New fellows Utrecht University History
Daniëlle de Kurver and Nike Stam
Daniëlle de Kurver (Leiden University, research master's student in History) and Dr Nike Stam (Utrecht University, associate professor of Celtic Studies) have been awarded a fellowship and seed money respectively for their project proposals in the field of Utrecht University History.
The fellowship is a new initiative of Utrecht University Library, the Descartes Centre, and the Working Group Utrecht University History, designed to explore the role of the university in society using items from the Special Collections that reflect the rich and diverse history of the UU. In the run-up to UU's next centenary in 2036, the university library aims to highlight these collections in the coming years.
Project proposals
De Kurver’s project ‘The Absent West: Interests and colonial knowledge order at the Utrecht Indology study programme’’ will focus on the Utrecht programme of Indology Studies (founded in 1925) from the perspective of how colonial power structures between 1900 and 1940 became intertwined with academic knowledge production at Utrecht University.
Stam’s project ‘The Old Girl’s Network? How UU women Johanna Westerdijk and Maartje Draak helped each other in a man's world' will investigate how female UU professors Johanna Westerdijk (1883-1961) and Maartje Draak (1907-1995) helped each other from the 1930s onwards, across generations and disciplines, in a man’s world.