Marie-Gabrielle is a PhD Student in History at Ghent University, specializing in the theory of history, twentieth-century historiography, and state sponsorships of history. For her dissertation, she focuses on the epistemic aspects of EU- and Council of Europe sponsorship of history, heritage, and memory projects after 1954.

Marie-Gabrielle obtained an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago (Fulbright Grantee and Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow) in 2018, an MA in History at the University of Ghent in 2017, and a BA in History at the University of Leuven in 2016. She also participated in a four-month Erasmus exchange at the University of Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies (2015-2016).