Thomas Van de Putte is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He works on questions of cultural and collective Holocaust memory, combining perspectives from sociology, linguistics and cultural studies.

Thomas worked previously at Nottingham Trent University, the Université Catholique de Louvain and the University of Trento.

His work is published in the most prominent journals of memory studies, Holocaust studies and narrative studies.

He published his first monograph, Contemporary Auschwitz/Oswiecim, in 2021 with Routledge. Thomas’ second monograph, Outsourcing the European Past, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024.

Research 

• The Holocaust in cultural and collective memory.
• Memory politics.
• Cultural and Interactional Sociology.
• Sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography.

Publications

A list of Thomas Van de Putte's publications can be found on his Pure profile here