Curriculum Vitae   Maartje Janse

Personal details

Name                                          Maartje J. Janse
Date and place of birth             27-02-1976, Göttingen (Germany)
Nationality                                 Dutch
Email                                          m.j.janse @ let.leidenuniv.nl

Education
          
2001-2004                                  Postgraduate Education Programme 19th and 20th c. History (PONTEG)
2001-2003                                  Training Programme Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities
2002                                           Research Course Cultural History, Dutch Institute, Rome
2000                                           Postgraduate teacher-education history, University of Utrecht
1994-1999                                  Cultural History (cum laude), University of Utrecht
1988-1994                                  Gymnasium, Dr. F.H. de Bruijne Lyceum, Utrecht
                   
Employment     
         
2000                                            Teaching history at Dr. F.H. de Bruijne Lyceum, Utrecht
2001-2006                                   PhD at History Department, University of Groningen, as a member of the Research group
                                                    Parliamentary and Partisan Culture. Political Culture and View of Politics in the Netherlands and (Western) Europe,
                                                    19th and 20th Centuries, which was awarded a grant from the
                                                    "Personal Impulse for  Research Groups with New Ideas for Excellent Research" (PIONIER-project).
2006-                                           Post doc researcher at History department, University of Leiden. Awarded a 3-year fellowship to work on my personal
                                                    research project Associational Mania: The Struggle for Recognition and the Transformation of Politics 1820-1890.

Doctorate                           University of Groningen, Supervisor Prof. Henk te Velde
                                                    Title: De afschaffers. Publieke opinie, organisatie en politiek in Nederland 1840-1880
                                                    [The Abolitionists. Public opinion, Organisation and Politics in the Netherlands 1840-1880].

Academic activities (selection)   

1995-1996                                    Executive Board Progressief Studentenoverleg (Student political organization);
2001-                                            Initiator and Chair of the Werkgroep Verenigingsgeschiedenis, Huizinga Instituut;
2002-                                            Guest lectures on nineteenth-century reform movements and politics, Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Amsterdam;
2003                                             Lecturing Bachelor Course 'The gap between public and politics in the Netherlands, 19th and 20th centuries';
2003-2004                                    Organizing Committee of Conference Political Transfer. The use of foreign examples in politics ca. 1789-1960;
2004-2006                                    Executive Board Vereniging Geschiedenis, Beeld en Geluid;
2006                                             Lecturing Bachelor Seminar '"Religious" Politics in the Netherlands, 1795-2002';
2006-                                            Editorial Board De Negentiende Eeuw.


Conference papers (selection)

‘Single-issue organsiaties. Verenigingen tot maatschappijhervorming en hun relatie tot ‘de politiek’ in Nederland, 1840-1890’ – International Conference Political Culture, Leuven, February 21, 2003.

‘The use of the concept of Conversion in the propaganda of the nineteenth-century Dutch Temperance Society’ – International Conference Cultures of Conversion, Groningen, May 21, 2003.

‘“The great example given by Britain”. Dutch ambivalence towards the transfer of the single-issue organization from Great Britain’ – International Conference Political Transfer. The use of foreign examples in politics, ca. 1789-1960, Groningen, January 15, 2004.

‘Politieke single-issuebewegingen in Nederland 1840-1880’ - Vlaams-Nederlands Historisch Congres, Antwerp, May 21, 2004.

‘Pressiegroepen voor de periode van de massapolitiek’ - Actie! Buitenparlementaire actie en beïnvloeding van politiek in de 19e en 20e eeuw, Seminar of the Kossmann Institute, Groningen, March 4, 2005.

‘Universal claims, transnational movements and political transfer: the case of the Dutch Antislavery and Temperance movements, c. 1835-1865’ - International Conference The Global Victorians: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches to the Victorian Era, Annual Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Calgary, November 2-4, 2006.

[Accepted:] ‘Abolitionism in the Netherlands: a failure? A new approach to Dutch Anti-slavery 1840-1863’ - International Conference Abolitions, 1807-2007, University of York, April 12-14, 2007.

[Accepted:] 'Benevolent Sisters to the suffering Slave-Mother. Dutch Women Abolitionists 1840-1863' - International Conference Imagining Transatlantic Slavery and Abolitionism, University of Southampton and Chawton House Library, March 16-17, 2007.

Publications (selection)

‘“Waarheid voor Nederland, regtvaardigheid voor Java”. De geschiedenis van de Maatschappij tot Nut van den Javaan 1866-1877’, Utrechtse Historische Cahiers 20 (1999) 3/4.

 De geest van Jan Salie. Nederland in verval? (Hilversum: Verloren, 2002).

‘Réveilvrouwen en de strijd voor afschaffing van de slavernij (1840-1863)’, Documentatieblad voor de Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis na 1800 XXVI (2003) 59,  9-19.

‘“Huishouden en tegelijk maatschappelijk, nuttig werkzaam zijn”. Saint-Simonistische ideeën van een Rotterdamse vrouw’, Historica 28 (2005) 1, 19-21.

‘De balanceerkunst van het afschaffen. Maatschappijhervorming beschouwd vanuit de ambities en de respectabiliteit van de negentiende-eeuwse afschaffer’, De Negentiende Eeuw 29 (2005) 1, 28-44.

with Annemarie Houkes, ‘Foreign examples as eye openers and justification. The transfer of the Anti-Corn Law League and the anti-prostitution movement to the Netherlands’, European Review of History 12 (2005) 2, 321-344.

De afschaffers. Publieke opinie, organisatie en politiek in Nederland 1840-1880 (Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek 2007).