Notes on contributors
WIM BERKELAAR is a historian at VU University, Amsterdam. With Pieter van Hees and Leen Dorsman he edited Pieter Geyl’s autobiography Ik die zo weinig in mijn verleden leef (Amsterdam, 2009). Other publications include: De schaduw van de bevrijders: Geallieerde oorlogsmisdaden tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Zutphen, 1995), ‘For us it is an honor and a pleasure’: Honorary Doctorates at the VU University since 1930 (Zoetermeer, 2007) and (together with Peter Bak) ‘Verkondiging en verstrooiing’: Een geschiedenis van de NCRV, 1924–2014. Most recently he co-edited a book about the commemorative monument of the Second World War at VU University Amsterdam: Een oorlogsplaquette ontrafeld: Het herdenkingsmonument van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2020).
LEEN DORSMAN is professor in the history of universities. He publishes on Dutch university history and on the history of historiography. He is co-editor of the Universiteit en Samenleving series (University and Society, 12 vols) and together with Piet van Hees and Wim Berkelaar was editor of Pieter Geyl’s autobiography Ik die zo weinig in mijn verleden leef (Amsterdam, 2009). Currently he is head of the Department for History and Art History of Utrecht University.
REMCO ENSEL teaches cultural history at Radboud University, Nijmegen. Among his research interests are Holocaust studies and memory studies. His most recent monograph is on Anne Frank on the Postwar Dutch Stage: Performance, Memory, Affect (New York, 2022). Previously he co-edited (with Marjet Derks, Martijn Eickhoff and Floris Meens) What’s Left Behind: The Lieux de Mémoire of Europe beyond Europe (Nijmegen, 2015), (with Evelien Gans) The Holocaust, Israel and ‘The Jew’: Histories of Antisemitism in Postwar Dutch Society (Amsterdam/Chicago, 2017), and (with Nanci Adler and Michael Wintle) Narratives of War: Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe (New York, 2019).
MARK EDWARD HAY read history in Amsterdam, Leiden, Paris and Oxford. He held an Arts and Humanities Research Council award for a doctorate in history at King’s College London. His doctoral research, entitled Calculated Risk: Collaboration and Resistance in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, 1780–1806, studied Dutch financial diplomacy. Presently, Mark is Assistant Professor in History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, where his research focuses on the financial and fiscal integration of the Napoleonic Empire, Napoleonic war financing and the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon on the European financial economies. He is currently finishing a monograph on the financing of the Louisiana Purchase.
PIETER VAN HEES† worked at the Department of History of the University of Utrecht. His publications include editions of Geyl’s correspondences (with Arie W. Willemsen) Geyl en Vlaanderen: Brieven en Notities (3 vols, 1973–75), (with George Puchinger) Briefwisseling Gerretson–Geyl (5 vols, 1979–81) and (with Wim Berkelaar and Leen Dorsman) Geyl’s autobiography Ik die zo weinig in mijn verleden leef ... (2009), as well as numerous articles on the Greater Netherlands and Flemish movements.
ALISA VAN KLEEF studied European history at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she received an MA in 2010. She is a PhD candidate at the Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Rheinische Landesgeschichte, at the University of Bonn, Germany, under the supervisorship of Manfred Groten. Her thesis analyses the institutional and ideological development of Westforschung interest in the Netherlands in interwar Germany. She currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
FONS MEIJER currently works for the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Previously, he was lecturer in cultural history at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His research addresses the history of national identity formation, political representation and media culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His PhD project investigated the relationship between disasters and nation building processes in the nineteenth century: Verbonden door rampspoed. Rampen en natievorming in negentiende-eeuws Nederland (Hilversum, 2022).
STIJN VAN ROSSEM is Head of Research and Collections at the Allard Pierson (University of Amsterdam). Previously he worked as the Curator of European Books at the John Carter Brown Library of Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). He is an associated fellow of the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), London.
REINIER SALVERDA is honorary professor of Dutch language and literature at University College London (UCL) and a member of the editorial board of Dutch Crossing: Journal for Low Countries Studies. From 2006 to 2013 he was director of the Fryske Akademy, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has taught at UCL and at the University of Jakarta and regularly publishes on Dutch (post-)colonial literature of the former East Indies (present-day Indonesia). As a member of its Équipe Scientifique he currently contributes to the new scholarly edition of the Histoire des deux Indes (1780) by the Abbé Raynal, ed. by A. Strugnell et al., 4 vols (Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d’Étude du XVIIIe Siècle, 2010–22).
ULRICH TIEDAU is Professor of European History at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) of University College London and an Associate Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH). Since 2006 he is also coordinating editor of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies and since 2011 co-convenor of the Low Countries History seminars at the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), part of the School of Advanced Studies of the University of London.