Francisca de Haan

Professor
School of Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies
Room: 
Zrinyi 14. room 508/B
Phone number: 
+36 1 327 - 3034 or 3000 /ext 2896
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Qualifications: 
Ph.D., 1992, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
M.A., 1985, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements: 

Research Areas:

Modern European women’s and gender history Inter/transnational women’s movements, 19th and 20th centuries

Research Projects:

Cold War in the International Women’s Movement: The International Alliance of Women (IAW), the International Council of Women (ICW) and the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), 1945-1990 (book project)

With Mieke Aerts (University of Amsterdam) I am co-editing a book called The World of Rosa Manus: International Feminism, Peace and Politics, about the Jewish international feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus (1881-1943?) and the politics of the international women’s movement of the time.

Recent Awards and Honors:

Guest Professor, History Department, Stockholm University, Sweden (Fall 2009)

Fellow at the National Humanities Center, NC (2008-2009) (John E. Sayer Fellowship, endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)

The Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms was a 2006 Choice “Outstanding Academic Title”

Vice-President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (2005-2010)

Recent Course Offerings:

MA: Women’s Movements World Wide; Gender and Migration; Orientalism and Gender

PhD: History, Literature, and Narrativity (co-taught with Jasmina Lukic); Gender and the Global Cold War.

Academic/Research Areas: 
Gender Studies

Publications

Book
Book Chapter
de Haan, F., and A. Mevis. "The IAV/IIAV archival policy and practice : seventy years of collecting, receiving, and refusing women’s archives (1935-2005)." In Traveling heritages : new perspectives on collecting, preserving and sharing women’s history, edited by S. Wieringa, 23-46. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008.
de Haan, F.. "Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg." In The Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history, edited by B. G. Smith, 329-333. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
de Haan, F.. "On retrieving women’s cultural heritage : especially the history of women’s movements in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe." In Traveling heritages : new perspectives on collecting, preserving and sharing women’s history, edited by S. Wieringa, 65-78. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2008.
de Haan, F.. "Anna Polak (1874-1943)." In Jewish women : a comprehensive historical encyclopedia, edited by Jewish Women's Archive, P. Hyman and D. Ofer. Jerusalem: Shalvi Publishing, 2006.
de Haan, F.. "Introduction." In Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms : Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries, edited by K. Daskalova and A. Loutfi, 1-15. Budapest: CEU Press, 2006.
de Haan, F.. "Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)." In Oxford dictionary of national biography, 92-95. Vol. 21. Oxford University Press, 2004.
de Haan, F.. "Frits van Gelderen." In Joodse oorlogsmonumenten in de provincie Overijssel : alsmede algemene oorlogsmonumenten waarop joodse namen voorkomen, edited by H. Hamburger and J. C. Regtien. Joodse oorlogsmonumenten. Bedum: Profiel, 2002.
de Haan, F.. "Anna Polak." In Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland, edited by A. J. C. M. Gabriëls, 391-393. Vol. 5. Hague: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 2001.
de Haan, F., and A. Mevis. "Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot." In Biografisch Woordenboek voor het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging, 58-61. Vol. 8. Amsterdam, 2000.
de Haan, F., and A. Mevis. "M.C. Bouwmeester." In Biografisch Woordenboek voor het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging, 20-23. Vol. 7., 1998.
de Haan, F., and A. Mevis. "Marie Heinen." In Biografisch Woordenboek voor het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging, 84-87. Vol. 6. Amsterdam, 1995.
de Haan, F., and A. Mevis. "Jungius, Hendrika Maria Aleida." In Biografisch Woordenboek voor het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging, 107-110. Vol. 6. Amsterdam, 1995.
de Haan, F.. "Het lesbische en de vrouwenbeweging : een geschiedenis van perspectiefwisseling." In Homoseksualiteit voor beginners, edited by M. Keilson-Lauritz, 36-44. Amsterdam: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, 1989.
de Haan, F.. "Gender in the office." In Gender and historiography, edited by J. Blok and M. van Tilburg, 79-84. Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit, 1989.
de Haan, F., and C. Verberk. "En wat zeggen de schoolboeken?" In Een Tipje van de Sluier : vrouwengeschiedenis in Nederland, 32-35. Amsterdam: LOV, 1978.
Conference Paper
de Haan, F.. "On foundational assumptions in labour history, some of their consequences in the historiography of office work, and the difference gender makes." In Conference proceedings of the International Colloquium on Gender and Class in the Twentieth Century, edited by D. de Weerdt, 48-60. Ghent: AMSAB/MIAT, 2000.
de Haan, F.. "Economic transformations, gender and the state." In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 27 August to 3 September 1995, edited by C. Morin, 75-86. Montreal, 1995.
de Haan, F.. "Women's and gender history in the Netherlands : a discussion of some recent trends." In Orte der Geschlechtergeschichte : Beiträge der 7. Schweizerischen Historikerinnentagung, edited by F. Jenny, 12-34. Zürich: Chronos Verlag, 1994.
de Haan, F.. "Women’s history behind the dykes : reflections on the situation in the Netherlands." In Writing women's history : international perspectives, edited by K. Offen, R. Roach Pierson and J. Rendall, 259-277. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991.
Journal Article
de Haan, F.. "Gendering labor history." Int. Rev. Soc. Hist.International review of social history 54 (2009): 111-113.
Lukic, J.. "Introduction : negotiating identities in the post-world(s)." Aspasia : international yearbook of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European women’s and gender history 2 (2008): 160-168.
de Haan, F.. "Editorial." Aspasia : international yearbook of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European women’s and gender history 1 (2007): v-ix.
de Haan, F., M. Bosch, and C. Ulbrich. "Editorial." l’Homme : Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 13, no. 2 (2002): 167-173.
de Haan, F.. "Pleidooi voor genderperspectief." Onvoltooid Verleden : Kwartaalblad voor de geschiedenis van sociale bewegingen, no. 13 (2001): 31-35.
de Haan, F.. "Gender in the office." Research notes from the Netherlands, no. 2 (1992): 23.
de Haan, F.. "Na vijftien jaren : Vrouwengeschiedenis in Nederland, 1976-1991." In haar verleden ingewijd : De ontwikkeling van vrouwengeschiedenis in Nederland (1991): 13-44.
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