Frederick Buylaert was a 2011 Postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Council, and is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He studied medieval and early modern European history at the universities of Ghent, Leiden and Columbia and obtained a PhD at Ghent University in 2008 with a dissertation on the Flemish nobility in the 14th and 15th centuries. In 2011, he was appointed lecturer in late medieval and early modern history at the VUB. His research focuses on urban and rural elites in the pre-modern Low Countries, with a particular interest in social mobility, historiography and the politics of remembrance.