prof. dr. M.P.A. (Mirjam) de Baar

University Education
2004 Doctoral degree (cum laude) in Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen
Title Dissertation: 'Ik moet spreken'. het spirituele leiderschap van Antoinette Bourignon (1616-1680) (‘I must speak’. The spiritual leadership of Antoinette Bourignon (1616-1680)
Promotors: prof.dr. W.Th.M. Frijhoff (VU University, Amsterdam) and prof.dr. J.N. Bremmer (University of Groningen)
1987 Master (cum laude) in History (doctoraalexamen), University of Utrecht (Early Modern History, Renaissance Studies, Histo-Information Science, Historiography)
Thesis about Jean de Labadie and his following (1669-1732) (in 1988 awarded with the Werner Kaegi-prize of the Foundation Praemium Erasmianum)
Academic Career
Professor of the Cultural History of Early Modern Christianity, with a special emphasis on the Religious History of the Netherlands in its International Context, February 1, 2011-date
Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity and Gender Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, January 1, 2010-February 1, 2011
Professor (Endowed Chair: Zwinglibond) of the History and Principles of Unitarianism, October 1, 2009-2015
Lecturer in the History of Christianity and Gender Studies, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, August 1989-January 2010
Visiting scholar Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, The Netherlands, February-July 1998
Research Trainee, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, November 1987-August 1989
Lecturer of the Year 2009, see http://www.rug.nl/ggw/nieuws/2009/0909DvhJ09
Supervision PhD students
Sibbe Jan Visser (PhD 2010 promotor), Michael Green (PhD 2013, promotor), Joanna Serrado (PhD 2014, promotor), Lia Nunes, Iris Busschers, Joas van der Schoot, Jan-Adriaan Schlebusch, Tom-Eric Krijger, Sytse Hofstee
Service to the Faculty
Vice-dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen, August 1, 2006-2015
Faculty Board, Portfolio Education, August 1, 2006-2015
Faculty Director of Studies, August 1, 2006-2015
Advisory Committee Major-Minor Bachelor Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, chair, 2005-January 2007
Member of Appointment Committees (endowed chairs, full professorships, senior lecturers, lecturers, PhD students)
Vice-chair of the Faculty Council (2003-2006)
Chair of the Faculty Council (2002-2003)
Member of the Board of Education Religious Studies (1998-2002)
Service to the University of Groningen
Member of the Universitaire Commissie voor het Onderwijs (UCO) (2008-2015)
Member of the Commissie Onderwijsstrategie (2012-2015)
Member of the Steering Group Learning Communities (since 2015)
Chair of the Steering Group Employability (2014-2015)
Member of Appointment Committees
Service to the Profession
Vice-chair of the Supervisory Board of the Central Bureau for Genealogy, The Hague (Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie), 2012-date
Member of the Board of the Netherlandish Society for Seventeenth-Century Studies (Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw), 2005-date
Member of the Board of the Dutch Society of Church History (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kerkgeschiedenis), 2005-date
Member of the Advisory Committee on History and Arts (Adviescommissie Geschiedenis en Letteren) of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, 2014-date
Member of the Board of Directors of the 'Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen' (PUG), 2007-2011
Editorial responsibilities
Ashgate Series Universal Reform: Studies in Intellectual History, 1550-1700 (since 2015)
Trajecta. religie, cultuur en samenleving in de Nederlanden / Religion, Culture and Society in the Low Countries Member of the Editorial Board, 2014-date) Nederland (Member of the Editorial Board, 2004-date)
De zeventiende eeuw. Cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief (Member of the Editorial Board, 2004-date, and Executive Editor, 2004-date)
Memberships
Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities
Ecclesiastical History Society
International Federation for Research in Women's History
Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde
Historisch Platform
Kerkhistorisch Gezelschap
Gezelschap van Christelijke Historici in Nederland
Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen
Vereniging voor Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis
Vereniging voor Gendergeschiedenis
Vereniging het Spinozahuis
Vrouwengeschiedenis van de vroegmoderne tijd
Werkgroep De Zeventiende Eeuw
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