Biography
After studying history at Radboud University Nijmegen, Margit van der Steen spent ten years at Utrecht University as director of the Dutch Women’s Studies Association. On behalf of the Dutch government, she took part in the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2003 and read a statement there. As director/owner of the AETAS Agency for Age, Gender and Diversity Issues, she has worked since 2001 as an independent researcher and advisor for knowledge institutions, the national police, ministries, and civil society organisations. She gained her doctorate at Leiden University in 2011 with a dissertation about the socialist, sociologist, and feminist Hilda Verwey-Jonker, Drift en Koers: De levens van Hilda Verwey-Jonker (1908-2004) [Passion and Course. The Lives of Hilda Verwey-Jonker (1908–2004)] (Bert Bakker 2011, second edition).
Since 2011 she has been working at Huygens ING as coordinator of the national Political History Research School and as secretary to the International Association for Political History. She combined that part-time position with postdoc positions at Leiden University and Radboud University Nijmegen. Since 1 November 2018 she has also been a university lecturer at Leiden University.
Research Project
Coordinator, Political History Research School (OPG). The OPG provides educational programmes for Holders of PhDs, strengthens (international) cooperation and is committed to improving the quality of academic research in the field of political history.
www.onderzoekschoolpolitiekegeschiedenis.nl
Publications
Main publications
- Drift en Koers
- Review of: Hans Renders en Binne de Haan (eds.), Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing (Lewiston, NY [etc.]: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013, 434 pp.
- Review of: Herman Langeveld, De man die in de put sprong. Willem Schermerhorn, 1894-1977
- De stem van het volk.
- De moderne politieke geschiedenis in Limburg. Een geschiedenis.
- Europe and what lies beyond.
- [Review of] W.H. Weenink, Vrouw achter de troon. Marie Anne Tellegen 1893-1976.
- Marcus Bakker. Een gelovig communist. [Review of Leo Molenaar, Nooit op de knieën. Marcus Bakker (1923-2009) communist en parlementariër.]
- Brussel is een bodemloze put … en zes andere clichés over de Europese Unie.
- [Review of] Sytze van der Zee, Harer Majesteits loyaalste onderdaan.
- [Review of] Rumour rond een flamboyante partijvernieuwer: Haya van Someren-Downer (1926-1980).
- Wie was dr. Hilda Verwey-Jonker?
- De moderne politieke geschiedenis in ‘Limburg. Een geschiedenis’.
- Lege koffiekoppen en vuile asbakken.
- [Review of] Adinda Akkermans en Roos Menkhorst, Bibeb. Biechtmoeder van Nederland.
- [Review of] Sheila Sitalsing, Mark. Portret van een premier
- [Review of ] De eeuwige tweede man.
- [review of] Annelies van Heijst en Marjet Derks, Catharina Halkes, ‘Ik verwacht iets groots’.
- [Book reviews] Han van Bree, De geest van het Oude Loo. Juliana en haar vriendenkring 1947-1957 and Jolande Withuis, Juliana. Vorstin in een mannenwereld.
- ‘Het was het nieuwe geluid dat gehoord werd.’
- Hilda Verwey-Jonker
- Jaarrede
- ‘Het was het nieuwe geluid dat gehoord werd’.
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