Wouter Egelmeers is editor of the BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review. For this journal, he carries out general editorial tasks and is responsible for editing book reviews. Additionally, he is managing editor of the Journal for the History of Knowledge.
He studied History at Radboud University in Nijmegen and at Humboldt Universität and Freie Universität in Berlin. He completed his research master’s in 2016 with a thesis on the role of images of people of colour in the visual argumentation of the influential German sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935).
After graduating, he worked at KU Leuven as an assistant researcher in a project on international exchange in nineteenth-century scientific journals in Belgium and the Netherlands. He then started as a PhD researcher in the interdisciplinary EOS project B-Magic, which investigated for the first time the role of the magic lantern as a visual mass medium. He received his PhD from KU Leuven in 2023 with a dissertation on the impact of this forgotten medium, the first precursor to PowerPoint, on Belgian education between 1880 and 1940.