FACULTY PROFILES

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Jeroen Dewulf

Jeroen Dewulf became incumbent of the Queen Beatrix Chair in 2007. He graduated in Dutch and German Philology at the University of Ghent, in Belgium. He holds Master's degrees in Comparative Literature and Portuguese Studies from the University of Porto, in Portugal, and a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of Bern, in Switzerland. He has taught Dutch Studies, German Cultural History and Comparative Literature in Portugal (Universidade do Minho, Universidade do Porto) and Brazil (Universidade Federal do Ceará, Universidade de São Paulo) and was visiting professor at the University of Antwerp. His areas of specialization are European Studies, particularly related to multicultural citizenship in the Low Countries, and Postcolonial Studies, in particular Dutch, and Portuguese colonial history and literature, as well as issues related to migration, race and hybridity. He has also focused on contemporary Swiss literature, publishing a monograph on the Swiss writer Hugo Loetscher (Peter Lang Verlag, 1999) and editing a collection of essays on the same author (Diogenes Verlag, 2005). He recently published a work on Brazil: Brasilien mit Brüchen (Neue Zürcher Zeitung Verlag, 2007). He is member of the MLA Executive Committee of Netherlandic Studies, affiliated member of the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley and member of the Executive Council of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies as well as the Netherlands America University League. For his scholarly service, he was distinguished, in 1999, with the Quality Seal for Innovating Initiatives in the Field of Foreign Language Education by the European Union and in 2007, he was awarded by the Cultural Foundation of the Swiss UBS-Bank.
jdewulf@berkeley.edu

Inez Hollander

Inez Hollander, a native from the Netherlands, received her Ph.D. in English in 1995 from the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She holds Master's degrees from Leicester University in Great Britain and Leiden University in the Netherlands. In the last fifteen years she has taught language, literature and creative writing classes in a wide variety of academic and community settings. Besides being the Dutch translator of the John Adams Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston), she has been an author, publishing in the Netherlands as well as the States. Her publications include a biography (The Road from Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso, Louisiana State University Press, 1999) and a memoir, entitled Ontwaken uit de Amerikaanse droom (Archipel/Imprint Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 2004). Her latest book, Silenced Voices: The Uncovering of a Colonial Family's History in the Dutch East Indies, was published in 2008 by Ohio University Press. Holland also sits on the Board of the Netherland-America Foundation in New York City and she is the Chair of the Netherland-America Business Exchange Innovation Program. ihollander@berkeley.edu

Thomas F. Shannon

Thomas F. Shannon, Professor of Germanic Linguistics, member of the Dutch Studies Program faculty, and former director of the UC exchange program in Germany, has been in our department since 1980. He holds Master's degrees in German (SUNY Albany) and Theoretical Linguistics (Indiana) and a Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics (Indiana). His areas of specialization are modern German and Dutch, particularly syntax and phonology, and he has published widely on a variety of topics, including naturalness, syllable structure, complementation and control, ergative phenomena, passivization, perfect auxiliary selection, and word order. He is particularly interested in functional and cognitive approaches, e.g. the affects of various semantic, pragmatic, and processing factors on syntactic phenomena. Working from actual texts, he is presently studying several word order phenomena in Dutch and German, especially the ordering of elements in the middle field as well as historical change in West Germanic, including Afrikaans, Low German, and Yiddish. Shannon has taught and conducted research in the Netherlands at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on a Fulbright grant and researched at the Institut für deutsche Sprache in Mannheim. Active professionally, he serves on MLA Executive Committees, the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Germanic Linguistics, and the Executive Committee of the American Association of Netherlandic Studies (AANS), and was formerly Vice President of the Society for Germanic Philology. He is also editor of the AANS Publications series, and co-editor with Johan Snapper of the Berkeley Conference on Dutch Literature and Linguistics series.
tshannon@berkeley.edu

EM. Prof. Johan P. Snapper

Professor Snapper did his Graduate work in Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Chicago (M.A.) and the University of California at Los Angeles (Ph.D.). He specializes in eighteenth-century German literature and modern Netherlandic literature. In addition to his doctoral dissertation (on Friedrich Maximilian Klinger) his publications include six books and more than fifty scholarly articles. One of his monographs deals with the work of the controversial Dutch writer Gerard Reve, while his most recent study (The Ways of Marga Minco) is a book on the Dutch writer Marga Minco, best known for her novels and short stories on the Jewish persecution in the Netherlands. Professor Snapper is on the Editorial Board of a number of publications, including the Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies (PAANS), the Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies (CJNS) and De Nederlandse Taal. Among national and international offices he has held are the presidency of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, membership on the executive board of the International Association for Netherlandics (IVN), and the chair of the Netherlands International Commission on Higher Education for Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Rumania. He is also the organizer of eight international conferences on Dutch linguistics and literature and the founder of the Netherlands-America University League. For his scholarly and community service, Professor Snapper received a Congressional Citation of Merit (USA), and he has been knighted as Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau (the Netherlands) and Officer in the Order of the Crown (Belgium). He also serves as the honorary consul of the Netherlands for northern California. Professor Snapper was presented with a Festschrift, Vantage Points, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Queen Beatrix Chair. snapper@berkeley.edu

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Jeffrey Hadler

Jeffrey Hadler, Ph.D. Cornell University (History) 2000. Assistant Professor in South & Southeast Asian Studies. Jeffrey Hadler teaches about the history and culture of Southeast Asia with a focus on Indonesia. His dissertation, "Places Like Home: Islam, Matriliny, and the History of Family in Minangkabau," is an ethnographic history of a Sumatran community in the 19th and early 20th centuries. His current research is a history of Jews in the Malay world and an analysis of anti-Semitism and violence in modern Indonesia. His publications include essays on ideas of fatherhood and succession in Indonesia, and representations of African-American voice in America. He has held grants from Fulbright, the SSRC, Charlotte Newcombe, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
hadler@berkeley.edu

Elizabeth Alice Honig was obsessed from an early age by anything to do with her namesake, Elizabeth I. An undergraduate career at Bryn Mawr, where she served as Costumes Mistress to the annual Elizabethan May Day celebrations, confirmed this inclination. She worked at Hampton Court Palace and then went to Yale. There, her secondary fascination with shopping lead to a change in direction and she wrote her dissertation on Flemish market scenes and the history of economic thought. She lived in Amsterdam for many years, where she could listen to English radio while studying the art of Belgium. A brief period of museum work there ended in complete disaster, and since then she has been back in America teaching art history. In 1996 she abandoned the Atlantic seaboard and came to Berkeley, where she began working on the art of Jan Brueghel, son of the more famous Pieter. Through Brueghel she has become interested in issues of copying, originality, artistic collaboration, and historical techniques of painting; narrative, scale, style, and the notion of the Baroque. Her graduate students work on a diverse range of topics in the arts of The Netherlands, Spain and Germany; they study painting, prints, architecture and urban planning; violence, propaganda, devotion, and failure. They travel and publish a lot, and she alternately encourages, bullies, and feeds them. Elizabeth Honig's ultimate goal is to truly understand Rubens. She also has pursued a major project in former Soviet Central Asia.
eahonig@berkeley.edu

Mia Mochizuki

Mia Mochizuki is the Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Assistant Professor of Art History and Religion at the Jesuit School of Theology and Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. She joined the faculty in 2005 after teaching in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. Her particular areas of interest are early Netherlandish, Reformation and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. She has published on iconoclasm, seventeenth-century Dutch religious art and the religious artifacts of exploration. Her book on the early Dutch Reformed Church is forthcoming.
mmochizuki@jstb.edu

Jan de Vries