Wouter Kock holds a BA (Utrecht University) in history and a research MA (cum laude) in Religious Studies (Utrecht University and Bergen University). During his studies, he has developed an interest in the ways people engage with, think about, and experience the past. He wrote his MA thesis about the heritagization of Catholic monasteries for which he received several awards. Since 2022, he works as a PhD researcher at Radboud University, at the faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies. There, he conducts historical and ethnographic research on the simultaneous heritagization and re-religionization of Catholic monasteries, with support of the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities.