Berteke Waaldijk

Taal- en cultuurstudies
Language and Culture Studies
Drift 8

3512 BS Utrecht
The Netherlands
+31-(0)30-253.61.51
berteke.waaldijk@let.uu.nl

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Read the English translation of my inaugural lecture

Professor of Language and Culture Studies

Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University

Language and Culture Studies - TCS
Research Institute Culture & History, Utrecht University
Gender Graduate Programme Utrecht University

Short Introduction Projects and Research Interests

Berteke Waaldijk’s research focuses on the history of gender, culture and citizenship. She received her doctor’s degree in 1996 with a comparative study on the gender and history of social work in the Netherlands and the United States. Her research centers around comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives on (post)colonial and social definitions of citizenship and national identity. See under publications for articles and books in Dutch and in English. Berteke Waaldijk chairs the undergraduate Liberal Arts programme ‘Language and Culture Studies’ at the Faculty of Arts of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Her research and her graduate teaching are located in the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University, which is part of the Research Institute Culture and History. Berteke Waaldijk teaches courses in the Language and Culture Programme and in the programmes of Gender Studies. Moreover, she is actively involved in several international research networks. Berteke Waaldijk is Project Coordinator of the Socrates Thematic Network Athena III. ATHENA3 provides a platform for the fast-growing, inter-disciplinary and socially relevant field of gender education in Europe and to create synergy between different partners. In addition, she chairs Thematic Working Group 4, ‘Work Gender and Society’ within the Sixth Framework ‘Network of Excellence’ ‘CliohRES’ – Creating Links and Overviews for a New History Research Agenda for the Citizens of a Growing Europe’.

  Current Projects and Research Interests

Three fields of interest can be distinguished.

1. History and philosophy of the humanities

This project aims to study and research the history and philosophy of the humanities from three different perspectives: the histories of (inter-)disciplinary research fields, the history of the humanities as a general 'liberal arts'- education, and as well as the history of the humanities as a tradition of educating creating active citizens. It aims (1) to provide a critical historical perspective on the diversity and the relevance of the contemporary debates about the role of the Humanities in educating citizens; (2) to explore the historical interaction between radical contestation and classical legitimization of humanities and to analyze the way debates & practices about the humanities interact in curriculum innovation in the humanities and liberal arts within Europe. Berteke Waaldijk argues that these three aspects have a long tradition of interaction and, thus, cannot be understood or analyzed separately. The project is particularly concerned about the history of women in the humanities and, in this context, interested in ways of considering humanities as a gendered domain. The project is closely tied to the development of teaching material for the liberal arts programme at Utrecht university (Bachelor programme ‘Taal- en cultuurstudies’) and the seminar ‘Fundamentals of the Humanities’ in the Research MA of the OGC. Berteke Waaldijk cooperates for this project with Professor Rosi Braidotti, Prof. Ed Jonker and drs.Iris van der Tuin.

2. Cultural nationalism: gender, culture and citizenship.

In 1998, Berteke Waaldijk published, together with Maria Grever, a book-length study of the 1898 National Exhibition of Women’s Labor. Revised English edition: Transforming the Public Sphere. The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898 (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press). The history of the 1898 Exhibition forms the starting point of a new project that compares the historical innovations in media on the way gender, ethnicity and class are constructed. The rise of new media deeply impacts political cultures. This was the case in the nineteenth century (cheap newspapers, photography, expositions) and in the fin-de-siècle (film, telephone) as well as in the twentieth century (radio, television, and internet). These new forms of identification with nation and state have created new forms of inclusion and exclusion, new patterns of emancipation and citizenship, e.g. cultural citizenship. In this project Berteke Waaldijk studies how of civil, political, social and cultural inclusion within national and within transnational associations is impacted by the rise of new forms of mediated culture. The focus will be on gender and on the interaction between national and transnational (colonial/postcolonial) identification. The project 'cultural nationalism' will be conducted in cooperation with prof. dr. S. Legêne (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), their article ‘Mission interrupted’ explores how gender has shaped popular and scholarly canonization of Dutch colonial history. The article argues that critical reflection on national canonized culture and history should include attention to gender, to the interaction between different media and to the way ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural practices intermingle.

3. Gender and Welfare: transnational histories of women and social welfare (1900-2000)

Berteke Waaldijk has published about social work as a model for public authority by women. The early history of social work provided insights in the role of women in the conception of the Dutch welfare state (Waaldijk 1996). At a very practical level (post-) colonialism and social policies met and interacted in the daily routines of help and care. At this point social welfare policies and practices contributed to new definitions of insiders and outsiders, of national identity and of national responsibility. For the Marie Kamphuis Stichting, Berteke Waaldijk has founded the Marie Kamphuis Archive, a documentation center for the history of social work in the Netherlands. With Sabine Hering (University of Siegen), Berteke Waaldijk has initiated the foundation in 2001 of a European 'Network for Historical Studies of Gender and Social Work’. The Volkswagen Foundation sponsored their research project (2002-2005, over 20 researchers in 8 countries) to trace the history of social work in Central and Eastern Europe between 1900 and 1960. It aims to broaden and deepen European welfare history beyond the histories of Western welfare states such as Esping-Anderson. One of the resulting book-length studies, ‘Guardians of the poor, custodians of the public’ (by Berteke Waaldijk and Sabine Hering, 2005); explores the history of social welfare in Central and Eastern Europe 1900-1960. It compares different aspects of social welfare such as gender, training, insurance, social work of social welfare in different periods and regimes. With Prof. Janneke van Mens-Verhulst (University for Humanities, Utrecht), Berteke Waaldijk prepares a publication about the history of Dutch feminist projects in the field of healthcare. With a group of 12 researchers they explore Dutch feminist healthcare initiatives (1975-2000). In this project, she works closely with the IIAV (Internationaal Informatiecentrum en Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging, Amsterdam) – in collecting and archiving materials and oral histories. The expected publication of this book (in Dutch) is 2008, title: ‘Vrouwenhulpverlening 1975-2000: Beweging in de gezondheidszorg’(Houten: BSL). This research project is also integrated in Waaldijks participation in the EU-Framework 6 Network of Excellence for History. See Berteke Waaldijk, ‘Beyond Social Citizenship. New approaches in European welfare history’ in: Gro Hagemann, ed., Reciprocity and Redistribution. Work and Welfare Reconsidered. (Pisa: University of Pisa Press, 2007) www.cliohres.net

Read more about Berteke Waaldijk's research projects on the OGC pages.

Publications

Books

2007 (edited with Marie Kamphuis) Kijken in de spiegel van het verleden. Maatschappelijk werk in historisch perspectief (Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum)

2006 (edited with Andre Petö) Teaching with memories. Best practices from teaching women’s history in Europe (publication from ATHENAII thematic network)

2006 (edited with Sabine Hering) Guardians of the Poor, Custodians of the Public. History of social work in Eastern Europe (publication in context of SWEEP-project sponsored by Volkswagen) (Opladen/Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Publishers).

2005 Talen naar Cultuur. Burgerschap en de Letterenstudies. (Yearning for Culture. Citizenship and the Humanities) Inaugural Lecture Utrecht University, October 14, 2005.

2004 (with Maria Grever) Transforming the public sphere. The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898 (Chapel Hill NC: Duke University Press)

2002 (edited with Sabine Hering) Die Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit in Europa (1900-1960). Wichtige Pionierinnen und ihr Einfluss auf die Entwicklung internationaler Organisationen, (Hamburg: Opladen 2002) (an English translation: idem, History of Social Work in Europe, 1900-1960. (Hamburg: Opladen, 2003)

1999 (with Jaap van der Stel and Geert van der Laan) Honderd jaar sociale arbeid. Portretten en praktijken uit de geschiedenis van het maatschappelijk werk  (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1999) [‘Hundred years of social work. Portraits and practices from the history of Dutch social work’]

1998  (met Maria Grever) Feministische Openbaarheid. De Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid in 1898  (Amsterdam: IISG/IIAV, 1998)

1996 Het Amerika der Vrouw. Sekse en Geschiedenis van Maatschappelijk Werk in Nederland en de Verenigde Staten  (Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1996) dissertation [A new world for women. Gender and history of social work in the Netherlands and the United States]

1985 (met Doeko Bosscher) Ambon, Eer en Schuld. De Zuidmolukse kwestie in de Nederlandse politiek  (Weesp: Van Holkema en Warendorf, 1985) [Ambon, honor and debt. The South-Moluccan issue in Dutch politics]

Special Journal issues

2003 (edited with Anneke Smelik) ‘Digitale Verbeelding’.Themanummer van Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies (verzameling artikelen die resultaat zijn van NWO-internationaliserings project, verschijnt voorjaar 2003)

1989 (edited with Anneke Smelik) Metaforen van Geweld, Geweld van Metaforen themanummer van Tijdschrift voor Vrouwenstudies (Nijmegen, 1989) [‘Metaphors of violence – violence of metaphors’ special issue of journal for women’s studies]

1987 (edited with Geertje Dimmendaal) Vrouw en Verzorgingsstaat, themanummer van Groniek, Gronings Historisch Tijdschrift (Groningen, 1987)  [‘Women and the welfarestate’ special issue of historical journal]

Chapters in books

soon… ‘Social workers and the problem of maternalist condescension: the productive ambiguities of speaking on behalf of others’ in: Marjan van der Klein e.a., eds. Maternalism Reconsidered

2007 ‘1932-1935: ‘'Eindelijk mens' - Maatschappelijk werk als vrouwenwerk’ in: B. Waaldijk and M. Kamphaus Kijken in de spiegel van het verleden. Maatschappelijk werk in historisch perspectief (Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum) 13-28

2007 ‘Inleiding’ in: M. Kamphaus Kijken in de spiegel van het verleden. Maatschappelijk werk in historisch perspectief (Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum) 7-13

2007 ‘Beyond Social Citizenship: New Approaches in Comparative European Welfare History’ in: G. Hagemann Reciprocity and Redistribution: Work and Welfare Reconsidered (Pisa: Pisa University Press) 1-23

2007 (with Geertje Mak) ‘De politiek van Florence Nightingale in de feministische geschiedschrijving’ in: R. Buikema and I. van der Tuin Gender in media, kunst en cultuur (Bussum : Coutinho) 214-230

2007 (with Susan Legêne) ‘Mission Interrupted: Gender, History and the Colonial Canon’ in: M. Grever and S. Stuurman Beyond the Canon: History for the Twenty-first Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan) 188-205

2006 ‘Gender and the History of Social Work’ in: B.Waaldijk and S.Hering Guardians of the Poor, Custodians of the Public. History of social work in Eastern Europe (publication in context of SWEEP-project sponsored by Volkswagen) (Opladen/Farmington Hills: Barbara Budrich Publishers) 69-76

2005 (with Borbola Juhasz, Andrea Petö, and Jeannette van der Sanden) ‘Educational Migration and Women's Studies Students' Employment’ in: Gabrielle Griffin, ed., Doing Women’s Studies – employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences. (London: Zed Books) 168-194

2004 (with Andrea Petö) ‘Memories, Histories and Narratives’ in Rosi Braidotti; Edyta Just and Marlise Mensink, eds., The Making of European Women's Studies Volume V (Utrecht: Athena Advanced Thematic Network in Activities in Women's Studies) 173-175

2004 ‘Christine de Pizan en Vrouwenstudies’ in: R.E. Stuip, ed., Christine de Pizan, een bijzondere vrouw (Hilversum: Verloren 191-202

2003 (with Susan Legêne) ‘1901 Gerret Rouffaer consteert een artistieke ereschuld. Vernieuwing van de beeldende kunst in een koloniale context’ in: Rosemarie Buikema en Maaike Meijer, eds. Kunsten in Beweging I (Den Haag: SdU) 19-37.

2002 (with Jeanette van der Sanden) ‘The Netherlands” in: G. Griffin (ed.) Women’s Employment, Women’s Studies, and Equal Opportunities 1945-2001 (University of Hull) 122-176

2002 (with Anoushka Boet) ‘Marie Kamphuis’ in: Hering und Waaldijk, eds.: Die Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit in Europa (1900-1960). Wichtige Pionierinnen und ihr Einfluss auf die Entwicklung internationaler Organisationen, (Hamburg: Opladen) 45 -52

2002 (with Sabine Hering) 'Einleitung in: Hering und Waaldijk, eds.: Die Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit in Europa (1900-1960). Wichtige Pionierinnen und ihr Einfluss auf die Entwicklung internationaler Organisationen, (Hamburg: Opladen 2002 ) 1-19 (an English version was published in 2003)

2002 (with Andrea Petö) ‘Writing the Lives of Foremothers. The History and Future of a Feminist Teaching Tool’ in: Rosi Braidotti, Janny Nieboer and Sanne Hirs, eds, The Making of European Women’s studies IV (Utrecht: Athena, 2002)149-161

2001 (with Susan Legêne) ‘Reverse Images - Patterns of Absence. Batik and the representation of colonialism in the Netherlands’ in: Itie van Hout, ed., Batik Drawn in Wax (Amsterdam: KIT-publishers) 35-69

2000 ‘Een kijkje in de plaggenhut.Visualisering van bevoogdend burgerschap tijdens de nationale tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid’ in: F.Dieteren en M.Grever, eds., Een Vaderland voor Vrouwen /A Fatherland for Women. Proceedings VVG Conference, Amsterdam 1998 (Amsterdam: IISG/IIAV, 2000) 104-116 [‘Visualization and custodian citizenship in 1898’]

2000 (with Brouns, M., Birriel, M., Oleksy, E., Sunnari, V. & Wischermann, U., 'Towards an evaluation of women’s studies teaching manuals in Europe I’ in: R.Braidotti and E.Vonk, eds., The Making of European Women’s studies I (Utrecht: Athena, 2000) 36-54.

2000 ‘Nederland en de mythe Kartini. Brieven over en weer’ in: E.Captain, M.Hellevoort en M. van der Klein, eds., Vertrouwd en vreemd. Ontmoetingen tussen Nederland, Indië en Indonesië (Hilversum: Verloren, 2000) 123-135.

2000 (with Miglena Nikolchina) ‘Critical perspectives on teaching women’s and gender studies’ in: R. Braidotti, Sonja van Wichelen and Esther Vonk., eds., The Making of European Women’s studies II (Utrecht: Athena) 117-122.

1999 (with Jaap van der Stel and Geert van der Laan) ‘Inleiding. De uitvinding van het maatschappelijk werk’ in: Berteke Waaldijk, Jaap van der Stel en Geert van der Laan, eds. Honderd jaar sociale arbeid. Portretten en praktijken uit de geschiedenis van het maatschappelijk werk (Assen: Van Gorcum) 1-4

1999 ‘Marie Kamphuis en de wijde wereld van het maatschappelijk werk’in: Berteke Waaldijk, Jaap van der Stel en Geert van der Laan, eds., Honderd jaar sociale arbeid. Portretten en praktijken uit de geschiedenis van het maatschappelijk werk (Assen: Van Gorcum) 112-127 [‘Marie Kamphuis and the wide world of social work’]

1997 ‘Colonial Constructions of  a Dutch Women’s Movement: 1898’ in: Kati Röttger and Heike Paul, eds., Differenzen in der Geschlechterdifferenz – Differences within Gender Studies. Aktuelle Perspektiven der Geschlechterforschung (Hamburg: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 1998) 286-299

1997 'Vrouwen en de geschiedenissen van het Nederlandse maatschappelijk werk' in: Herman Nijenhuis, ed. De lerende professie. Hoofdlijnen van het maatschappelijk werk (Utrecht: SWP) 22-33 [‘Women and the histories of Dutch social work’]

1996 'Transatlantic Translations, Women and Social Case Work in the Netherlands and the United States' in: Hans Bak, Frits van Holthoon and Hans Krabbendam, eds., Social and Secure? Politics and Culture of the Welfare State: A comparative Inquiry (Amsterdam: VU University Press)

1993 'Van verhalen en bronnen: feministische geschiedschrijving' in: Rosemarie Buikema and Anneke Smelik (eds.), Vrouwenstudies in de cultuurwetenschappen (Muiderberg, Coutinho:)  (in 1995 translated as: 'Of Stories and Sources: feminist history' in: Rosemarie Buikema and Anneke Smelik, eds., Women's Studies and Culture, a Feminist Introduction (Londen: ZED-books, 1995)

1993 'Reading Anne Frank as a Woman' in: Women's Studies International Forum  (autumn 1993) (in 2000 reprinted in: Hyman A. Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer, eds., Anne Frank. Reflections on Her Life and Legacy, Chicago/Urbana: UIP) 110-120. [een Nederlandse vertaling verscheen in: Gerrold van der Stroom, ed. De vele gezichten van Anne Frank; visies op een fenomeen (Amsterdam: De Prom, 2003) 106 - 122

Articles in Journals

2007 ‘Margrith Wilke (1958-2007) Haar bijdrage aand e vrouwengeschiednis’ in: Historica 30 (2007) nr.3, 9-11

2006 ‘That’s us. Women’s history and academic careers’ in: Journal of Women’s History 18.1 (2006) 172-176

2006 ‘Een brutale dienstmaagd: Het belang van de cultuurwetenschappen’ in Vooys 24(4)19-30

2006 Review of Amy Richter, Home on the Rails, Women, the Railroad and the rise of Public Domesticity Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis

2004 (with Maria Grever), ‘Women's Labour at Display: Feminist Claims to Dutch Citizenship and Colonial Politics around 1900’ in: Journal of women's history, 15(4), 11-18.

2004 'Charitas zonder wetenschap is als een schip zonder roer' In memoriam Marie Kamphuis. Maatwerk. Vakblad voor maatschappelijk werk, 18-20

2003 ‘Wereldtentoonstellingen en het World Wide Web. Een historische vergelijking’ in:Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 6(1), 43-60.

2003 Review of Joshua Goldstein, War and Gender. How Gender Shapes the War Systems and Vice Versa (Cambridge UP, 2001) in: Vrede en Veiligheid. Tijdschrift voor internationale vraagstukken. 3.3 (2003) 374-378

2002 Review of: Gail Lewis,'Race', Gender and Social Welfare. Encounters in a Postcolonial Society in: European Journal of Genderstudies, 199-201

2001 Review of: Thole, W. & Galuske, M. ‘KlassikerInnen der Soziale Arbeit. Sozialpaedagogische Texte aus zwei Jahrhunderten - ein Lesebuch’ in: Sociale interventie, 10. (2001) nr. 3 pp. 54-57

2001 (with Sabine Hering) ‘Geschlecht und Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit in Europa (1900-1950)’in: Sozial Extra25.7/8 (Juli-august 2001) 28-36

2000 'Rethinking Violence against Women'. [Recensie van:] Dobash, R.E. & Dobash, R.P. Rethinking Violence against Women in: European Journal of Social Work, 3.3 (2000) 328-329.

1999 ‘Tussen moeder en dochter’. Juliana en het koningschap als maatschappelijk werk’ in:Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 2.3 (oktober 1999) 20-32 [Between mother and daughter. Queen Juliana and being a queen as a social worker]

1998 (with Maria Grever) ’Blikken van bezoekers. Het publiek van de Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid’ in: Lover, Tijdschrift over Feminisme Cultuur en Wetenschap 25.3,  60-65 [the looks of visitors, the audience of the National Exhibition of social work in 1898’]

Other publications

1999 (with Anoushka Boet), eds., Hall of Fame van het Nederlandse Maatschappelijk Werk [digital hall of fame of Dutch social work] [digital publication available under: http://www.mks.nl/]

1998 (with Maria Grever) 'Panorama in de duinen. Dwalen door de Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid' in: Dineke Stam De Glorie van het Ongeziene. Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid 100 jaar later (Tentoonstellingscatalogus) (IIAV 1998) 30-36

1997 ‘Daring to care. Histories of the Dutch Welfare State and Changing notions of Citizenship’ in: Democracy and Welfare in Europe – New Approaches in History Teaching (The Hague, Report from a Training Seminar in Copenhagen in 1996 for European History Teachers organized as a part of EU Comenius) 7-13

1996 'Women and "Woman" in decision-making, towards a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses' in: Women for renewal of politics and society (Official records of European Conference, Rome) 130-134.

1992 ‘Preface’ in: FEMINISM: THEORY AS LIBERATORY PRACTICE, Oratie for bell hooks (Belle van Zuylen Professor) (Utrecht: Arts Faculty University Utrecht) 1-2

Teaching

Click for more information about the one year MA Comparative Women’s Studies and about the two-year Research MA Gender and Ethnicity at Utrecht University

A list of the courses that Berteke Waaldijk currently teaches can be found in her profile on the OGC-website.

Full CV

Dr Maria Lambertina Waaldijk (Berteke Waaldijk)

the Netherlands

 berteke.waaldijk@let.uu.nl

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DEGREES
 
 2001      Senior Qualification for Research (degree of Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University: for skills and experience in initiating, conducting and managing research projects)
 1997      Qualification for Academic Teaching (degree of Faculty of Arts, Utrecht University)
 1996      PhD in History, (promotie),  Erasmus University Rotterdam. Dissertation: ‘Het Amerika der Vrouw. Sekse en geschiedenis van Maatschappelijk Werk in Nederland en de Verenigde Staten’  [A New World for Women.: Gender and History of Social Work in the Netherlands and the United States, 1890-1950]
 1982      MA Modern History (doctoraal examen),  Rijks Universiteit Groningen, the Netherlands (Major: Modern History; Minors: Philosophy, and Social and Economic history, MA-thesis: 'De Stichting Door de Eeuwen Trouw en de Zuidmolukse kwestie' [South Moluccan Independance and its Dutch supporters])
 1975  Gymnasium   Revius Lyceum Doorn, the Netherlands
 
 
EMPLOYMENT
 
 2003-2005  Supervisor Graduate Studies Research Institute History and Culture (OGC)
 2002  Guest Lecturer UC Santa Barbara 
 2000-       Associate Professor Women’s History and Women’s Studies, Utrecht University
 1998-         Member of the Faculty Committee for the Liberal Arts Programme (Teaching and Curriculum management)
 1997-2000  Coordinator of Project in Women’s Studies for the integration of Information & Communication Technologies in academic teaching (sponsored by University and Ministry of Education)
1993-2000  Assistant Professor Women’s Studies Utrecht University  (tenure 1996)
1988-1992  Research Fellow Netherlands Research Foundation  (NWO) for research project  'The (re)production of gender in text'
1987-1993  Lecturer Women’s Studies Utrecht University
1985-1987  Lecturer Contemporary History at the Academy for Information and Libraries, Groningen.
1982-1987  History teacher in secondary schools
 
 
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
 
 - (with Sabine Hering) Volkswagen Grant for research on History of Social Work in Europe 1900-1960
  - United States Information Service 'International Visitor Program' - EU Regional Group Project "American Studies"
 - Fulbright Junior Research Fellowship (research for dissertation: January – June 1990)
 
 
MEMBERSHIPS
 
 - Board International Information-center and Archive of the Women’s Movement (from 1997) – Secretary of the Board;
- Board Marie Kamphuis Foundation (from 1996) Foundation to strengthen the development of scholarship and research in the field of social 
 work – vice president;
- National Committee for the celebration of 100 years education for social work “You can learn to help” (1997-1999);
 - Initiator of ‘Marie Kamphuis Archief’, Archive and Documentation-center for the history of Social Work in the Netherlands and the Dutch    Colonies;
 - Founder (with Prof. dr Sabine Hering, FU Berlin) of European research network on gender and history of social work: : ‘Network for Historical 
  Studies of Gender and Social Work’. (September 2001)
PUBLICATIONS

E-mail: berteke.waaldijk@let.uu.nl.

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Laatst gewijzigd: 16 Mar 2009