I am particularly interested in gender relations in crime and in the role of gender in different judicial systems. In addition, I focus on the use of different (urban) spaces for criminal purposes.
Curriculum vitae
I am a University Lecturer in Social History at Leiden University since 2017, with expertise on crime and gender history.
I completed my PhD in 2012 at the University of Leicester, UK which was then published as Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports (2015). I have published extensively on the history of prostitution and continue to be interested in this topic in a long-term perspective.
In 2012, I moved to Leiden to become a post-doc and co-director of the NWO-project Crime and Gender, 1600-1900 led by Prof. Manon van der Heijden. I have been working on crime and gender relations in criminality in the nineteenth century, in Bologna, Amsterdam and Le Havre: I showed that the gender bias noticed in the UK judicial system was not as strong on the continent and that the type of crimes committed was linked to the development of the welfare state. My next book Crime and Gender in nineteenth-century Europe will be published in 2019.
I am currently co-directing the project Dangerous Cities, Mapping Crime in 19th-century Amsterdam and Leiden, which aims at mapping crimes in the past to highlight possible correlations between spatial features and crime opportunities. This project makes use of GIS, linking criminal records with Leiden and Amsterdam cadasters.
My new research project focuses on gender relations in transnational crimes late 19th – early 20th century, with a specific focus on the Caribbean region.
Teaching activities
My teaching duties as a University lecturer cover a wide range of courses, from first-year economic and social history seminars to Master research seminar on the ‘Criminal Migrant’. I received my BKO (university teaching qualification in The Netherlands) in 2018.
Key publications
Marion Pluskota; Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Journal of Social History, Volume 51, Issue 4, 1 June 2018, Pages 717–735, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx156
Pluskota M. (2015), Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports Perspectives in Economic and Social History. Abingdon: Routledge.
Pluskota M. (2017), “Prostitution and Labour Relations”. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van, Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.) Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.book chapter
Pluskota M. (2017), “Prostitution in Amsterdam, 1600-2000”. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van, Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.) Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
- Pluskota M. (2021), Review of: Caslin S. & Laite J. (2020) Wolfenden's Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain. Genders and Sexualities in History, Journal of British Studies 60: 992-994.
- Singh S.B. & Pluskota M. (2020), Homo sapiens and Criminality, The Oriental Anthropologist .
- Pluskota M. (2020), Freedom of movement, access to the urban centres, and abolition of slavery in the French Caribbean, International Review of Social History 65(S28): 93-115.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der, Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. (2020), Introduction: women and crime in history. In: Heijden M.P.C. van der, Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. (Eds.) Women's criminality in Europe, 1600-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-25.
- Pluskota M. (2020), Governing Sexuality: Regulating Prostitution in Early Modern Europe. In: Gunn S. & Hulmes T. (Eds.) New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500.: Routledge .
- Heijden M.P.C. van der, Pluskota M. & Muurling S.T.D. (Eds.) (2020), Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der & Pluskota M. (2018), Introduction to crime and gender in history, Journal of Social History 51(4): 661-671.
- Pluskota M. (2018), Petty Criminality, Gender Bias, and Judicial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Journal of Social History 51(4): 717-735.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der & Pluskota M. (2018), Special section: Crime and Gender Member of editorial staff 51(4).
- Pluskota M. (2017), Prostitution and Labour Relations. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van, Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.) Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.
- Muurling S.T.D. & Pluskota M. (2017), The gendered geography of violence in Bologna, 17-19th centuries. In: Simonton D. (Ed.) Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience. Abington: Routledge. 153-164.
- Pluskota M. (2017), Prostitution in Amsterdam, 1600-2000. In: Rodriguez Garcia M., Nederveen Meerkerk E. van, Heerma van Voss L. (Eds.) Selling Sex in the Cities. Leiden: Brill.
- Pluskota M. (2017), Prostitution in The Hague, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. In: Chaumont J.M., Rodriguez Garcia M., Servais P. (Eds.) Trafficking in Women (1924-1926). Geneva: United Nations.
- Pluskota M. (2016), Eighteenth-century Prostitutes in Bristol. In: Dresser M. (Ed.) Women and the City: Bristol c.1400-2000. Bristol: Redcliffe Press.
- Pluskota M. (2016), Review of: Julie Peakman, Peg Plunkett Memoirs of a Whore (London, 2015) in Low Countries, Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History 13(2).
- Pluskota M. (2015), Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports Perspectives in Economic and Social History. Abingdon: Routledge.
- Pluskota M. (2015), "Criminal families" and the Court: Co-offending in Amsterdam, 1897-1902, History of the Family 20(2): 270-290.
- Heijden M.P.C. van der & Pluskota M. (2015), Leniency versus Toughening? The Prosecution of Male and Female Violence in 19th Century Holland, Journal of Social History 49(1): 149-167.
- Pluskota M. (2015), Review of: Kushner N. (2013) Erotic Exchanges, The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Gender and History 27(1): 223.
- Pluskota M. (2015), Urban Governance and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Port Cities in France and England. In: Kenny N., Madgin R. (Eds.) Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History..
- Pluskota M. (2014), Genesis of a red-light district: prostitution in Nantes, 1750-1815, Urban history 41(1): 22-41.
- Pluskota M. (2014), Research in Urban History: Recent Theses on Gender and the City, Urban history 41(3): 537-546.
- Pluskota M. (2013), Review of Julia Laite, 'Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885–1960' (Basingstoke, 2012) in International Review of Social History, 58, 3 (December, 2013). Review of: Laite J. (2012) Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens. Commercial Sex in London, 1885–1960., Gender and Sexuality in History, International Review of Social History 58(3): 526-28.
- Pluskota Marion (2013), ‘Bagnard’, ‘Galérien’ and ‘Forcat'. In: Lucien Faggion, Christophe Regina (Eds.) Dictionnaire de la Méchanceté. Paris. 34-36 and passim.
- Schmidt A. & Pluskota M. (2013), Gevaarlijke vrouwen, gewelddadige mannen? Een review van het historisch onderzoek naar criminaliteit en gender in Europese steden, 1600–1800, Stadsgeschiedenis 8(1): 60-77.
- Pluskota M. (2012), Prostitution and Police in a Port City during the Revolution, Women's History Magazine 68: 7-12.
- Pluskota M. (2012), Review of J. Walkowitz, Nights Out, Life in Cosmopolitan London (New York, 2012) Review of: J. Walkowitz (2012) Nights Out, Life in Cosmopolitan London, Urban history 39(4): 687-88.
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