FRANCISCA DE HAAN

Professor

Contact:

Email: dehaanf(at)ceu.hu
Office: Zrinyi 14. room 508/BA
Phone: (36-1) 327-3000 ext. 2896
Fax: (36-1) 327-3296

Education:

Ph.D. in History. Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

M.A. in Economic and Social History. Amsterdam University, the Netherlands.

Research Areas:

Modern European women’s and gender history; Comparative history of inter/transnational women’s movements, 19th and 20th centuries.

Selected Publications:

Books:

Een eigen patroon. Geschiedenis van een joodse familie en haar bedrijven, ca. 1800-1964 [A Pattern of Their Own. History of a Jewish Family and Its Businesses from about 1800 to 1964] (Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, 2002) 462 pp.

The Rise of Caring Power. Elizabeth Fry and Josephine Butler in Britain and the Netherlands (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999; distributed by Chicago University Press) 296 pp. (co-authored with Annemieke van Drenth).

Gender and the Politics of Office Work, the Netherlands 1860-1940 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1998; distributed by Chicago University Press) 243 pp.

Sekse op kantoor. Over vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid en macht, Nederland 1860-1940 [Gender in the Office. On Femininity, Masculinity and Power, the Netherlands 1860-1940] (Hilversum: Verloren, 1992) 485 pp.

Co-edited Volumes:

Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova and Anna Loutfi (eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006; reprint 2008), 678 pp.

Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis [Women’s History Yearbook] Volumes 8-10 (Nijmegen: SUN, 1987-1989).

Articles and Book chapters:

A “Truly International” Archive for the Women’s Movement (IAV, now IIAV): From its Foundation in Amsterdam in 1935 to the Return of its Looted Archives in 2003,’Journal of Women’s History 16 no. 4 (Winter 2004) 148-172.

“Women’s History Behind the Dykes: Reflections on the Situation in the Netherlands,” in: Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson, Jane Rendall (ed.), Writing Women’s History: International Perspectives (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991) 259-277 (reprinted in 1992).

Current Research Projects:

My current research project, funded by the CEU Research Board, is tentatively called “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.”

I recently co-organized an international seminar at the IIAV that focused on the Dutch Jewish international feminist and peace activist Rosa Manus (1881-1943?), and will co-edit a book about her, her activism and the broader context of her politics, tentatively called The World of Rosa Manus.

In addition, I am founding editor of the yearbook ASPASIA, a peer reviewed periodical focusing on women’s and gender history in and from Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe. The first volume appeared in 2007.

Recent Awards and Honors:

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

The Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms, eds. Francisca de Haan, Krassimira Daskalova, and Anna Loutfi, was a 2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title selection.

Vice-President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History (from July 2005). See further www.IFRWH.com

Recent Course Offerings:

For MA students:

Women’s Movements Worldwide
Gender and Migration
Orientalism and Gender

For PhD students:
History, Literature, and Narrativity- 2 credits (co-taught with Jasmina Lukic)
Gender and the Global Cold War.

Favorite Pastime in Budapest

Yoga