Maryse Kruithof MA

Biographical Note

My name is Maryse Kruithof (1988) and I completed the Master ‘Global History and International Relations’ at the FHKW in September 2010. I also studied for my  Bachelor `Social History´ in Rotterdam. I graduated on the biography of the Dutch missionary Carel Poensen by Prof. Dr. Dick Douwes. For thirty years Poensen worked with the Islamic population of Java, Indonesia. While writing my thesis I came across a lot of material where practically no research had been done. I also became extremely interested in the tension between the Christian missionaries and the local Islamic population and wanted to continue researching this subject after graduating. The ‘Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies’ (NISIS) enrolled five PhD candidates that summer to research Islam or Islamic communities.

Eventually I got through the various selection procedures and have been working since October 2010 for the NISIS and at the ESHCC. I carry out research on the developments in the dialogue between the lay and clerical missionaries and the Islamic population on Java using the ego documents of six lay and clerical missionaries. I want to investigate why the missionaries failed in the end and in what obstructions and protest they came across in their work. I am also a member of the cap-group “Non-Western History”  and supervise work groups for the first year subject “Introduction to History of the Non-Western Societies”.

My room is L3-075 and you can reach me via kruithof@remove-this.eshcc.eur.nl.