dr. D.G. (Dienke) Hondius

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Curriculum Vitae

Research interests

History, historiography and sociology of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, 'race', racism, toleration, equality, genocide, ethnicity,  intermarriage, transatlantic slave trade, slavery, African-European encounters, international, interreligious and interracial intimacy, migration, empire, postcolonialism, European expansion, Surinam, Dutch Caribbean, Africa, racial imagery, history of the Jews in the Netherlands, oral history.

Teaching

Current courses: History and sociology of 'race' and racism; history of toleration; history of equality; history of anti-semitism; oral history; history of the Holocaust.

Research

• History of 'race' and racism, in particular the Dutch contributions since 1600.
• Africans in the Netherlands: image, self-image, autobiography since 1700.
• Oral History Project: Eyewitnesses of the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

Publications

Monographs:

• Dienke Hondius, Return: Holocaust Survivors and Dutch Anti-Semitism. Praeger/Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2003.

Co-authored:

• Dienke Hondius and Talja Blokland-Potters (eds.), Integratie en racisme. Themanummer Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij. Jaargang 30, no. 2, 2003. Boom Tijdschriften, Amsterdam, juli 2003.

Articles (selection):

• Dienke Hondius, Tussen onderdanen. Amsterdam Law Forum, Vol. 1, no. 1, 2008, p. 119-122.
• Dienke Hondius, Black Africans in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, 2008, no. 1. CRRS, Toronto, Canada.
• Dienke Hondius, Bitter Homecoming. Return and reception of Dutch and Stateless Jews in the Netherlands. Article in peer reviewed conference volume: David Bankier (ed.), “The Jews are coming!” The return of Jews to their countries of origin after the Shoah. Yad Vashem Jerusalem 2005.
• Dienke Hondius,  Feindbilder: “Hinter dem Schwarzen steht immer der Jude”. A comparison of anti-Black and anti-Jewish images and rhetorics in Nazi Germany. In: Peter Martin (ed.), “Besondere Kennzeichen:Neger”. Schwarze im NS-Staat., Junius Verlag / Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg 2004.
• Dienke Hondius, Maximalisten, minimalisten en abolitionisten. Definities van racisme en hun gevolgen. In: Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, jaargang 30, no. 2, juli 2003, p. 124-131
• Dienke Hondius, Gemengde huwelijken, gemengde gevoelens. Strategieen om tolerantie te bevorderen. In: Demos, Bulletin over Bevolking en Samenleving, uitgave NIDI, Den Haag. Jaargang 19, no. 7, Augustus 2003, p. 68-70. 

Review articles (selection)

• Dienke Hondius, “Geschiedenis van het racisme”. Review of George Fredrickson, “Racism: A Short History”. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geschiedenis, 2004.

Extensive list of publications 

Professional activities

• Research associate, Center for Historical Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam  
• Staff member International Department , Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
• Board member of the Dutch board, Humanity in Action Foundation, Amsterdam and New York
• Advisor in the Netherlands, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Oral History Project Eyewitnesses of the Holocaust.
• Co-director, Summer School “Black Europe”