Prof. M.E.B. Derks (Marjet)

Professor emeritus - Department of History, Art History and Classics
Professor emeritus - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

Chair: Sports History

Contact

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Teaches and publishes on sports history, contested sport heritage, and cultural meanings of the body in motion.
Another field of expertise is that of religious history, particularly religion and gender, religious institutes and their role in modernity.
A third line of research is regional history.

Tags: 19th and 20th century cultural history, history of sport, religion and gender history, regional studies

Publications

Key publications

Derks, M.E.B. (2019). Building Bodies. Transnational Historical Approaches to Sport, Gender and Ethnicities. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis, 38, 9-23.
Derks, M.E.B. (2019). Competition, sportification and Dutch decency. Sport ambiguities in the Netherlands in the long 20th century. In N. Piercey & S.J. Oldfield (Eds.), Sporting Cultures: Global Perspectives (pp. 23-44). Manchester: MMU Sport and Leisure History
Derks, M.E.B. (2019). In de ban van de ring. Boksen als omstreden cultureel erfgoed, Nijmegen 1911-1942. Jaarboek Numaga, 66, 32-53.
Derks, M.E.B. (2019). The contested allure of ‘negro-boxing’. Harry Sparendam (1897-1942), a Surinamese champion in the East Indies and the Netherlands. In N. Pas, Y. Gastaut & P. Delheye (Eds.), Who’s who? Les champions sportifs à l’épreuve des colonisations et des migrations / Sporting champions’ encounter with colonization and migration (pp. 29-44). Bécherel: Éditions Les Perséides
Derks, M.E.B. (2018). Sports, pastimes. Introductory survey essay. In J. Leerssen (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (pp. 72-75). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press doi: 10.5117/9789462981188/ngCJ9s46oEJYmNpDVC5Y6Jbm
Derks, M.E.B. (2018). The "negro boxer" as contested cultural icon. Black migrants and sport in pre-war Europe. In P. Puschmann & T. Riswick (Eds.), Building Bridges: Scholars, History and Historical Demography. A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Theo Engelen (pp. 198-217). Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers Full text
Derks, M.E.B. (2018, July 18). Winning the Hearts of the People : The Trim Action, a Transnational Inspired Sportive Intervention in the Netherlands, 1960s-1970s. Münster, 19th Conference of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport.
Derks, M.E.B. & Rodenburg, E. (2017). A Bastion against Assimilation? Jewish Sport in the Netherlands, 1890-1940. Aschkenas. Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden, 27 (1), 109-126. doi: 10.1515/asch-2017-0008 Full text
Derks, M.E.B. (2017). Debating the Council on the Air. Media, Personality, and the Transformation of the Dutch Church. In K. Sprow Cummings, T. Matovina & R. Orsi (Eds.), Catholics in the Vatican II Era. Local Histories of a Global Event (pp. 206-225). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Derks, M.E.B. (2017). Modern Crusaders. The Conservative Catholic Politics of Resistance in Post-Conciliar Netherlands. In A. von der Goltz, B. Waldschmidt-Nelson & R. Orsi (Eds.), Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United states. Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s (pp. 227-247). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Derks, M.E.B. (2017). Nette vrouwen zweten niet. Sportvrouwen van marginalisering naar profilering. In M. Prange, M. Oosterbaan & R. Orsi (Eds.), Vrouwenvoetbal in Nederland. Spiegel en katalysator van maatschappelijke veranderingen (pp. 37-59). Utrecht/Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Klement/Atria
Derks, M.E.B. (2017). Sport in (post)koloniaal perspectief. De Sportwereld, 82/83, 4-10. Full text

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Prof. M.E.B. Derks (Marjet)

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