Mayke de Jong

Mayke de Jong (13 October 1950, Amsterdam) is a Dutch historian and Professor Emerita of Medieval History at Utrecht University.

She achieved her PhD with honours (cum laude) at the same university in 1986 with a thesis entitled Kind en klooster in de vroege middeleeuwen (Child and monastery in the early Middle Ages.)

In this time she was also a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study.

[2] She has served as Principal investigator for national and international research projects including Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages, Cultural Memory, and the Resources of the Past, 400-1000 and Charlemagne’s Backyard?

In 2015 she received the Humboldt Prize and spent a corresponding semester at the Friedrich Meinecke Institut of the Free University of Berlin.