Maartje Abbenhuis is a historian of war, peace, neutrality and international ideas, particularly in the period 1815 - 1918. She is the author of several books and edited collections, including: The Art of Staying Neutral: The Netherlands in the First World War, 1914 - 1918 (2006); An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics 1815 - 1914 (2014, Choice Outstanding Academic Title); The Hague Conferences in International Politics 1898-1915 (2018); (with Gordon Morrell) The First Age of Industrial Globalisation: An International History 1815-1918 (2019);  (with Prof. Ismee Tames) Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformation of the First World War (2021, which won the Norman Tomlinson Prize). Her latest book -The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History was published in 2026 by Cambridge University Press. She is the recipient of two Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grants: one in 2004 for work on the borderlands of the Netherlands in the First World War and the other in 2014 for her Hague conferences project. In 2018, she spent a semester as a Residential Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in Amsterdam.