Dr. Anne Heyer

Anne is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for History at Leiden University in the Netherlands and a founding member of d|part. Anne’s research focuses on the history of political participation and mass politics in Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Britain and Spain), which she approaches from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective. At d|part, Anne was involved in several research and knowledge dissemination projects, among others in the publications on European populist parties and on young people’s political attitudes ahead of the Scottish independence referendum.

Anne obtained her doctoral degree at Leiden University, Netherlands, for her thesis on the emergence of the first democratic parties as political organisations, connecting social science approaches with historical source analysis. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Horizon 2020-funded research project TRANSPOP at the Juan March Institute for Social Sciences at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, to analyse the development and adaption of popular politics in Europe. Anne holds an MA from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from universities in Bremen, Germany, and Tartu, Estonia.