Personal information

Name:            Janse, Maartje Johanna
Born:              27-02-1976, Göttingen (Germany)
Nationality:    Dutch

Education

2007            Doctorate, thesis: De Afschaffers. Publieke opinie, organisatie en politiek in Nederland 1840-1880 [The Abolitionists. Public opinion, organization and politics in the Netherlands, 1840-1880].
2002             Research Course Cultural History, Dutch Institute, Rome
2001-2004    Postgraduate Education Program 19th and 20th c. History
2001-2003    Training Programme Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities (OGWG)
2000             Postgraduate teacher-education in History, University of Utrecht
1994-1999    BA and MA in Cultural History, University of Utrecht (cum laude)
1988-1994    Gymnasium, Dr. F.H. de Bruijne Lyceum, Utrecht
        
                         
Employment, fellowships                

2008-            Assistant Professor Modern History, University of Leiden
2007-2008    Visiting Fellow Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University
2006-            Post Doc Researcher, History Department, University of Leiden, awarded a 3-year Fellowship to work on my Research Project Associational Mania, the Struggle for Recognition and the Transformation of Politics 1820-1890.
2001-2006    PhD, 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’ (in Dutch ‘PIONIER-project’).    
2000        History Teacher at Dr. F.H. de Bruijne Lyceum, Utrecht

Academic activities (selection)    

2008-            Executive Committee Stichting Reveil-Archief
2006-            Secretary of the Editorial Board De Negentiende Eeuw
2004-2006    Executive Committee Vereniging Geschiedenis, Beeld en Geluid
2004-2006    Editorial Board Nieuwsbrief Vereniging Geschiedenis, Beeld en Geluid
2003-2004    Organizing Committee of International Conference Political Transfer. The use of foreign examples in politics ca. 1789-1960
2001-            Initiator and Chair of the Working Group on Associational History, Huizinga Institute for Cultural History, Amsterdam, Organizer of several    seminars of this Working Group

Publications

Books, monographs in series

De Afschaffers. Publieke opinie, organisatie en politiek in Nederland 1840-1880 (Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek). (400 pp., with a summary in English)
 
De geest van Jan Salie. Nederland in verval? (Hilversum 2002) (96 pp.).

‘“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 (105 pp.).

Articles, book chapters

[Forthcoming:] ‘Admiration, Inspiration, Ambivalence: Dutch social reformers’ perception of American reform, 1830-1930’, Handbook Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609 – 2009 (2009).

‘Towards a history of civil society’, De Negentiende Eeuw 32 (2008) 2, 104-121.

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-Revue européenne d’Histoire 12 (2005) 2, 321-344.
 
‘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.

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

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

Conference papers, presentations (selection)

‘A Different Kind of Abolitionism: The Complicated Relationship of Nineteenth-century European Antislavery Movements to British Abolitionism’, Visiting Scholars Seminar Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 7, 2008.

‘Associational Mania: Organizing as Instrument in the Struggle for Recognition, 1820-1850’, Seminar Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, February 26, 2008.

‘Associational Mania: New Perceptions of Organizing, 1820-1850’, Brown Bag Series McNeill Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, January 23, 2008.

‘To relieve the suffering of others. Victims and their rescuers in the propaganda of 19th-century reform movements’, Internationaal congres Imagination and Commitment. Representations of the social question, 1870-1940, University of Groningen, May 10-11, 2007.

 ‘Abolitionism in the Netherlands: a failure? A new approach to Dutch Anti-slavery 1840-1863’, Abolitions, 1807-2007, University of York (UK), April 12-14, 2007.

‘Universal claims, transnational movements and political transfer: the case of the Dutch Antislavery and Temperance movements c. 1835-1865’, 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.

‘Pressiegroepen voor de periode van de massapolitiek’, Seminar van het Kossmann Instituut, Groningen, March 4, 2005.

‘“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, Antwerpen, May 21, 2004.

‘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.

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