Mw.drs. A. (Annelieke) Dirks
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| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2666 |
| E-Mail: | a.dirks@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Algemene Geschiedenis |
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Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 272B |
- Fields of interest
- Colonial history, Gender and childhood in the Dutch East Indies, African-American History and history of crime and re-education
Advisors: Prof. Wim van den Doel (Leiden University) and Prof. Alice Conklin (The Ohio State University).
- Curriculum vitae
- Annelieke did a BA and MA in History at Leiden University (2002) and worked as a political journalist for the Dutch National Press Agency (2001-2004). In September 2004 she moved to Columbus to pursue a PhD in History at the Ohio State University. She majored in Modern European Colonial and Racial History and minored in Modern American and Gender History. Annelieke also taught undergraduate courses in Modern US History, Modern European History, and World History. At Leiden University she is continuing her research on juvenile delinquency and colonial civil society in the Netherlands Indies.
- Current Project
- "For the Youth": Juvenile delinquency, the colonial state, and the development of a 'colonial civil society' in the Netherlands Indies, 1890-1945",
This research project focuses on forced re-education policies for juvenile delinquents in the Netherlands Indies (now Indonesia) and uses this topic to show the interaction between a 'modernizing' Dutch colonial state and the growth of a 'colonial civil society', between approximately 1890 and 1945. I intend to uncover specific government and private initiatives – like state re-education institutes, orphanages, and schools – that attempted to turn young delinquents of Indonesian and (Indo-)European heritage into 'proper' Dutch colonial subjects and citizens. The dissertation shows that a colonial civil society was rapidly developing in the twentieth century and had an undeniable influence on state policies. My work also seeks to understand and reveal the experience of racialized government and private reform policies on the lives of the children that were deemed 'delinquent', their parents and communities.
- Publications and Conferences
- "Juvenile delinquency, the colonial state, and the development of a 'colonial civil society' in the Netherlands Indies, 1890-1945", presentation at the conference for the Social and Cultural History of Children and Youth, Norrköping, Sweden, June 2007
"Between Threat and Reality: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the emergence of armed self-defense in Clarksdale and Natchez, Mississippi, 1960-1965" accepted for publication in The Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Michigan State University, publication date: late 2006.
"Using Oral History in the Classroom; Interpreting politicized memories of Japanese American Internment", presentation at the Sixth European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2006.
