Home
Katharina Garvert-Huijnen is member of the DAAD financed Graduate School of the Germany Intitute Amsterdam (Graduiertenkolleg DIA).
Graduiertenkolleg DIA
PhD-research
Working title: 'European Partners? The Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands: Two Founding Fathers and their Ideas on European Integration 1945-1973' (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ton Nijhuis)
My PhD-project focuses on the relations between Germany and the Netherlands during the formative phase of the European integration process. The research particularly concentrates on the interaction between the actors that were able to influence the official national policies in both countries towards the European integration process. In the first place, naturally, diplomats and members of the respective national governments come to mind in this respect. However, actors on the European level also started to influence national policies after the first supranational institutions were established in the 1950s.
It is evident that interest groups, international preconditions, the parliamentary opposition, transnational networks of different kinds, societal developments and differences in political systems also had their influence on the European policies on both national and transnational level. Furthermore, the formulation of a national policy towards Europe can, particularly in the case of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands, always be traced back to the shared (though evidently not similar) histories of war and occupation.
In short, by assessing these various spheres of influence, this research projects aims to find out if one can speak of a 'Europeanization' of German-Dutch relations - and if so, how this took place between 1945 and 1973.
Curriculum vitae
Katharina Garvert-Huijnen (Berlin, 1976) studied history, political science and English literature at the University of Münster (Germany). She received her MA-degree in the department of Modern History in 2006. She is currently writing her PhD thesis at the Germany Institute (Duitsland Instituut/DIA) and the Instituut voor Culture and History (ICG) of the UvA.
She first came to Amsterdam with a Research Grand of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2007. She was associated researcher and later researcher at the DIA. Previously, she worked as a study coordinator and Erasmus coordinator at the Center for Dutch studies at the University of Münster for the bilateral bachelor-master program Dutch-German-studies of the University of Münster and Nijmegen (2004-2007). During her studies she has worked as an assistant to Prof. Dr. Friso Wielenga, director at the Center for Dutch studies.
She taught a course on German history at the UvA in 2009 for students of the Minor Germany Studies and several courses on the history of European integration at the University of Münster to students of the bilateral bachelor-master program Dutch-German-studies of the University of Münster and Nijmegen in 2006 and 2007.
She got an inside view of what later would become her research interest during her internships at the European Parliament in 2001 and an internship at the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) in 1996.
She is mother of two lovely daughters, Emma en Josefine.
Germany Institute University of Amsterdam (DIA)
Center for Dutch studies Münster
Research interests
Modern and contemporary German history
Modern and contemporary Dutch history
German-Dutch relations
History of European Integration
Transnational history
Printed publications
"Entscheidung für Europa. Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die Niederlande und die Anfänge des Europäischen Integrationsprozesses", in: Forschungsberichte des Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam 2010 (forthcoming).
"Die Niederlande im Europäischen Integrationsprozess seit 1945", in: Friso Wielenga/Markus Wilp (eds.), Nachbar Niederlande. Eine landeskundliche Einführung (Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung NRW, Münster-Aschendorf Verlag 2007) 207-238.
"Niederländische Europapolitik und europäische Integration von der Unterzeichnung der Römischen Verträge bis zum Ende des Kalten Krieges", in: Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Niederlande-Studien 15-2004 (Münster 2005) 222-227.
Book review: Esther Kramer, Europäisches oder atlantisches Europa? Kontinuität und Wandel in den Verhandlungen über eine politische Union 1958-1970 (Baden-Baden 2003), in: Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Niederlande-Studien 2004, 15 (Münster 2005) 250-255.
Nachbar Niederlande
Online publications
Duitsland breekt met Europapolitieke tradities. Ulrike Guérot en John Vinocur over de Duitse 'Alleingang', www.duitslandweb.nl (11.4.2011)
Die Niederlande in der Welt – Aussenpolitik zwischen Multilateralismus und nationalen Interessen, www.niederlandenet.de (2008).
Europäische Integration – Die Niederlande in Europa, www.niederlandenet.de (2007).
Van ver gekomen. Berlijn viert vijftig jaar Europa . Europadossier van het Duitslandweb. (2007).
Die Niederlande in der Welt
Die Niederlande in Europa
Van ver gekomen
Duitsland breekt met Europapolitieke tradities