Ilja Nieuwland, M.A.

Graduate Researcher, VU University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Den Haag, Netherlands

Research field: Humanities - History
History of science, History of paleontology, history of geology, German history, Portuguese history

Publications

Journal Article (5)
- Ilja Nieuwland (2010) The colossal stranger. Andrew Carnegie and Diplodocus intrude European Culture, 1904–1912, 61-68. In Endeavour 34 (2).
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- Ilja Nieuwland (2006) Book Review: Lustig, A., R.J. Richards & M. Ruse. Eds. 2004. Darwinian heresies. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, and: Shanahan, S. 2004. The evolution of Darwinism. Selection, adaptation and progress in evolutionary biology. Cambridge, Cambridge. In PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology.
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- Ilja Nieuwland (2004) Gerhard Heilmann and the Artist's Eye in Science, 1912-1927, 10-18. In PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology.
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- Wei Ji Ma, Ming San Ma, I J J Nieuwland et al. (2002) Why Archaeopteryx Did not Run over Water, 51-56. In Archaeopteryx.
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- Ilja Nieuwland (1998) 'The earliest Englishman': de vervalsing van Piltdown, 41-50. In Groniek.
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Book (3)
- André J. Veldmeijer, Mark Witton, Ilja J.J. Nieuwland (2012) Pterosaurs. Flying Contemporaries of the Dinosaurs, 134. In Sidestone Press.
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- Teunis Willem Van Heiningen (2011) The Correspondence of Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854).. In DWC.
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- Teunis Willem Van Heiningen (2010) The Correspondence of Sebald Justinus Brugmans (1763-1819). In DWC.
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Book Section (5)
- Ilja Nieuwland (2012) 'The Wandering Friend': Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur Invades Europe, 1902-14, 219-235. In Popular exhibitions, science and showmanship, 1840-1910.
- Ilja Nieuwland (2011) Pterosauriërs: onze relatie met een buitennissig dier. In Pterosauriërs: vliegende reptielen uit de oertijd.
- Ilja Nieuwland (1999) 1799: Prelude tot een invasie, 9-22. In De lange herfst van 1799. De Russisch-Engelse invasie in polder en duin.
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- Ilja Nieuwland, Jürgen Luh, Hans Van Koningsbrugge (1999) Koningsbrugge, Hans van, Jürgen Luh & Ilja Nieuwland. 1999. “Sparta oder Spree-Athen? Die auswärtige Politik Preußens im Zeitalter Friedrichs III./I. von 1688 bis 1713, 130-140. In Sophie Charlotte und ihr Schloß. Ein Musenhof des Barock in Brandenburg-Preußen.
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- Ilja Nieuwland (1997) Trés cher Nicholas. Dutch-Russian Dynastic Relations around the Belgian Uprising, August to December, 1830, 42-47. In Around Peter the Great. Three Centuries of Russian-Dutch Relations.
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Awards and Grants

Dec 2011

Dutch Science Foundation Book-writing grant View website
Sep 1996

DAAD View website

Biographical Information

Digger of fossils, listener to music by obscure composers, ravisher of Type, cycler of eight daily kilometers to the Huygens Institute, and eight back, reader of sombre Scandinavian thrillers, Frisian fundamentalist with tongue firmly in cheek, watcher of British comedy, annoyingly critical user of all that is Apple and collector of their older machines, eater of foods, drinker of beers (particularly German wheat beer), lamenting departer of Berlin, satisfied inhabiter of a seaside (or nearly so) apartment in The Hague, Netherlands but seriously considering moving to Lisbon.

CV

Professional Experience

2011 - Present

Graduate Researcher at VU University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Exact Sciences
Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010 - Present

International Officer / Secretary at Museums and Galleries History Group
London, United Kingdom

2008 - Present

Researcher & Editor, History of Science at Huygens ING, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Huygens ING
Den Haag, Netherlands

2003 - Present

Editor at PalArch Foundation
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Oct 2002 - Feb 2008

Researcher / Editor / Copywriter at Freelancer
Groningen, Netherlands

Mar 2002 - Dec 2007

Reviewer (classical music) at 8Weekly Web Magazine
Groningen, Netherlands

Jan 2001 - Aug 2009

Various at Noorderzon Festival
Groningen, Netherlands

Sep 1999 - Feb 2001

Course developer and teacher at HOVO (Senior Citizens' Academy)
Groningen, Netherlands
Classes taught:
Europe in the Fin-de-Siècle
The History of Berlin
Sicily as a case for Braudel's Longue and Brève Durée

Sep 1998 - Aug 2002

Graduate researcher (OIO) at Groningen University / NWO
Groningen, Netherlands

Oct 1997 - Aug 1998

Conference organiser / Proceedings editor at INOS
Groningen, Netherlands

Sep 1996 - Dec 1997

Ph.D. Student/Collaborator at Universität Potsdam - University of Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany

Education

2010 - Present

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ph.D.

Sep 1990 - Sep 1996

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - University of Groningen in Groningen, Netherlands
M.A. in History

Sep 1989 - Aug 1993

Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - University of Groningen in Haren, Netherlands
Studies for M.A. in Biology

Consulting Services

* Concert- en Congresgebouw De Doelen, Rotterdam (De Doelen Concert Hall)
* Genootschap Gewina (Netherlands Society for the History of Science)
* Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap (Royal Netherlands Historical Society)
* Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, the Netherlands
* Sterling Records, Stockholm