Alexandra van Dijk - van der Moolen

Alexandra holds a MA in Roman Archaeology from the VU University Amsterdam.
She started working as a field archaeologist and Head of Documentation for Leiden University. She worked as a Manager Business Development for 7 years, at The Archaeological Service Centre. Since 2006 she’s part of an NGO (Common Ground) on international knowledge exchange regarding (archaeological) cultural heritage abroad. The team is currently working on a project for a large archaeological site in Morocco, Lixus.
From 2006 until recently Alexandra worked for KIT Royal Tropical Institute as a Coordinator Business Development.
In 2007 Alexandra has started consultancy services in international heritage management, archaeology and business development (www.heritageInternational.nl).

Anne Feenstra

Anne Feenstra is a Dutch architect living and working in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is owner of AFIR Architects and related to Kabul University. Anne is the local representative of CIE in Afghanistan and works with his team on the renovation of the National Museum and manages the renovation of the Bagh-e-Jahan nama Palacein Khulm. 

Annemarie Willems

Annemarie Willems holds a MA in Cultural Heritage from the University of Utrecht. Her Masters thesis was titled 'A hyper real National Historical Museum', researching the role of hyper reality within the National Historical Museum.
For the CIE she is mostly engaged in the heritage fields of Suriname and Brazil. For these countries she orgnanised heritage days in the Netherlands and abroad.

Anouk Fienieg

Anouk Fienieg is a historian and heritage expert. As Deputy Director of the CIE she is responsible for the strategy, management, impact, effectiveness and sustainability of all running projects. She manages a team of ca. fifteen staff members and volunteers in Leiden. She is responsible for project proposals, project reports, human resource management, finances, and the content of the Mutual Heritage Research Programme, which contains inter alia an analysis of the mutual heritage policy of the Netherlands (overview of activities, stakeholder analyses, SWOT, intercultural cooperation etc).  She is used to work under difficult circumstances to meet strict deadlines in post-conflict countries and fragile states.  Her particular areas of research are heritage policies; heritage and identity; stakeholder analyses of heritage creation, interpretation and management processes; history of the European expansion; and migration history.

Anouk graduated cum laude on the Dutch Mutual Cultural Heritage policy. As part of her masters in Cultural Heritage she worked as a trainee at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, where she collaborated on a museum project in Indonesia and assisted in the organization of an international project meeting. For the museum project she wrote the report 'The History of Sintang. A collection of books, articles and manuscripts' published in 2007. Before her MA in Heritage Studies Anouk studied History at the University of Amsterdam. She graduated with a MA thesis on Catholic Migration during the Dutch Revolt in 2004.

Contact: + 31 (0)71 5168890 - info@heritage-activities.nl

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Arnout van Rhijn

Arnout van Rhijn switched after his BA in Archaeology at Leiden University to the MA Heritage Studies at the VU University Amsterdam, focusing for his theses on multicultural heritage in conflict areas. Because of his interest in heritage and its economical aspects, archaeology, tourism and local communities, he also took the MA program Archaeological Heritage Management at Leiden University. For which he participated in the Robben Island Field School. He did research and wrote his thesis on the presentation of different heritage layers at Robben Island, South Africa.

Read here the student experiences on the Robben Island Fieldschool blog.... 

For the CIE he will be studying investments in heritage and heritage tourism, as well as the best way to include local communities in this process, with a focus on Sri Lanka.

Bert Zandbergen

Bert Zandbergen holds an MA in Social Sciences after which he spent his working life working in IT. On retiring he went back to Leiden University this time taking up Archaeology and History. Dendrochronogy was the subject of his bachelor thesis, currently Bert is working on the water supply of the Eastindiamen. Involved in the Robben Island project he is deeply interested in all things nautical.

Bill Jeffery

From 2001, Bill has been employed as a contract maritime archaeologist with the Federated States of Micronesia Historic Preservation Office and has initiated projects in Chuuk, Yap and Pohnpei. Beginning in 2006, he has co-led Earthwatch volunteers in a project to record the natural and cultural values and health of Chuuk Lagoon’s submerged WWII sites. From 1981 to 2001, Bill worked as the Principal Maritime Officer with Heritage South Australia, Department of Environment and Heritage where he implemented a Maritime Heritage Program. His work in maritime archaeology has included sites in other parts of Micronesia (in Guam) as well as in New Zealand, China, Finland, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong. In 1990 in China, Bill assisted with the maritime archaeology training of a number of Chinese archaeologists. In Hong Kong, his work involves the implementation of Marine Archaeology Investigations (MAI) which are required by Hong Kong law and since 2001, Bill has implemented 15 MAI. He has written over 60 articles and a number of reports on maritime archaeology, sites and issues. In March 2008, he successfully completed his PhD thesis on the Chuuk Lagoon submerged WWII sites, from James Cook University (JCU) in Queensland, Australia. He teaches part time at JCU and has conducted maritime archaeology field schools with JCU and the University of Guam, in addition to being the primary lecturer in the UNESCO sponsored ’Train the Trainers’ field school in Galle in Sri Lanka in 2006. As follow-up of this programme he has been involved in the development of other Maritime Archaeological Project of the Centre for International Heritage Activities.

Christine van der Pijl - Ketel

Christine van der Pijl-Ketel holds a BA in Japanese from the University of Leiden and a MA in Art History and Archeology of East Asia form the University of Amsterdam.At the moment she is an independent scholar, who undertakes research on Chinese export porcelain for the Dutch market. In the past years she has been researching the export porcelain bound for Portugal and the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, and in 2003 worked on a project, based in Galle in Sri Lanka, documenting the ceramics found in the VOC ship the Avondster. Christine published articles on the subject of ceramics and gives many lectures.
Christine is connected to the Centre for International Heritage Activities as a free lance advice-consultant. She is also involved in setting up the documentation and archive area of the CIE. This will be part of the research department of the CIE and become an important part of the website.

Dr. K.D. Paranavitana

Professor Dr. K.D. Paranavitana is currently employed at the Department of Humanities of the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka in Mihintale. He published an extensive amount of books and articles on the Dutch presence in Sri Lanka. His Ph. D. thesis (1994) is titled ‘The archives of the Dutch East India Company administration in Ceylon 1640 – 1796’. He is also engaged in consultancy and scriptwriting for documentary films on World Heritage Sites in Sri Lanka. He has gained experience in leadership in academic and administrative matters and experience in administration of academic and other institutions, research groups and professional societies on a. o. archives, and conservation and preservation of cultural and heritage sites. He has worked a total of 26 years in higher management positions at the National Archives of Sri Lanka. In the course of his professional career Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Kingdom of the Netherlands appointed him as a Knight of the order of Oranje-Nassau in 2002. In addition to this he received several special academic and professional awards.

Dr. Robert Parthesius

Robert Parthesius is director of CIE and appointed  as Associate Professor in the Historical-Archaeology of the European Expansion at the University of Leiden. He is a maritime historian and archaeologist.

Robert Parthesius works since the 1980’s on the interface between history and archaeology of the maritime history and European expansion. He holds a doctorate of the history of the European expansion from the University of Amsterdam.
Till 1995 he was coordinating the research for the reconstruction project on the VOC-ship Batavia in Lelystad. This work was the basis for a fruitful cooperation with the Western Australian Maritime Museum. In 1997 he organized the exhibition: ‘From Hartog to the Vlamingh’ covering the Dutch explorations of Australia. He was involved in various maritime archaeological projects. Most important was the Galle Harbour Project in Sri Lanka 1992-1999.

Since 1999 he has coordinated the cooperation between The Netherlands and Sri Lanka in the field of Mutual Heritage. This cooperation resulted in the establishment of a Mutual Heritage Centre in Sri Lanka 2000. From this centre various Sri Lankan-Dutch projects cultural heritage projects have been carried out.

From 1998 till 2005 he was appointed as curator of the Amsterdam Historical Museum. Convinced of the importance of Public Awareness for historical-archaeological research he organized international exhibitions on the European-Asian cultural relations in the 17th and 18th centuries, and published various books and articles on various aspects of the Dutch maritime history.

His ambition to establish infrastructure for maritime archaeology in Asia, as part of a culture and development programme, was materialized in the Avondster-project in the Bay of Galle through which a Maritime Archaeological Unit has been trained and established in Sri Lanka since 2001.
In 2005 he took the initiative to establish the Netherlands Centre for International Heritage Activities

Robert Parthesius lectures Historical-Archaeology of the European expansion at the University of Leiden and is currently involved in Maritime Archaeological Programmes in Tanzania and South Africa.

Contact: + 31 (0)71 5168890 - info@heritage-activities.nl

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Eva Koppen

Eva Koppen holds a MA in Museum Studies, a MA in History and a BA in Art History, all from the University of Amsterdam. She graduated cum laude on a combined thesis on Dutch writers’ houses as lieux de memoire. At the moment she is completing her BA Slavonic Languages and Cultures. Both in the Netherlands and Russia she worked on various exhibitions about Russian history, art and culture. Eva runs her own organization ProMu for research, advice and project management for museums and cultural heritage. She works for the Netherlands Institute Saint Petersburg (NIP) as project coordinator for exhibitions of Dutch art in Russia. For the CIE Eva works on the organization of two Heritage Days Russia and different heritage projects in Russia.

Fleur Cools

''The dynamics of cultural heritage and international cooperation is all about the exchange of ideas and opinions.''

Fleur Cools studied Philosophy and Science of Dynamics (Wetenschapsdynamica) at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 2006 with a BA in Cultural Studies (Algemene Cultuurwetenschappen). Her Master Thesis for Heritage Studies at the University of Amsterdam is on ‘Heritage Discourses on the Dutch Antillean island Sint Eustatius.’ Her research interests and expertise lay in the heritage field of the Dutch Antilles, cultural landscapes, spatial planning and monument care. She has an interdisciplinary approach.

Fleur is project coordinator and head communication.

For the CIE she organized, amongst others, the Lecture Series ‘Dutch Manhattan 1609 – 2009’ at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam to celebrate the Henry Hudson Year. In 2008 she organized in cooperation with the National Restoration Fund the ‘Expert meeting: a shared history – a shared today: monument care in development on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba’. She developed the new CIE website. At the moment she is working on the development of the Mutual Cultural Heritage Database and other heritage databases.

Contact: + 31 (0)71 5168890 - info@heritage-activities.nl

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Frank Uiterwaal

From a deep fascination for what shapes 'imagined communities' Frank Uiterwaal underwent a shifting interest from, consecutively, history (bachelors degree) to political culture (masters degree in cultural history) to, in conclusion, heritage studies. As a former student at the Radboud University in Nijmegen and, recently, at the University of Amsterdam, he has a special interest in the way cultural practices and political power interact (the culture of power and the power of culture) and, more recently, heritagetourism as a form of potential intercultural dialogue.

For the CIE, Frank will provide the database on mutual cultural heritage with additional theoretical and analytical depth by embedding local developments in heritagepractices within specific global contexts, for example: tourism, colonialism, ownership, and the degree of mutuality."

Freek van Kessel

Freek van Kessel holds a BA degree in Cultural Heritage from the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam. He wrote his BA thesis on the changes in function and meaning of botanical gardens throughout history.
At this moment he is following the Museology master's degree program at the Reinwardt Academy. For the CIE Freek is currently working on the upcoming ANCODS traveling exhibition in Australia.

Geerte Wachter

She works as a policy officer for Museum and Heritage Policies at Province of Utrecht. Previously she worked as a Senior Programme Coordinator for the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development in the Netherlands. She studied Philosophy at the Universities of Nijmegen and Amsterdam. Before joining the Prince Claus Fund she was a publisher at Van Gennep Publishers, a literary and non fiction publishing house in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Gerda Kuiper

Gerda Kuiper holds a BA in Notarial Law and a BA and MA in Cultural Anthrolopogy from Leiden University.  For her MA-thesis about land tenure, she performed research in Lindi region in Tanzania. Since then, she helds a special interest in that region. After finishing her MA, Gerda therefore decided to go back to Lindi  for a period of three months to volunteer as a project manager for the Dutch foundation Ukengee. This foundation provides secondary schools in Lindi region – including one in Kilwa Masoko – with computer labs.

For the CIE, Gerda will study the connections between the inhabitants of Kilwa, Tanzania and the maritime and underwater sites surrounding them, and in what ways the community can be engaged in the conservation of these sites.

Hanna Leijen

Hanna Leijen holds a MA in Cultural Heritage from the University of Amsterdam and a MA in History from the University of Utrecht. In Utrecht she completed a study on the social patterns of early Christian grave tablets. In Amsterdam she graduated cum laude on an article on the development of the Roman border in the Netherlands (limes) as a cultural heritage site. 
For the CIE she coordinates the Afghanistan Culture and Development programme for the National Museum in Kabul and the Bagh-e Jehan Nama Palace in Kholm. Besides this she has organized heritage days for the heritage fields of Indonesia, Suriname and South-Africa. Other priority countries for the Netherlands are on the agenda.

Contact: + 31 (0)71 5168890 - info@heritage-activities.nl

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Julie Trébault

Julie Trébault holds a MA in Cultural Management from the University of Paris La Sorbonne and a MA in Archeology from the University of Strasbourg (France). From 2004 until 2007, she was appointed as a Head of higher education and scientific events in the Research Department at the Musée du quai Branly (Paris). In this position she organized the museum courses and scientific events at all levels including the academic foundation, budget management and actual event coordination. This position allowed her to develop a broad network in both the academic and museum worlds.

For the CIE she coordinates the museums branch. She is in charge of an international cooperative project named “The Virtual Collection of Masterpieces” (VCM). The VCM has developed into an impressive online project, where museums share their collections and knowledge and present these to the general public world-wide. With more than 90 European and Asian museums and 1900 Asian Masterpieces, it is a unique database and the most comprehensive museum cooperation network on-line.

Koosje Spitz

Koosje Spitz holds a Bachelor Degree in History from the university of Groningen and partially at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik. She wrote her bachelor thesis on the theory of the art historian Erwin Panofsky on the proto-Renaissance and legacy of the twelfth century Abbot Suger. In December 2010 she completed her MA in World Heritage Studies at the UNESCO chair for Heritage Studies at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, Germany. In her thesis ‘Toward a More Collaborative Approach; A study on the mutuality of colonial heritage and alternative means of dispute resolution’ she focused on recent developments in international cultural heritage law and the need for alternative means of dispute resolution in conflicts on cultural properties that originated or have been transferred under colonial ruling.

After her internships at the Centre for International Heritage Activities (CIE) in Leiden and the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to UNESCO in Paris, she started working as junior staff member at the CIE in January 2011. She will be establishing a database with information on the Australian Dutch heritage cooperation. This project will be conducted in close collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Canberra, Australia.

From January until the beginning of June Koosje will be Acting Adjunct Director of the CIE. 

Laurens Jansen

Laurens got involved in numerous archaeological fieldwork projects in the Near East. During his studies he got interested in studying cultural interactions through maritime connections. He Participated in 2011 in the Robben Island fieldschool and the Much training.

For CIE Laurens will be working on various maritime projects and finding access solutions to MUCH datacollections.
 

Linn Borghuis

Linn Borghuis holds a BA in Cultural Heritage from the Reinwardt Academie in Amsterdam. In June 2008 she graduated on her BA thesis titled 'Digitalization in countries of development', in which Dutch cultural policies in line with cultural heritage institutions and the difficulties in digitalization are evaluated.
 For CIE she is Freelance working on the repatriation of the ANCODS collection to Australia. Linn runs her own organization, Cultural Motion, for example in advice, project management, digitization projects, and evaluation projects.

Madeleine Braakman

Madeleine holds a BA in Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam. As part of her MA Heritage Studies at the University of Amsterdam, she will be working as an intern at the CIE.

For the CIE Madeleine will be examining the Dutch-Ghanaian mutual cultural heritage. Based on this research, a heritage day will be organized both in the Netherlands and in Ghana in the second half of 2012. On this day, experts get to inform each other about their activities concerning Ghana and get to connect with each other. The outcomes of the inventory and the heritage day will be used for a recommendation for a mutual heritage programme for governmental policymakers. 

Marcella van Schie

Marcella van Schie studied History (BA) at VU University in Amsterdam. Whilst studying in York, UK, for a semester, she became interested in Public History. Public History is an area of study that is relatively new to the Netherlands. Its main focus is to present history to a wide audience in a fun and interesting, but responsible way. It aims to make historical research more accessible by 'translating' it to a product. This can be done in many forms, such as books (fiction and non-fiction), exhibitions and documentaries, but also websites, walking tours of a historic city and even games.

In 2008 she started her MA degree in Public History at the University of Amsterdam. In 2009 she studied Public History during a semester in North Carolina, US, at Appalachian State University. Currently, she is writing her thesis on the subject of Dutch colonial history in travel guides.

For the CIE, she is researching heritage tourism.

Martine Gosselink

Martine Gosselink holds a MA in Art History from the University of Amsterdam. She started her career as cultural enterpriser. Martine runs a cultural organization together with 3 partners called De Nieuwe Collectie (The New Collection). Her daily occupation consists of making concepts of, and putting together exhibitions. Making concepts of films and texts for films, multimedia and publications is also part of her work.Occasionally, her projects are self-initiated (www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl), but usually Martine works for museums, embassies and ministries in the Netherlands as well as in other countries. A recent example is: the exhibition ‘New Amsterdam. Island at the Center of the World’ which will be held in New York in 2009, commissioned by the National Archives of the Netherlands.
Since February 2009 Martine is also Head of the History department of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Martine is connected to the CIE as museum expert. She wrote an advice report on the establishment of a new Maritime museum in Galle, Sri Lanka, wherein planning, contents, routing and organizational structure was studied and advised. She takes part in other CIE projects such as the refurbishment of the National Museum in Afghanistan.

Menno Leenstra

Menno Leenstra holds a MA in Physics from the University of Groningen. During and after his studies, he worked as a sailing instructor until recently. From 1985, he took part in the project of the building of the replica of the return ship Batavia, specializing in the research of ships’ rigging. Since 1997, he is a researcher in archives and literature for projects, which are connected to 17th century shipping, for example the ships  Duyfken, Avondster, 7 Provinciën and VOC-locations like Ayutthaya, Taiwan and Robben Island. His expertise on this knowledge and capabilities (e.g. paleography) are essential inputs for the CIE.

Miranda Vos

Until the mid-eighties Miranda Vos was an entrepreneur running the children’s store Little Nemo in Amsterdam. In the early 1990s she entered the world of television working at IDTV on the production of programmes such as Le Fort Boyard (France), Lingo, Triviant and Connaisseur. In 1997 Miranda moved on to John de Mol Productions to set up and maintain the intranet. Outside of work she has a passion for good food and cooking, an interest she shares professionally by giving cooking lessons. From 2002 until mid-2007 Miranda was involved in the Avondster Project. She was involved in the logistics, finances and the general back-up on location in Sri Lanka. Her current role at the Centre for International Heritage Activities is the design and building of the website, dtp and graphical support.

Niranyana Jayamary

Niranyana Jayamary is a passionate photographer that specializes in capturing social involvement. With her portrait photo’s, photo reports, documentaries, and photo projects she wants to contribute to the documentation of the development of people, cultures and rituals in a changing world. Nirayana has made some photos for CIE, but is principally active as an external adviser.

Saskia Steur

Saskia Steur, Volunteer

Saskia holds a MA in Public Archaeology from the University of London. She has a broad interest in the field of Public Archaeology and the Heritage sector, but especially on how the archaeological and historical information is presented to the public and to what extent the (indigenous) community is involved.

For the CIE she has assisted on the Cultural Heritage Connections platform, with an emphasis on its user friendliness. After its launch she studied on the use of social media in the field of heritage: in what way can social media be used for better cooperation between different (international) heritage organisations and projects; and how the Internet can be used to connect various heritage projects, sites and studies.

Thijs Coenen

Thijs Coenen holds a MA in archaeology and heritage management from Leiden University. He focussed his research and thesis on the effects of capacity building programs and the management of underwater cultural heritage.

During his master he participated in the Robben Island Field School, and the MUCH training project, both on Robben Island.
 
For the CIE Thijs will be working with different maritime archaeological training projects.

Contact: + 31 (0)71 5168890 - info@heritage-activities.nl

Trilce Navarrete

Trilce Navarrete Hernández holds a MA in Cultural Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MA in Museum Management from the University of Oregon.
Trilce is currently a PhD researcher and lecturer at the Cultural Information Science program, at the University of Amsterdam where she investigates the evolution of systems to access cultural heritage in the Netherlands.She further collaborates with CIE as researcher and coordinator of projects that revolve around digital heritage collections.

Wang Yu

Wang Yu is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology of University of Leiden (supervised by prof. dr. Willem Willems, dr. Robert Parthesius and dr. Bill Jeffery). Her thesis entitiled "Essays on the maritime archaeology of power and conflict: the lost Dutch armed merchantmen in the Taiwan Strait, c. 1622-1661", is a historical archaeological understanding of the 17th-century Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipwrecks from the VOC archives. Yu has a MBA (1996, Leeds University) and a MSocSci (2006, James Cook University) specializing in maritime archaeology and underwater cultural heritage. Her past fieldwork involved different area of waters, including Micronesia in 2006 (Diving World War II Wrecks of Truk Lagoon: Investigating The Cultural and Natural Values of The Truk Lagoon World War II Underwater Sites) and France in 2007 (Epave de la Natière II Excavation). She also helped out a series of government projects (Archaeological Investigation of Potential Shipwreck in Penghu Port Makung, Underwater Cultural Heritage Research and Conservation Training Project, Penghu Underwater Archaeological Investigation Project Phase I and Phase II) in Taiwan from 2006 to 2009.