Area of expertise 

• Political system and  political culture of Germany
• Political system and political culture of the Netherlands 
• The European Union 
• Modern and contemporary German history 
• Modern and contemporary Dutch history 
• German-Dutch relations 
• History of European Integration 
• Transnational history

Partners in Europe? Dutch-German Relations and European Integration between 1945 and 1973

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 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.

Supervisor: Ton Nijhuis (DIA)

• Member of the DAAD financed Graduate School of the Germany Intitute Amsterdam (Graduiertenkolleg DIA)

• Member of the Research School Political History/Onderzoeksschool Politieke geschiedenis (OPG)

• Member of the Research Institute and Graduate School for Cultural History (Huizinga Instituut)

• board member of the Arbeitskreis Deutsch-Niederländische Geschichte (ADNG)/Werkgroep Duits-Nederlandse geschiedenis (WDNG)

Conference organisation

• 9-2013 organisation of the 5th annual conference of the 'Arbeitskreis deutsch-niederländische Geschichte-Werkgroep Duits-Nederlandse geschiedenis' in Amsterdam 'Mittler, Verflechting, Netwerken. Duitsland en Nederland in de 20ste eeuw/Mittler-Verflechtung-Netzwerke. Deutschland und die Niederlande im 20. Jahrhundert (proceedings, CfP)
• 9-2013 organisation DIA-Graduiertenkolleg 'Die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen, ein Modell für Europa?',  in collaboration with Université du Luxembourg en het Goethe-Institut Paris and Dieter Heimböckel (Luxemburg), Ulrich Pfeil (Metz), Corine Defrance (Parijs),Heinz Sieburg, Joachim Umlauf, (Parijs), Marleen Rensen (Amsterdam), Ton Nijhuis, Nicole Colin, Hanco Jürgens, Britta Bendieck (DIA). (Proceedings)
• 1-2013 organisation of the DIA-Graduiertenkolleg 'Die soziale Marktwirtschaft und Europa', guests: Werner Abelshauser (Bielefeld), Erwin Dekker en Martijn Lak (EUR) in collaboration with Hanco Jürgens (DIA).

• 12-2012 participation in the organisation of the 'Workshop New Political History and the European Union', December 14th 2012, Faculty of Arts Department Radboud University Nijmegen, Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, Montesquieu Institute The Hague in collaboration with Wim Meurs, Remieg Aerts (Nijmegen) and Hanco Jürgens (DIA).
• 03-2011 organisation of the DIA Graduiertenkolleg: 'Nieuwe onderzoeken over Europa. De geschiedenis van de Europese Unie vanuit nieuwe perspectieven', guests: Wolfram Kaiser (Portsmouth), Robin de Bruin (UvA) in participation with Hanco Jürgens (DIA).
• 04-2010 organisation of the DIA-Graduiertenkolleg ' Europäisierung wider Willen' with Kiran Klaus Patel (Maastricht) and Hanco Jürgens (DIA) in collaboration with Montesquieu Institute The Hague.

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 2004. She is currently writing her PhD thesis at the Germany Institute (Duitsland Instituut/DIA) and the Instituut for Culture and History (ICG) of the UvA.

She first came to Amsterdam with a Research Grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2007. She then started her work at the Germany Insitute of the UvA (Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, DIA) as an associated researcher. Since 2008 she is member of the academic staff at the DIA.

Previously, she worked as a study coordinator and Erasmus coordinator at the Center for Dutch studies at the University of Münster (Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien) 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.

Grants

• Research Grant Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
• European Summer Course, Europe and European Integration: More than ever a Question of War and Peace (Gustav-Stresemann Institut e.V.) with a grant of the University of Münster

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