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Prof. Dr. Berteke Waaldijk (the Netherlands)

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’.

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