Michèle Corthals is a PhD student at the History Department of the University of Antwerp. She studied Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2009) and History at the University of Antwerp (2015). Since October 2018, she has been working on her PhD project "The Gender of Resistance. Discourses and practices of female resistance in Belgium during the Second World War". She is a member of Power in History (Centre for Political History).